Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[Lvandelft]

Maggi, actually when I took the picture I was thinking, I might upgrade the Forum
with some Royalty... and our Armin seemed the right man for this.               

Lesley, these weekly shows are mainly for growers or traders to show their products
and novelties, so what you see will only probably be obtainable in future.
As you will know as a seller of plants the trade will only pick up some novelty when they
believe it being a good seller.
You cannot compare this with the AGS or SRGC shows.
And this place is a Tradecenter.
So most flowers are picked.

[Paul T]

Luit,

Great pics as always.  Love those Frits, and that Muscari looks pretty special as well.  Some of the tulips are interesting (while others aren't!  ).  Must be good to see all of these things at the flowershow each week.  As I've said before, thanks so much for showing them to us. 

[Lvandelft]

Some of the tulips are interesting (while others aren't!

Paul I agree with you, I just liked the mutation of T. Dynasty. And the other ones....... ??,
well I'm just reporting to show what's going on. 

[Lesley Cox]

Thank you Luit. The flowers are beautifully displayed.

[Armin]

Maggi, actually when I took the picture I was thinking, I might upgrade the Forum
with some Royalty... and our Armin seemed the right man for this.               

Maggi,
indeed when I saw this tulip I got fascinated.

Luit,
I hope you don't you want me to pay any royalities?
brgds
Prince Armin

[Lvandelft]

I hope you don't you want me  to pay any royalities?
brgds
Prince Armin

maybe some rubies, "Your Highness" ?         

[Armin]

Sir Luit,
here is your ruby!
A giant one!

Your Prince

[Lvandelft]

          

[Lvandelft]

This Monday not so many entries but a grower showed some unnamed
selections of Fritillaria persica.
There was so little light in the hall and not having a tripod there,
the pictures are not so very good.

Fritillaria persica sel 1a             
Fritillaria persica sel 1c         
Fritillaria persica sel 2a           
Fritillaria persica sel 3a           
Fritillaria persica sel 3b       
Fritillaria persica sel 4a           
Fritillaria persica sel 4b         
Fritillaria persica sel. 5 

[Lvandelft]

One grower showed the most black tulip until now and there were the first Paeonia in the show.

Tulipa black   
Paeonia Henri Bockstoce 1       
Paeonia Henri Bockstoce 2         

Note: These Paeonia flowers are real flowers. 

[Lesley Cox]

Superb F. persica Luit. So many forms and even DOUBLES! And that's a tulip I could really fall for.

[ArneM]

Really exciting! I wish I had them all. Does the grower also sell them? 

[Maggi Young]

A really super black tulip... this will be hugely popular, I am sure.
 What a great selection of Fritllaria persica forms...... Ian will like these large stems of flowers

[Lvandelft]

Really exciting! I wish I had them all. Does the grower also sell them? 

Arne, the good ones will come on the market, I'm sure.
Don't know when.

[Boyed]

Luit,

Fritillaria persica cultivars are just increadibly stunning!!! Smashing show-stoppers!

Black tulip looks interesting. There are many, so called, new 'black' tulips offered in trade, but, unfortunately, all have small flowers. I grow the tallest "Queen of Night" and don't get another 'black' variety until I make sure that it has considerably larger flowers than "Queen of Night". Though I have a good substitude for 'black' tulips - near-black "Bucchus", which is tall, large-flowered, extremely good encreaser and virus-resistant.