Mid-Winter-Flower-Show Lisse 2009

[Joakim B]

The lovely if maybe a bit crazy flower arrangement is great and if You know how it should look then one see the elegance in it. I presume all of You does but far from every one not interested in plants do.
Luit these are so great and such a treasure to see such pictures.
A question is growing tulips to be used as bulbs in flower arrangements going away and instead they have tulip cut flowers?
When my mother were young some 50 years ago they had tulips in the Christmas arrangement. Now they are not as common and expensive to be a tulip. The variety with pinkish colour and white top looked very nice. Are they i the trade as plants for christmas new year arrangements?
Great show and great to be able to see it in all Your pics so thanks a lot
Kind regards
Joakim

[Lvandelft]

Luit,
 Did the grower add some notes concerning the ancestory of the plants shown?
It seems there is Helleborus thibetanus involved.
Gerd

Gerd, breeders seldom show which parents they use.
But yesterday the plants were still there in a corner and I could have a look at them.
I think you might be right. A friend of mine promised me to ask the grower about (?).
If so, I'll let you know.

[Lvandelft]

A question is growing tulips to be used as bulbs in flower arrangements going away and instead they have tulip cut flowers?

The variety with pinkish colour and white top looked very nice. Are they i the trade as plants for christmas new year arrangements?

Joakim, I did not quit understand your questions, and have no idea which pinkish tulip you meant too? 

[WimB]

A question is growing tulips to be used as bulbs in flower arrangements going away and instead they have tulip cut flowers?

The variety with pinkish colour and white top looked very nice. Are they i the trade as plants for christmas new year arrangements?

Joakim, I did not quit understand your questions, and have no idea which pinkish tulip you meant too? 

Luit,

I think the thing he means to ask is:

Is there a trend to no longer use 'tulip bulbs that are in flower' in flower arrangements but 'tulip cut flowers' instead?

And the pinkish tulip probably is Tulipa "Cerise-Gris-de-Lin. And he wants to know if they are used in flower arrangements for New Year.

I think those were his questions but Joakim should correct me if my interpretation was wrong.

Wim

P.S. Prachtige foto's, Luit, as always.

[Joakim B]

Luit I was just to try to explain myself when I saw that Wim so perfecly did it for me. Sorry for the not so clear question
I did not remember that Tulipa Cerise-Gris -de-Lin came from horto bulbus and are as such an old varity. I thought that the new tulips are going back to the old style.
Thanks.
Joakim

[Gerdk]

Luit,
 Did the grower add some notes concerning the ancestory of the plants shown?
It seems there is Helleborus thibetanus involved.
Gerd

Gerd, breeders seldom show which parents they use.
But yesterday the plants were still there in a corner and I could have a look at them.
I think you might be right. A friend of mine promised me to ask the grower about (?).
If so, I'll let you know.

Thank you Luit!
Once there was a hybrid thibetanas x niger mentioned - so this is possible.
This is  somewhat strange because it is written that Helborus orientalis is related next
to thibetanus.


Gerd

[Diane Whitehead]

Helleborus niger seems to be a willing mother for interspecies
crosses.

[Lvandelft]

Luit I was just to try to explain myself when I saw that Wim so perfecly did it for me. Sorry for the not so clear question
I did not remember that Tulipa Cerise-Gris -de-Lin came from horto bulbus and are as such an old varity. I thought that the new tulips are going back to the old style.
Thanks.
Joakim

Joakim and Wim, thank you for the explanation.
As English is my 3rd best foreign language, I think it’s always better to ask first before giving some wrong answer.
There are still many Tulips forced in pot for decoration, just the varieties are different.
Here are some which are offered in pots in Garden Centers these days:

Tulipa D.E.G. Monte Carlo             
Tulipa greigii Hybr. Pinocchio         
Tulipa S.E.G. Christmas Marvel   
Tulipa S.E.G. Flair                   
Tulipa Triumph Group Inzell           
Tulipa Triumph Group Prominence   

and the pictures:         

[Joakim B]

Thanks for the information Luit.
I tend to try to say too much and by that complicate things more than needed when I write.
I have not seen any of these nice ones as potted plants but monte carlo is the most sold yellow tulip as cut flower in Sweden I think.
These would be nice in Christmas decoration. Better than the small tiny red ones they sell in Sweden if they do it at all.
Thanks for the lovly pics and sorry for the late reply.
Kind regards
Joakim