Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[mark smyth]

45 pots of multiple bulbs. I had planned to do a surplus list this year

[johnw]

Luit - A superb show yet again. Thanks.

Mark - I too have had the worst show ever on the potted Nerines.  The frustrating thing is  how does one determine the cause.  If they take 2 years to send up their buds was it last year's dark summer weather that killed the buds, or last winter's new storage at a temp higher than the past, the transplanting last autumn or were they starved the year before and set no buds? Yes, very frustrating!

125mm of rain expected before the end on Sunday night.

N. bowdenii fully out near the house.

johnw

[majallison]

45 pots of multiple bulbs. I had planned to do a surplus list this year

Did you have any survivors, Mark?  I'm interested, because it seems that some hybrids may be a little hardier than those that are pure sarniensis, although none will survive being frozen solid

John, high summer temperatures can also cause nerine buds to abort, so if it has been particularly hot with you this summer, that might've had an effect.

[johnw]

John, high summer temperatures can also cause nerine buds to abort, so if it has been particularly hot with you this summer, that might've had an effect.

Malcolm

We had 3 or 4 hot days in early September but the Nerines were in coolish storage. One hot day in August 2009 - 29c - which most would not consider hot and it cooled off at night.

johnw

[Lvandelft]

Just a few entries this time of year

Nerine bowdenii Wellsii           
Nerine flexuosa Alba     
Nerine Mansellii                 
Nerine undulata   

[angie]

Luit , the nerines are so lovely. I really like the last one Nerine undulate.
I think I shall have to try and get some more nerines, they are so lovely.
Nice to look at on a cold wet morning.

Angie

[Ragged Robin]

I agree with Angie, a ray of sunshine on this awful wet day - I love the red  Nerine sarniensis Mysore such a striking colour

Also the Oxalis anomala is very sweet and the Scilla lingulata pot is fabulous!

[Lvandelft]

I agree with Angie, a ray of sunshine on this awful wet day - I love the red  Nerine sarniensis Mysore such a striking colour

I am glad I could at least cheer both of you up. Here it is dry but grey and just about 5 C.

and the Scilla lingulata pot is fabulous!

No wonder    ( but at this moment flowering is almost over )

[Maggi Young]

Here it is dry but grey and just about 5 C.

Goodness me.... as nice as that, eh? ! 

[Lvandelft]

as nice as that

just nice enough to take some cuttings in the garden and plant them inside    

[ashley]

Yes superb Scilla lingulata
Is it yours Luit?

[Lvandelft]

Yes superb Scilla lingulata
Is it yours Luit?

 

[ashley]

  Thought so.  Beautifully grown.

[Lvandelft]

Just a few entries this week. Very special were 40 different flowers of Nerine bowdenii hybrids in two vases.
The flowers of these hybrids which I showed during the last week came all from outside.
This week the flowers came from glasshouse production.

Nerine bowdenii 40 diff                           
Nerine bowdenii   
Hedychium gaerdnerianum                           
Leucoryne Andes     

[Brian Ellis]

Wonderful vases of Nerines Luit, just the thing to cheer us up on a cold night.