Mushy tubers

[Sunshine]

I have had these lilies in my pond forever. They always covered the surface til this year. I have 3 on the one side and 1 on the other. The lilies did not come up like they have in the past on the one side. Just a few pads. When I noticed one container didn't come up at all, I pulled it up and dug through the gravel and noticed the tuber was just mush. Is it normal for a tuber to die like that?

 

[addy1]

If it froze and or just decided to die. When my lilies grow new tubers and the old get older they do mush up. I have not had a whole lily die though.

 

[Sunshine]

That side of the pond is 3 feet deep. It didn't freeze. Maybe just got old and decided it was done? lol Weird.

 

[addy1]

Or it did not like the 3 feet, who knows. Plants do what plants want to do. Just like our bees they do what they want to do.

 

[Sunshine]

Yeah, it is weird. They have been there for years. This is an old pick of what they have always looked like til this year.

 

[addy1]

Nice pond!
I have some that are growing great, no flowers, some that have few leaves but tons of flowers. I just look at them and move on with life lol