Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[David Nicholson]

Lovely Irises Luit, where on earth do they get the names from though, 'Mickey Sea' indeed

[ArnoldT]

David:

You missed the hidden context.

Mickey Sea

Mickey do.

[David Nicholson]

Story of my life Arnold, I wouldn't see a "context" if it hit me in the face

[Lvandelft]

Some interesting new colour combinations there, Luit.
A recent one to come here is "Eye of the Tiger" http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/iris-tigereye/classid.2000020234/
cheers
fermi

That's good news Fermi. I remember having showed this Iris here for the first time several years ago 

[Lvandelft]

As usual not so many entries at the Show.
Most producers are to busy with getting the bulbs out of the soil.
But this week we saw a nice entry with numerous Triteleia in vases:

Triteleia
Triteleia 4 U                     
Triteleia Silver Queen               
Triteleia Dexter 

[Lvandelft]

Albuca humilis                     
Albuca nelsonii 

[Lvandelft]

and a few Allium from small to huge:

Allium beesianum                       
Allium sikkimense                     
Allium backhousianum

[Maggi Young]

Is the "word" from the Growers that the bulb harvest this year is a good one?

All the Keukenhof bulbs are lifted now too it seems:
"This week our gardeners removed the last bulbs. In September we will start planting more than 7 million new bulbs. "

[Lvandelft]

Is the "word" from the Growers that the bulb harvest this year is a good one?

Maggi, it's a bit early to tell now, but as long as the Dutch are winning at the World Championship most growers will not complain.
BTW, do you know any professional grower of plants and bulbs who's never complaining about their crop   

[Maggi Young]

I thought perhaps the football success so far would make them feel that everything was going to be wonderful this year 

You are right, of course all professional growers and farmers will always complain about their crops - just like gardeners!

[Lvandelft]

After many entries of Triteleia we saw now several Brodiaea

Brodiaea californicum                     
Brodiaea elegans                       
Brodiaea purdyi                   
Brodiaea purdyi cl.

[Lvandelft]

and some new selections:

Brodiaea sel. 1                         
Brodiaea sel. 2   

[Lvandelft]

and
Cosmos peucedanifolius                 
Polyanthes pink

[Lvandelft]

Finally we were surprised with some nice pots of Cyclamen.
The dark form was very difficult to get the colour rigt with the camera, so I made one more with flash.

Cyclamen hed. pink                   
Cyclamen hed. white
Cyclamen hed. dark                   
Cyclamen hed. dark 2                   
                 

[Lvandelft]

Monday there were many entries with Crocosmia. There were many newly bred, but still unnamed cultivars.
Crocosmias give a real colour spectacle when so many vases are shown, but when in vases it's  hardly possible to make good pictures of each cultivar, so I made some collages of mostly close-ups to give an impression of these novelties.

Crocosmia