Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[angie]

I also really like the Lycoris 

Each week there are more beauties to marvel at, Luit   

All of these are plants I would LOVE to grow..... but where is the space?   


 

Maggi I have a spare pony paddock are you any good with a spade

Angie

[Lvandelft]

 
                       
Last week I finished with a red Lycoris radiata, so this week I am happy
to start with a yellow Lycoris.  I made 2 pictures of it and the first one shows that
in this hall plants are standing mostly at a difficult place to make good pictures.                 
For the second one I had to move the pot out of the sun, but then it is much less sharp.     
       
Lycoris aurea 1                               
Lycoris aurea 2 

The collection of Colchicum could not get moved but with some photoshopping resulted in a rather satisfactory result.
Colchicum coll.               

The same with the enormous pot of Amarygia with 6 stems which was to heavy to move.

Amarygia x parkeri Alba 1               
Amarygia x parkeri Alba 2               

Cyrtantus elatus Pink Diamond

[Lvandelft]

Since two weeks there was a vase in the hall with Eryngium alpinum and still looking good.

Another difficult one to make a good picture of in this hall, is a rather blackish Dahlia.
I made several ones, but in all of them is the mirror of the windows to see.

Dahlia Black Jack

           
Dahlia Mick's Peppermint     
Schyzostylis Jennifer     
Nerine fothergillii Major             

[Lesley Cox]

That's one stunning Dahlia all right! Black as you hat!

[Rogan]

Fantastic plants Luit, especially the Amaryllis belladonna hybrids / cultivars - I would love to see your pictures of Amarygia x parkeri too, if you don't mind. I grow these plants as well but seldom manage to get them to flower - perhaps in another time or place I will be more successful...

[Lvandelft]

Fantastic plants Luit, especially the Amaryllis belladonna hybrids / cultivars - I would love to see your pictures of Amarygia x parkeri too, if you don't mind. I grow these plants as well but seldom manage to get them to flower - perhaps in another time or place I will be more successful...

Rogan, I doubt if I will ever see Amarygia x parkeri here?  Should this be a pink one?

[Ray]

Hi Luit,great pics as usual,and I would also like to see the pics of Amarygia x parkeri they are not showing up in your post, bye Ray

[Maggi Young]

 
                       
Last week I finished with a red Lycoris radiata, so this week I am happy
to start with a yellow Lycoris.  I made 2 pictures of it and the first one shows that
in this hall plants are standing mostly at a difficult place to make good pictures.                 
For the second one I had to move the pot out of the sun, but then it is much less sharp.     
       
Lycoris aurea 1                               
Lycoris aurea 2 

The collection of Colchicum could not get moved but with some photoshopping resulted in a rather satisfactory result.
Colchicum coll.               

The same with the enormous pot of Amarygia with 6 stems which was to heavy to move.

Amarygia x parkeri Alba 1               
Amarygia x parkeri Alba 2               

Cyrtantus elatus Pink Diamond

Ray's right, Luit, there are no pix of the Amarygia x parkeri showing in your post on the previous page , the one quoted above     

[Lvandelft]

Ray's right, Luit, there are no pix of the Amarygia x parkeri showing in your post on the previous page , the one quoted above     

And I thought that I had already some experience with postings to the Forum 
Don't know what went wrong but here are the pictures.

Amarygia x parkeri Alba 1               
Amarygia x parkeri Alba 2 

Enjoy!

[ranunculus]

Certainly worth a little wait ... many thanks Luit!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wonderful series Luit !! 

The Schyzostylis is my favourite !

[Rogan]

Thanks Luit, really worth the wait!   

[Lvandelft]

Fantastic Luit.

Love the Lycoris but the Amaryllis are also quirw something. How on earth do they flower Lycoris radiata over there? Do they cook them in a greenhouse.  As mentioned before I got bulbs in 1975 from Park Seeds and have never had a flower. Maybe this year.

Be great if you could quiz the grower.

johnw

John, I asked the grower about his culture and he says it is a very easy plant. Just in a short period before flowering they need very much water.
He told me that he some years ago stopped with the culture and in his glasshouse he took his rotary hoe to clean his soil for Anigozanthus plants. After some years he took these out again
because they got too big and then everywhere appeared young Lycoris. He obviously hat chipped them with his machine.
Here are some links where you will see that it might become even a weed in some USA states
Missouri Botanical Garden Bulb Garden:
http://www.mobot.org/GARDENINGHELP/PLANTFINDER/Plant.asp?Code=C535

http://www.gardening.eu/plants/Bulbs/Lycoris-radiata/2534/

escaped into nature:
http://alabamaplants.com/Redalt/Lycoris_radiata_page.html

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/ar/archive/dec05/flower1205.htm

http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=LYRA

[johnw]

Luit - Thanks for the research.  Late last summer I repotted all 60+ bulbs into a 35cm clay pot and gave them full sun all summer until they died down in early August.  They were kept quite dry for the 8 weeks so we will see what transpires.  I will give them a big drink at noon and stand back.

Wonderful shots in the wild.  

It has cooled off here though days are 21+c but the nights chilly. Primulas have recuperated.  On the weekend we pulled the Nerines out of storage only to find one in full flower and several with stems already up 25cm.

thanks again

john

[Ragged Robin]

Love the Nerine fothergillii Major, Luit, what a colour!

For our daughter's wedding in Oct 2006 we mixed the palest pink Schyzostylis in her hand made spray with autumn tinted leaves and they looked stunning - the same plants come up in our garden and flower each year to remind us of that very happy occasion