Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[Lvandelft]

Luit, can that really be his handwriting? It seems to give his date of death.

Anne, at least one person who noticed my mistake. 
I noticed the same, when fixing my other pictures and looked at the picture
of the backside again and read mor carefully then.
Did not earlier have time today, to modify my posting.
Will do soon!

[Lvandelft]

This time it was a very interesting show!
In the first batch first some Sternbergia.

Note the twoflowered stem of St. Autumn Gold cl.
The last picture shows a plant which could be as well a St. greuteriana.
But literature is not really clear about this I heard.

Sternbergia spec. Italie       
Sternbergia spec. Italie cl.                       
Sternbergia angustifolia       
Sternbergia angustifolia cl.   
Sternbergia angustifolia Autumn Gold         
Sternbergia angustifolia Autumn Gold cl.       
Sternbergia sicula       
Sternbergia sicula ssp. graeca       

[Lvandelft]

In the next batches I show a collection of Haemanthus Hybrids.

Haemanthus coll.
                 
Haemanthus Hybr. (H. albiflos x H. coccineus) 1   
Haemanthus Hybr. (H. albiflos x H. coccineus) 1a               
Haemanthus Hybr. (H. albiflos x H. coccineus) 2                 
Haemanthus Hybr. (H. albiflos x H. coccineus) 2a                 
Haemanthus Hybr. (H. albiflos x H. deformis) 1               
Haemanthus Hybr. (H. albiflos x H. deformis) 2             
Haemanthus Hybr. (H. albiflos x H. deformis) cl.     

[Lvandelft]

The last picture is a plant where the leaves are more in proportion with the whole plant.
The final goal is to develop plants with good leaves, short stems and good colours.

Haemanthus albiflos Tetraploide vorm       
Haemanthus albiflos Tetraploide vorm 2     
Haemanthus Hybr. 3x (H. albiflos (tetraploid) x H. coccineus) 1               
Haemanthus Hybr. 3x (H. albiflos (tetraploid) x H. coccineus) 1a               
Haemanthus Hybr. 3x (H. albiflos (tetraploid) x H. coccineus) 2           
Haemanthus Hybr. 3x (H. albiflos (tetraploid) x H. coccineus) 2a             
Haemanthus Hybride Bladstand                             

[Lesley Cox]

Maggi, we so often seem to have "two minds with but a single thought" if not "two hearts that beat as one" because the first thing that I thought when seeing the stunning jar of Bessera, was "what a great way to hold them up and display them." I'll certainly use that method for assorted flowers with thin stems and that flop all over the place.

Somehow, a large 4-pack of duty-free Ferrero Rocher chocs found its way into my luggage on Monday!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wow Luit - Great Sternbergia !!!! 
I didn't realize Holland had the long hot Summer this year to give them the baking they need to flower so profusely 

[Armin]

Wow Luit - Great Sternbergia !!!! 
I didn't realize Holland had the long hot Summer this year to give them the baking they need to flower so profusely 

Luc,
maybe the "flower" secret is that all of the Sternbergias are grown in sand

Luit,
thanks for the weekly flower show 

[Lvandelft]

Wow Luit - Great Sternbergia !!!! 
I didn't realize Holland had the long hot Summer this year to give them the baking they need to flower so profusely 

Luc, when Dutch gardeners don't get nice warm weather, they make it.
You should know that...

[Lvandelft]

This time of year every week we see less entries, which is understandable for
the time of year.
But in spite of that, there were some interesting plants to see;

Dahlia Mariska
Allium thunbergii 1       
Allium thunbergii 2         
Chirita sinensis 1   
Chirita sinensis  2 
Chirita sinensis 3     

and a new type Dahlia, which seems to be a good one for cutting and
useful in arrangements:

Dahlia VK 9   

[David Nicholson]

Luit, yet again you improve my education. Chirita is a flower I had never heard of before and it's lovely. Just caught up with your pics of Haemanthus from last week's Show, beautiful.

[Armin]

Luit,
Dahlia Mariska is a real beauty
Thanks for posting.

[Joakim B]

Luit
Lovely plants:)
Are there any cyclamen, crocus or colchicum at the show?
I ask since these might come in mass production so that we in Portugal can enjoy them in 10 year or so. They already exist but making a good thing better is often what we want!

Well done and thanks for showing us.
Kind regards
Joakim

[Lvandelft]

Joakim, there are sometimes other bulbous plants like cyclamen too,
but then I find the quality not so good to make a picture.
Colchicum and Crocus are mostly not cultivated in pots for shows.
This is mostly for economic reasons.
I am just reporting what there is and when I like something I make pictures.
You must consider it is not a show for the SHOW.

[Joakim B]

I thought it was a way for someone with a nice new plant to see if it is worth introducing. So if someone found a nice crocus or cyclamen or a colchicum amongst there plants that they would pot them up and show them off. That new plant could come about as a chance seedlings or spots or with deliberate breeding but I was wondering if the "things to come" of the c, c and c could be seen already now?
Thanks again for taking us there.
Kind regards
Joakim

[Lvandelft]

It is a way to show a nice new plant to see if it is worth introducing Joakim, but you
need the gardener(s) which take the trouble or make a one or two hours driving with
one pot of a Crocus, knowing that he never will get the price in trade, he deserves ...