The little black things you are referring to are called 'bubils' and what those do are right before the plant dies you can pick those off and plant them into the ground for many more lilies.

Thanks SO much! That was driving me crazy! Do you know, for the life of me, I could not find any info on that? I guess if I knew they were called bubils, I would have found something :-) Now I know!

Looks like the foliage from my turk's cap lily, which I think is referred to as a species lily rather than aiatic.

Great, thanks - those are beautiful as well! I'll post more pics when it blooms.

I love the combination of bishops weed and asiatic lilies (great combination) - picture 1.

Kenneth