Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[Lvandelft]

Albuca spiralis
    flowering the second time this year.                                 
Haemanthus albiflos smalbl                       
Chasmanthe duckittii
Hippeastrum Red Lion
   The bulbs were Dutch grown, harvested in 2011 and stored cold.   
                                 

[Lvandelft]

A nameless Begonia was recognised as:
Begonia fuchsioides

[Lvandelft]

A Gloxinia with nice red flowers:

Gloxinia nemantanthodes Evita

[Lvandelft]

and finally some Nerine:
                                   
Nerine sarniensis corusca Major                 
Nerine Virgo                                     
Nerine Joan

[David Nicholson]

An eclectic selection Luit. I couldn't grow Ken Aslet for toffee

[Lvandelft]

Well, nobody is perfect  , but I'm sure you have some other good capabilities David 

[David Nicholson]

Others would tell the truth Luit!

[angie]

Really like Nerine Joan 

David if my Oxalis Ken Aslet doesn't produce one flower this time I am throwing it out 

Angie 

[David Nicholson]

David if my Oxalis Ken Aslet doesn't produce one flower this time I am throwing it out 

Angie, I've thrown out many of them!

[Lvandelft]

a little bit of teasing then ..... we grew them about 10 years ago by the 10.000'nds, before I got ill 

[David Nicholson]

It's OK when you have "The hand of the Master"

[Lvandelft]

This week many entries with grasses:
 
Carex phyllocephala Sparkler     
Acorus gramineus Ogon               
Acorus gramineus Variegatus         
Festuca glauca Azurit   

[Lvandelft]

Cortaderia Golden Fantasy             
Cortaderia selloana Junior           
Pennisetum Princess       
Imperata cylindrica Red Baron                         
Pennisetum alopecuroides Red Head   

[Lvandelft]

and some other entries                           
     
Narcissus serotinus                 
Allium [.] virgunculae  a bigger form than the one shown last year?
Nerine Lady Keane                     
Belamcanda flabellata   
Nerine sarniensis Corusca             

[Lesley Cox]

Really like Nerine Joan 

David if my Oxalis Ken Aslet doesn't produce one flower this time I am throwing it out 

Angie 

Me too Angie. I can grow it like crazy but never even ONE flower in heaven knows how many years. But I can't quite bring myself to dispose of the lot. I'll collect up a dozen large bulbs and dump the rest.

Alberto Castillo suggests resting Oxalis species in black paper bags on a sunny window sill, or something and somewhere that they'll get a good ripening or even baking which should induce flowering. I haven't tried it yet but surely it's worth a go. Of course David your climate may preclude success anyway.

A person I once knew who lived in Dorset, ripened her Cyc. rholfsianum in their pots on the sills over the central heating thingys and had good blooming.