Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[Lvandelft]

and I finish this week with some summer flowering bulbs:
                           
Gladiolus atroviolaceus                     
Gladiolus atroviolaceus cl.
x Hippeastrelia Red Fair

[Lesley Cox]

Is Glad. atroviolaceus really so blue as that? I've wondered the same when seeing other Forum pictures I'd imagined it as rather closer to magenta.

[Maggi Young]

Those Hostas are absolutely perfect, aren't they? I'm impressed - the growers must have been sitting over them night and day  to protect them from being eaten. 

[Lvandelft]

Is Glad. atroviolaceus really so blue as that? I've wondered the same when seeing other Forum pictures I'd imagined it as rather closer to magenta.

Indeed Lesley, the outside of the flowers is "black"magenta, and the blue is inside but hard to see when in flower in the garden, unless crawling on the ground to see it
An extremely difficult flower to photograph inside, I must say. Walked around with the little vase to several places to try to make some acceptable pictures and made many only to delete them afterwards 

[Lvandelft]

Those Hostas are absolutely perfect, aren't they? I'm impressed - the growers must have been sitting over them night and day  to protect them from being eaten. 

Sounds you have experience in showing plants like these Maggi? Hmmm, I did not mean "sitting over them" 

[Lesley Cox]

Thank you Luit. I see it is on our permitted list so I must keep an eye on the seedlists for it.

[Maggi Young]

Sounds you have experience in showing plants like these Maggi? Hmmm, I did not mean "sitting over them" 

I have a few hostas in the garden... fewer than I used to, because the slug damage made me despair. Now I have a little collection of miniatures (thanks to the Forum)  and I feel I must watch them night and day to protect them!

[Lvandelft]

This year the long cold spring wetter was the reason that the Allium Competition was a bit early and therefore
not so many entries. But the shown quality was excellent!


Allium hollandicum Alba   
Allium karataviense ssp. henrikii
Allium komarowii                                       
Allium nevskianum seedl.                               
Allium Purple Caila                                   
Allium sewerzowii

[Lvandelft]

Allium cupuliferum                                   
Allium Globemaster                                   
Allium triquetrum                         
Allium inconspicuum                                 
Allium jesdianum                       
Allium jesdianum Per Wendelbo                                     
Allium subhirsutum   

[Lvandelft]

One of the last flowering Narcissus, I made a special close-up for the scent                    

Narcissus Albus Plenus Odoratus                   
Narcissus Albus Plenus Odoratus cl         

[Lvandelft]

There was a wonderful vase with Eremurus:
 Eremurus himalaicus

[Onion]

Luit,
what a show for the Onions !! 

Are these entries for cut flowers?

You take the vase and I the Eremurus !

[Lvandelft]

Some flowers of not so often seen perennials:

Amsonia tabernaemontana                               
Iris sibirica
   This is a very strong rich flowering selektion of the late German Plantsman Ernst Pagels,
   best known for his breeding with Salvia and Miscanthus.
I show one picture of this plant in the garden after ca. 15 years.

[Lvandelft]

I finish with a colourful new tulip seedling, a combination of lily-flowered, fringed and viridiflora.                       
                                   
Tulipa seedling

[ranunculus]

Luit - your photos are so good that we don't have to enlarge the image to enjoy the flowers!   I'm worried that you are going to lose heart when you look at the viewing figures, but these are completely misrepresentative of the actual numbers enjoying your posts.
Many thanks once again.