Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[Lvandelft]

Monday was a special day for Astilbe and Allium entries.
In this batch I show some of them.
Many others I pictured already last year:

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1315.135

Allium carolinianum                     
Allium caspium                       
Allium cassium var. hirtellum           
Allium nevskianum                           
Allium fistulosum                         
Allium hyalinum                     
Allium litvinovii                     
Allium Universe     
Allium oreophilum Agalik's Giant       

[Lvandelft]

and some of the other entries:

Astilbe
Alstroemeria pulchra var. lavandulacea                                   
Paeonia Command Performance             
Watsonia coccinea     

[Armin]

Luit,
thanks for the alliums photos. This year A. litvinovii is nicely gentian blue - is it a new form?

[Lvandelft]

Better picture, less zoom. This picture is more likely than last year.

[Onion]

Luit,

thanks for the mouth watering pictures 

[Ragged Robin]

This week had Heuchera and Hosta as special themes. I pictured some of both

Heuchera Caramel                     
Heuchera Dark Secret             
Heuchera Peach Flambé             
Heuchera Tiramisu           
Hosta Blue Mouse Ears           
Hosta Ghostmaster           
Hosta Invincible               
Hosta Mighty Mouse               
Hosta Orange Marmelade         
Hosta Whirlwind 

Luit, the colourings of the Heucheras are fabulous (Dark secret my fourite) and the Hostas are really lovely too - foliage plants are so wonderful 

[David Nicholson]

Luit, PLEASE don't mention cricket!

[Lvandelft]

Luit, PLEASE don't mention cricket!

David, please explain....

[ranunculus]

Dear Luit - I'm afraid it will hurt David EVEN more if he is forced to explain in writing how the Netherlands trounced England at one of our national sports, cricket yesterday.  This once popular sport in your country is now 26th in your rankings of national sports - probably on a par with nude karate or tandem pole vaulting!!!  It would, of course, have hurt David EVEN MORE if Lesley had explained this first!!!   

[David Nicholson]

    If Lesley has heard it about I expect we shall get a comment!

[Maggi Young]

I suspect Lesley may be diverted by the fact that the New Zealand team beat the Scots team today!! 

[David Nicholson]

Good.

Lesley being diverted I mean, but, having said that ther's a certain joy at seeing the Scots get (another!) thrashing.

[Lvandelft]

Now I do understand. I had to look at tele text about this. In Holland we only know of cricket, that there are running some white
dressed men with some sort of bat and a ball on a green field, but most of us think that this is a sport for middle-aged men.
Today was tennis and at the moment the Dutch play football on Iceland and that counts more.
Maybe we see two minutes on TV later tonight 

Good.

Lesley being diverted I mean, but, having said that ther's a certain joy at seeing the Scots get (another!) thrashing.

Sound like words spoken by an Englishman     Ooooops...

[Lesley Cox]

Now that you've all finished talking about me in my absence.....
I was of course delighted to hear the Dutch beat the English (wearing orange this time Luit, not white). One always likes the underdog to win. As for the Kiwis beating the Scots, so they jolly well should have.
We'll probably do quite well overall in the competition, until we come to a grinding halt - yet again - against the Aussies.   Then it will be Paul's turn to comment.

[Kees Green]

Hi
Stopped by who? Aussie have been eliminated, I think they were the first team ousted   What a shame that was, oh well they can all go and join Symonds for a quick beer and watch the next State of origin match 
I was happy with both the results, my name  and heritage is dutch and I am obviously from New Zealand and a big black caps fan.
Regards