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Have 4 Asiatic lillys in a container for the past 4 years with no problems. Now the leaves at the top appear to be rotting. It started on one and now has slowly spread to the others. I have tried removing the affected leaves but it's still happening.

Could it be all the rain we have had recently?

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I'm Dill the Dog,
I'm a Dog called Dill,
though my tail I'd love to get,
I've never caught it yet.

It could be the rain or it could be lilly beetle. I would try removing the lillies and washing the compost off then inspecting the compost to see if there are grubs, flies or beetles. Cover all chances that's me! Good luck with it and let me know if you save them

It could be the rain or it could be lilly beetle. I would try removing the lillies and washing the compost off then inspecting the compost to see if there are grubs, flies or beetles. Cover all chances that's me! Good luck with it and let me know if you save them

My Mum always warned me about the lilly beetle. You cannot miss it as its bright red and they appear at dusk (usualy as most people would water) I just go around checking and squashing - you need to mind they dont fall before you get them though as they fall on their backs so they are camoflaged by their dark brown belly!

Hubbie got the bug as it were and has been checking more carefully this year. I was always a bit hazy as to what damage the grubs did but he soon found out and we now realise that its the grubs that do the most damage. They hide under leaves and eat and eat and eat! They cover themselves in their own excretion (nice! yuk!) to hide away on the underside of leaves so as soon as you see any leaf damge, look underneath and anialate!

I have heard that if left to their own devices they can decimate a pot of lillie in one season and a whole garden within a couple of years. I even found them on my snakehead fritilia (didnt even realise that was the lilly family) so you need to watch anything thats similar or from the same family.

We havent seen any red ones for a couple of nights now and no grubs lasdt night so we may have won our battle so good luck with yours!

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My lillies are looking fantastic I have a pot of pink ones with about 17 flower buds on some are open and an orange one that has about 20 buds on and are not open yet.
I bought them at b and q pink last year orange the year before for £3.99p each.
I have found Lillie Beetle on them and got rid after asking on here what it was.

I have removed the soggy leaves and the plants have recovered. Ther ahs been no sign of the dreaded lilly beetle this year, so guess I am going to have to put it down to rain sitting in the leaves.

At the end of this season I will be taking the bulbs out of the containers, removing the spent compost and refreshing with new.

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I'm Dill the Dog,
I'm a Dog called Dill,
though my tail I'd love to get,
I've never caught it yet.

I didn't know about Lilly beetle. I will look out for it, thanks for that.