Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[Lvandelft]

Thank you all for your comments. It's good to know that you don't (just) have a look at my pictures, but criticize me when I write some rubbish. That keeps me sharp, which again is good to repress the eventual Alzheimer  
This week I pictured only bulb flowers!  

We were very much surprised to see flowers of a Muscari after the longest day of the year.

Muscari Etude

And we saw some breeding improvements in  Dichelostemma.

Dichelostemma ida- maia            
Dichelostemma Red Empire            
Dichelostemma Red Princess              

And I picked some cultivars out of a big entry of Triteleia.
I showed some more last year already.  http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1315.msg48237#msg48237

Triteleia Pink Heaven          
Triteleia Powerpoint            
Triteleia Ellen

[fermi de Sousa]

Luit,
these are very impressive pics  - I love'm all!
Who is breeding the Triteleia? Do you know which species have been used? The "Powerpoint" one certainly is a different shade to what I've seen before.
cheers
fermi

[Paul T]

It is, isn't it Fermi (although I only grow one or two, I haven't seen pics of that colour before).  I am particularly taken by the Muscari Etude though.  Fantastic flower colouration!!  And such wonderful leaves for a Muscari to. 

[ranunculus]

I think I would plump for Triteleia 'Ellen' ... such a delightful flower.

Many thanks (as always), Luit.

[Lesley Cox]

That Muscari is certainly a most unusual colour for the genus. Hope it reaches the commercial world soon, and maybe finds its way to li'l ol' NZ.

[Lvandelft]

Luit,
these are very impressive pics   - I love'm all!
Who is breeding the Triteleia? Do you know which species have been used? The "Powerpoint" one certainly is a different shade to what I've seen before.
cheers
fermi

Fermi, the Triteleia are bred by a growers combination, known as group under the name: The Revolutions.
The selling etc. is done by one trader, here is the Website:

http://www.boltha.nl

I am afraid it is only in Dutch, but there are some pictures and something
about history and a lot of links to traders etc.
You could try some questions to Mr. Jan van den Berg about the Triteleia breeding.

[Lvandelft]

There were again many entries with Triteleia, but I will start with some other interesting
plants.

Albuca shawii
Albuca nelsonii                     
Phlox Jessica                 
Allium Dready 1                         
Allium Dready 2                       
Brodiaea Babylon                       
Triteleia laxa double Seedl.                     
Triteleia peduncularis x bridgesii             
Triteleia Yellow Star                       
Triteleia Waterfall

[Paul T]

Beautiful Trits, Luit.  And that Allium is rather strange with it's dreadlocks.    Cool.

[Ragged Robin]

The Triteleia look amazng, Luit, and the flowers so perfect - I have the more ordinary Queen Fabiola flowering in the raised bed at the moment in their 3rd year.  They take ages to come in to flower with the leaves first but I love the way they grow and hold their heads up to the sun, great blue too   

[David Nicholson]

What beautiful Brodiaea and Triteleia selections Luit. The thing I find odd, having seen so many of the beautiful selections you have photographed for us, is that I never see them in the catalogues of the specialist bulb suppliers because they do not, in the main, interest their market, but nor do I seem to see them in the garden centres which consistently stock only the common varieties. The breeders must be selling them but they don't seem to get into the British market place.

[Lvandelft]

Thank you all for the nice comments, but the pleasure is on me because I am able to see them all with my own eyes 

David, you can always make some inquiries at the Website I gave above.
If you don't get an answer you might inform me. I see the man almost every week.

[fermi de Sousa]

Luit,
Thanks for the website - something to investigate when I have more time.
And some more fabulous flowers,especially the Triteleia hybrids - but that Allium!  All those bulbils ready to spread across the garden at the first chance they get! Too much like some of the weed species we already have in the country.
cheers
fermi
PS that double T. laxa has the same look as Wahlenbergia stricta "Blue mist"!

[Lvandelft]

Fermi, these Allium are grown for cutflower production here.
I believe these types are all forms of A. vineale and it started with the selection 'Hair', which now is
often offered in bulb catalogues, so this one will follow soon I think.

[Lvandelft]

Special entries of Agapanthus were invited for this week.
There were a lot of entries with flowers in vases and in pots.
For most pot it was a bit early as they were not really flowering, but in a few weeks there is
another special with Agapanthus.
I show just one of the entries in pots to show what we can expect later.

Agapanthus Madurodam
Agapanthus Saville Blue             
Agapanthus Sofie             
Agapanthus Stephanie Charm               

and there were many other entries:

Tulbaghia maritima   
Crocosmia Lucifer       
Cosmos peucedanifolius 1           
Cosmos peucedanifolius 2

[Lvandelft]

and some more:

Dianthus erinaceus var. alpinus
Lilium Pink Tiger 1             
Lilium Pink Tiger 2
Galtonia regalis 1                 
Galtonia regalis 2             
Lilium leichtlinii