Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[Lvandelft]

and finally some other plants:
Lilium Red Velvet
Hermannia stricta   
Crocosmia
Viola stojanovii
Begonia sutherlandii

[Lesley Cox]

Love that deep red lily.

[Maggi Young]

Maybe it is simply the excitement of having a report after Luit's holiday away, but it seems to me that this week's display is particularly  varied and colourful - or maybe it is the contrast to our non-summer!

[Lvandelft]

Could hardly bring myself behind the PC today. Still over 20 C. outside at 23.00 hrs.
Today we were happy to have some wind, but temps over 27 C.
Anyway, here is my posting from last Monday:

Many Gladiolus in all colours:
Gladiolus v
Gladiolus mix
Gladiolus Flevo Effect 1                   
Gladiolus Flevo Effect 2                   

and in all forms:                           
                               
Glamourglads                         
Glamourglads orange

[Lvandelft]

A very nice Dahlia entry with some remarkable new colours:

Dahlia hybr. 1a                             
Dahlia hybr. 2                             
Dahlia mixed                             
Dahlia Rebecca's World                     

[Lvandelft]

The Allium showed here was grown from seed named Allium flavum var. minus.
Interesting is the strange habit.

[Lesley Cox]

I like that almost black Dahlia. The Allium is rather like what I have as A. f 'Minor,' perhaps a little stonger yellow, and after a night out on the tiles.

[Lvandelft]

perhaps a little stonger yellow, and after a night out on the tiles.

My first idea was that it had been growing some days under a heavey plank...

I like that almost black Dahlia

Lesley, the real colour was really blackish, but soooo difficult to photograph 
Had the same difficulty with the orange one. It was in reality a very glowing warm orange.

[Lvandelft]

This week some nice flowering pots Agapanthus and one vase with high quality flowers.                             
                         
Agapanthus Tom Thumb                             
Agapanthus Thumbelina 
Agapanthus Cas   

[Lvandelft]

a few other entries:

Chasmanthe floribunda Saturnus                   
Gladolus hybr.
Eucomis Leia   

[Lvandelft]

and finally some Dahlia, starting with a hybrid matching with the sport events of this week:

Dahlia Olympiade

[Lvandelft]

and some overviews and a couple of new and still unnamed hybrids:
Dahlia

[Maggi Young]

I love Eucomis 'Leia'- these small Eucomis are most attractive.

Dahlia 'Olympiade' is perfect - There should have a been a  big bunch for  the Netherlands cyclist Marianne Vos when she won her gold medal in the  women's road race the other day 

[Maggi Young]

It is a strange thing _ generally I am not very fond of double flowers but  I am finding these Dahlias most attractive. I think it is the stylised nature of them when shown in these formal vases. I love them 

[Lvandelft]

It is a strange thing _ generally I am not very fond of double flowers but  I am finding these Dahlias most attractive. I think it is the stylised nature of them when shown in these formal vases. I love them 

Maggi, the discussion about liking double flowers is since long times, but with some of these double dahlias the  shape is really consistent and in my eyes no reason to say: I don't like them.
But I agree, there are many double flowers which look ugly, but that's mostly because they are not "finished"
And moreover, some of these big double flowers are just impressive when one is standing vis à vis of them.