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Most of my lilies simply disappeared over the winter. I had a dozen or more in a 50' x 8' perennial bed (mixed with other flowers). Different colors, Asiatics and others. Some of them have been around over a decade. Most are many years old.
We had one night where the temp dropped below 20 below. I saw no evidence of moles. Sometimes there are a lot of tunnels visible in the yard nearby, but not this year. Every fall I water in mole repellant. Other perennials are fine, delphiniums, poppies, columbine, Cranesbill. But now that I think about it, no perennial dianthus survived. I usually lose about half of those.
Moles and gophers haven't eaten my lilies, although they eat and kill just about anything else.
I can grow daylilies and they survive, but none of the Asian or other lilies make it through the cold of winter. I'm resigned to daylilies and am now collecting the different colors.
My iris do OK, but the bloom season is so short. The daylilies keep on blooming for a longer time period
Asiatic are supposed to be good to zone 3, but that hasn't been my experience. I've tried putting them into pots and sheltering them over the winter and that didn't work either. Other than that, this last winter killed a lot of plants that had been surviving just fine through previous winters.
Moles are carnivores. They aren't rodents even. They may lift plants while tunneling in search of prey but they don't eat them.
Voles do though. They are essentially burrowing mice. They wreaked havoc in my perennial flowers, including lilies, and killed several young apple trees this winter under cover of snow. I'm in central New England.
I hate voles. I've been replanting inside wire baskets.
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