Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[fermi de Sousa]

                    
When tulip time is almost over, growers sometimes show flowers which
give some reasons for discussion.
Personally I don't know if anybody is waiting for this.

Tulipa La Bizarre                               
Tulipa Evergreen                             

Well,  at least they are appropriately named!
cheers
fermi

[Boyed]

When tulip time is almost over, growers sometimes show flowers which
give some reasons for discussion.
Personally I don't know if anybody is waiting for this.

Tulipa La Bizarre                               
Tulipa Evergreen                             

Luit,
Thanks for showing the photos of these curious tulips. Personally I am not a lover of odd-ball tulips, but some, which don't lack taste, appeal to me. The example, is tulipa viridiflora 'Omnyacc'.
Relating green tulips, I grow some interesting totally or almost totally green tulips, icluding 'Evergreen' as well. In the garden they can be lost among others if appropriate light background is not provided, but they are perfect indoors in flowers arrangments, besides, last very long. I don't grow 'La Bizarre' so far and was not familliar with this tulip, but would like to grow it very much. It has very interesting anemona-shaped flower, almost green version of tulipa 'Omnyacc'. Though I grow old breeder tulip 'La Bizarre', which is now not in the register, because was lost in Holland.

[Lvandelft]

Though I grow old breeder tulip 'La Bizarre', which is now not in the register, because was lost in Holland.

No one does remember this one here, though in the late tulips was a group called "Bizarre", amongst "Rosen" and "Breeder".

[Lvandelft]

Some pictures of plants shown this week:
Narcissus bulbocodium                                       
   I counted six stems per bulb!   
Narcissus plenus
   syn. :Narcissus Albus Plenus Odoratus                               
Hyacinthoides vicentina                                       
Scilla litardierei                                           
Hyacinthoides algeriense                                         
Incarvillea Bees' Pink                                         
Iris [CH] Broadleigh Angela                                     
Rhodohypoxis     

[Lvandelft]

Allium karataviense ssp. henrikiii Red Globe               
Allium darwasicum                                           
Lilium Garden Affaire                                           
Lilium Tessa                                                     
a very early Paeonia hybrid:
Paeonia Linda Roos

and the last picture is of some very late double tulips
 

[Lvandelft]

This week I noted the following plants at the Show:

Paeonia Command Performance
Thalictrum kiusianum                               
Athyrium Ghostmaster                           
Fallopia japonica var. compacta Sel                   
Allium protensum   

A Camassia performing nice in early spring with variegated leaves:
 
Camassia leichtlinii Alba 'Sacajewa' 1               
Camassia leichtlinii Alba 'Sacajewa' 2   

[Lvandelft]

Some Dutch Irises:

Iris holl. Montana 1                                   
Iris holl. Montana cl   
Iris holl 

And a special one with nice marked falls

Iris holl. 1                                     
Iris holl. cl                                       

And finally three pictures of one of the last tulips this season:

Tulipa sprengeri

[annew]

T sprengeri is such a lovely tulip. Thank you for continuing to bring us these, Luit.

[Lesley Cox]

Some interesting plant there Luit. I really like the Scilla and Hyacinthoides very much. In patches of solid blue like that they are very appealing.

I don't know Fallopia at all. It looks as if it is related to Polygonum/Persicaria/Tovaria? like the 'Painter's Palette' which I lost some time ago - too dry. Also looks like a low, shrubby version of the variegated Aktinidia kolomikta. Lost that too, to neighbour's damned cats. I had one good big plant ready to plant out and half a dozen seedlings from which I hoped to get both sexes. The cats unpotted the lot and apparently ate them! 

[Diane Clement]

I don't know Fallopia at all.

I'm not sure you want to - Fallopia japonica is Japanese knotweed.  
I don't think it will be on your permitted list Lesley      

[Lvandelft]

Thanks for explaining Diane. I was just thinking about how I could translate my thoughts on 'paper'.
You've done it much faster and easier and hit the nail.! 
I would never plant it in my place!
BTW the man who showed it has it always in a pot!!!

[Lesley Cox]

I don't know Fallopia at all.

I'm not sure you want to - Fallopia japonica is Japanese knotweed.  
I don't think it will be on your permitted list Lesley      

Well yes, and no.
F. aubertii and F. convolvulus are permitted as seeds (plants, "requires assessment.") but F. japonica and F. sachalinensis are specifically prohibited, both as seed and as plants. But I can look and admire can't I? without actually wanting.

[Lvandelft]

Three weeks ago on the day before I left for a short holiday I made some
pictures at the Show.
There was a great variety of Allium this day, as they were specially asked
for to send in by the growers.
 
Allium unifolium               
Allium unifolium Selection
Allium hyalinum
Allium oreophilum Kuramin's Dwarf       
Allium oreophilum Agalik's Giant               
Allium convallarioides Pink                     
Allium cernuum White Dwarf             
Allium pallasii                           
Allium Seedling

[Lvandelft]

Allium     
Allium stellatum                   
Allium schoenophrasum Mix         
Allium rotundum ssp. jajlae                   
Allium ramosum                           
Allium falcifolium                             
Allium crenulatum                             
Allium crenulatum x falcifolium                             

[Lvandelft]

Allium carolinianum                           
Allium amplectens Sel. wit               
Allium dirixum                           
Allium chloranthum                       
Allium moly
Allium moly Jeannine                     
Allium litvinovii