By Jeank
United States 
My lily of the valley is not sprouting yet (April 5, 2017). It had a lot of brown rust on the leaves at the end of the season last year and I tried to remove these but I did not pull out the plant. Did this kill it? Or is there still time for it to sprout? I live in Michigan and it is very early spring. Other perennials like pachysandra have grown already.
5 Apr, 2017
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mine isn't showing yet either. But I have trouble keeping it in my garden. the chap over the road is over run with the stuff.
5 Apr, 2017
I live in New York, about the same grow zone as Michigan. My Lily of the Valley is lazy and slow waking up, but it never disappoints. It's early yet, in a couple weeks you will see it emerging. It usually comes up along side my hostas.
5 Apr, 2017
Ours are 6" high with flower buds showing. But two weeks ago they had hardly broken the surface - take heart, they grow very fast once they get started.
6 Apr, 2017
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Here where I live in uk the shoots are aprox six inches high, your climate may be a little different to ours and possibly a little behind, but have a close look and try and carefully scrape the soil back to reveal those purplish bud like shoots, please let us all know how you get on.
5 Apr, 2017