Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[Lvandelft]

Amongs the other entries there was one with a collection of (newer) Triteleia

Triteleia etc
Hypoxis hirsuta
Muscari comosum Alba

[Lvandelft]

In Hippeastrum there is since some years some development in breeding for garden purposes.
These hybrids seem to be rather winter hardy when planted in the garden.

Hippeastrum garden coll.
Hippeastrum garden coll. 2       
Hippeastrum garden coll. 1

[Boyed]

The Show Hall was this Monday totally filled with flowers.
There were mainly alliums because there was a special competition.
Forumist Wietse alone brought more than 100 !! entries.
An enormous performance which must have cost him the whole weekend, picking so many flowers

What a beautiful show of alliums! Got a great pleasure looking through those wonderful pictures.

[Lvandelft]

Because this Show is merely for the trade most flowers will stay the whole week in the hall to give visitors the opportunity to see how plants/flowers behave after several days.
This Monday there was a vase with a seedling of Allium schoenoprasum standing in the hall two!! weeks. What a surprise to see how beautiful the flowers developed.
For sure one which deserves a cultivar name.

Allium schoenoprasum seedl.

[Lvandelft]

This Monday an Allium was brought without a name. The plant is stiff growing up to about 40/50 cms. with bluish rounded leaves. Supposed was the name Allium altyncolicum.
Hopefully Mark MacDonough will look at this picture and can tell us more?

Allium [altyncolicum] ?               

[Lvandelft]

then we saw a form of Astilbe fom Japan with very nice dark brown leaves:

Astilbe Chocolate Shogun           
Astilbe Chocolate Shogun 2 

[Lvandelft]

probably the smallest Genista was shown as curiosity, together with flowers of an
Alyssum not often seen. The Alyssum flowers always in June/July and is more shrublike growing up to 40 cms.

Genista villarsii   
Alyssum markgrafii 

[Lvandelft]

Another rarity was this Bellevalia, grown from Archibald seeds

Bellevalia aff. crassa JJA 227.205   

[Lvandelft]

an interesting group of x Rhodoxis, amongst them a nice rewarding dark red one:

x Rhodoxis         
x Rhodoxis Mrs. Betsy 

[Lvandelft]

finally some more entries:

Zantedeschia   
Iris xiphium                         
Muscari tenuiflorum                 
Zephyranthes robustus                           
Cyrtanthus brachyscyphus   

[TheOnionMan]

This Monday an Allium was brought without a name. The plant is stiff growing up to about 40/50 cms. with bluish rounded leaves. Supposed was the name Allium altyncolicum.
Hopefully Mark MacDonough will look at this picture and can tell us more?

Allium [altyncolicum] ?               

Hi Luit,

Yes, this looks like Allium altyncolicum, a species recently described, and as you describe, has stiff upright growth of bluish rounded leaves.  You can see the stiff upright growth form here: http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Chives

This is a Siberian species closely allied to chives or Allium schoenoprasum and the related A. ledeborianum.  In growth, the foliage is utterly distinctive, and the flowers typically rather large compared to regular chives.

[Lvandelft]

Mark, thanks so much for this information. The plant was acquired under the name A. griesebachii, (not an existing name in Allium as far as I know) and was found by a Dutch gardener in a German nursery. It is a nice plant and does (until now) not show many seedlings around the stock plant. The few seedlings had the same upright leaves.
It is actually not so blue as the one showed on the PBS pages.

[arillady]

Wow Luit I love that Allium schoenoprasum seedl - now to check ICON to see if it is in Australia and then keep an eye out for seed.

[John85]

Very nice indeed this A.schoenoprasum seedl,but does it comes true from seed?Not sure!
And how to trace it if it has no cultivar name?
May be Luit has some information?

[Lesley Cox]

Surely it would be on ICON Pat. Isn't it just chives? Maybe in a selection but still chives.