Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[mark smyth]

A miniature Bishop of Llandaff would be great or miniature species

[Maggi Young]

Quote from: Lvandelft on September 19, 2012, 10:05:39 PM

 

   The next plant is not always floriferous in our climate but here a pot with six flowering stems

    Amarygia parkeri Alba       

What a beautiful plant.

This week is a "vintage" selection - so many treasures- very exciting to see them all.

a nice pot with the South African cross berry (kruisbessie)
Grewia occidentalis                 
   

I have only seen this plant once before - a long time ago, as a bonsai - it makes a very fine bonsai subject.
I don't know what family it is in.... 

Edit: I looked it up - Malvaceae - I should have been able to work that out...

[Lvandelft]

 I have only seen this plant once before - a long time ago, as a bonsai - it makes a very fine bonsai subject.
I don't know what family it is in.... 

Edit: I looked it up - Malvaceae - I should have been able to work that out...

Indeed Maggi, it's often grown as bonsai plant.
I saw this plant last year in a friends garden and this year I received a young plant. There are so many buds on a plant but the flowers only last one day. This Monday I saw just enough flowers to take it to the show. As usual on midweek days it has often more flowers 
So I presume this was the last day of the year to show it.

[Lvandelft]

Luit thanks yet again, that Dahlia 'Night Butterfly' is definitely on my 'to get' list.

It was already since 2008 Brian....... You seem to have a steady taste 
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=2484.msg56453#msg56453

Bred and registered by Mr. Geerlings in 2006

[Brian Ellis]

It was already since 2008 Brian....... You seem to have a steady taste 
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=2484.msg56453#msg56453

Bred and registered by Mr. Geerlings in 2006

  So it was Luit, I shall have to do something about it this time!

[Lesley Cox]

A few hybridizers are trying to create dahlias for culture in pots.
Here's a nice example of such short plants:
Dahlia China Dwarf   

These are not especially my thing but I can imagine they would be very popular for balconies, patios etc, much as are alstroemerias in pots, the smaller kinds, bred especially for pot culture, and particularly as they flower for a long time. Actually, I do like that red very much.

[Lvandelft]

This time of year we can enjoy entries with full vases of Nerine and Amarine during several weeks.
These breeding products are grown outside for the cutflower industry.

Nerine Elegance   
Amarine Belladiva                       
Nerine Elegance zalmkleur

[Lvandelft]

The dahlias are slowly coming to the end now and forgive me, but some hybrids shown here, are not really my taste. But if customers would not like them, they would not be at shows 

Dahlia 1                                 
Dahlia 2

[Lvandelft]

since some weeks some nice begonia on the tables:

Begonia grandis ssp. evansiana f. alba   
Begonia grandis ssp. evansiana   

[Lvandelft]

one entry showed us some nice potgrown Liatris. They are sold as Liatris Kobold, but they are actually not true, but just a seed strain with this name.

Liatris Kobold strain   

[Lvandelft]

and finally a few other entries:

Nerine masoniorum
Colchicum Flamenco Dance           
Eucomis comosa Playa Blanca                               
Dahlia 3                                 
Nerine sarniensis Corusca Major
Colchicum cilicicum var purpureum

[Lvandelft]

Some very interesting plants to see at the Show again.

here for a start a caudiciform Oxalis which I never saw before:

Oxalis megalorrhiza [syn. O. carnosa] cl         
Oxalis megalorrhiza [syn. O. carnosa]

[Lvandelft]

some more Oxalis:

the edible Oxalis tuberosa (hardly forming flowers in our climate)

Oxalis spiralis ssp. vulcanicola Sunset Velvet     

Oxalis melanosticta Ken Aslet
It surprises me that this plant in GB on shows still often is called O. speciosa 

[Lvandelft]

Then there was a vase with obviously a new form of Aster novae-angliae, the flowers lacking the normally brilliant colours.
There seems to be a (small) market in the cutflower industry:

Aster Ann Leys 

[Lvandelft]

A broad-leafed Tulbaghia recognised as
Tulbaghia simmleri