Lily bulb help

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I bought some oriental lily bulbs last year from T&M and they did not arrive until quite late in the year (Dec). When they got here they have a couple of inches of growth on them. I planted them out and they continued to grow through winter, with the frosts (predictably) slowly turning them brown then black.

It seems pretty clear by now they won't flower this year. The stems are in varying degrees of disarray from totally rotten through to about 50/50 green and brown.

But what to do? Leave them because they will recover and flower next year? Or lift and dump because they will never come good?

Also, they are Pink Defender because we suffer from red lily beetle and these are meant to be the best at resisting them.

Does anyone know?

Cut back to the ground. Next year they will come back if soil.is well drained. No lily will avoid lily beetles, pick them.off and squash them.

Thanks max. I think they're proving too much trouble and maybe I should find something else that WANTS to live in that spot instead

My lilies are currently completely invisible apart from last year’s dead stems. I am confident they will flower this year as they have done for the last 10

Thanks mere. These aren't dried up dead stems, these are this year's growth that came a bit too early and has been frosted. So they are brown and juicy (for want of a better phrase ).

Without any green, functional foliage I was wondering if they would ever be able to gather and store enough energy to come back next year.

With that and red bettle - even with daily checks they still managed to cause a large amount of damage to the original regale lilies I grow in that spot also - I'm starting to suspect that lilies just don't belong in this garden and that I'm fighting a lost cause.