Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[Onion]

Every Tuesday is a highlight.
Great pictures. Thank you for the work. Learn every week a lot about "new" bulbs.
The Lachenalia is a dream of colour in the cloudy days, we have hear.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great stuff once again Luit !
Scilla litardieri is the one that caught my eye ! Very nice soft blue 

[ranunculus]

Superb images as usual, Luit ... Colchicum trigynum is particularly tasty.

[Maggi Young]

And there was a Dutch raised Galanthus which until now I did
not spot before (But I have not seen so many!)
I would like to know what specialists mean about it, so I will place
the pictures in Galanthus February Thread too.

Galanthus Green Brush 1                 
Galanthus Green Brush 2   

Luit, even I can see this is a truly different snowdrop ..... I think it is very smart indeed.

The yellow hyacinth is rather pretty ..... I don't think I have seen these offered here .....but they would be a cheery addition to indoor flowers at this time.

[Lvandelft]

Thank you all for your support.

Every Tuesday is a highlight.
Great pictures. Thank you for the work. Learn every week a lot about "new" bulbs.
The Lachenalia is a dream of colour in the cloudy days, we have hear.

Uli, I'm happy to see that "Staudenfreunde" like my topic too.
Amazing that you as tree specialist are leading a Bulb Group! 

[Rogan]

"..... I think it is very smart indeed."

Here we desperately seek out unusual flowers and then try our darnest to turn them green so that they look like leaves! 

Heh, heh! I must admit to growing the occasional green flower myself and then parading it around insisting that it is extremely beautiful and unusual! 

Thanks for the weekly flower show Luit, it is extremely interesting.

[Onion]

Luit,

I lift up my hand 5 years ago and so I'm leading that group. So I need lot of information about bulbs.
And where can you find this? In the SRGC, in the logs from Ian and Wisely, in the weekly Lissie flowershow and so on ...
And I hope to learn a lot of new things about my love the bulbs.

[Lvandelft]

This week I made the following pictures.
The Ornithogalum could become an interesting plant for
forcing in pots. Here is shown one bulb per pot.
They can be forced very quick and don't need much warmth.
The one here were kept a bit too warm, otherwise they are
very short, like O. balansae in the garden.
I made one close up because I wanted to show the "fimbriatum"
on the leaves, but I would have needed a better lens.
I hope you can see what I mean though.

Ornithogalum fimbriatum 1             
Ornithogalum fimbriatum 2

Narcissus Mite                     
Narcissus Small Talk             

Of the first new tulip there were several pots.
I liked this special colour.
           
Tulipa 92.220.118.02 1               
Tulipa 92.220.118.02 2                 

Tulipa Ayers Rock 1               
Tulipa Ayers Rock 2               
Tulipa Quest 
Tulipa Enkhuizen             

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi Luit,
I'd not heard of a fringed tulip called "Ayer's Rock" before! I wonder if they'll be required to change the name to "Uluru" in keeping with the tradition in Australia to revert to indigenous names? 
As always a great selection of blooms for us to enjoy.
cheers
fermi

[Lvandelft]

Here is my selection of this week:

Narcissus Gold Medal   
Cyclamen persicum Rhodes Form 1         
Cyclamen persicum Rhodes Form 2   
Corydalis schanginii ssp. ainii             
Tulipa White Flag         
Scilla mischtschenkoana
Heloniopsis orientalis             
Tulipa Jimmy                 
Tulipa X Factor 

[Lvandelft]

Yesterday I selected the following pictures.
First two of a Alan McMurtrie reticulata hybrid.
It was not possible to do justice to the right colour, but I tried.

A small Tazetta Narcissus
and some interesting Tulipa of which the Lily flowered Fire Wings
with its colours might give good feelings on a grey sunless day.

Iris 87-BB-1 a         
Iris 87-BB-1 b               
Iris winogradowii               
Narcissus Idol 1               
Narcissus Idol 2               
Tulipa Colorado             
Tulipa Fire Wings
Tulipa Ice Lolly             
Tulipa Tom Pouce         

[Martin Baxendale]

The colourings on those tulips really are quite luscious, Luit.

[Lvandelft]

The colourings on those tulips really are quite luscious, Luit.

And some colours are a bit sweet Martin. No wonder, with the name Tom Pouce the breeder
was probably inspired by a sweet Dutch patisserie, inside cream colour and topped with pink 

[Martin Baxendale]

The colourings on those tulips really are quite luscious, Luit.

And some colours are a bit sweet Martin. No wonder, with the name Tom Pouce the breeder
was probably inspired by a sweet Dutch patisserie, inside cream colour and topped with pink 

I do find flower colourings that look edible very enticing! 

[fermi de Sousa]

Luit,
some delicious pics there of these delicious flowers!
Alan McMurtrie's retic hybrids are amazing and I'm sorry they aren't so accessible to those of us in this hemisphere!
cheers
fermi