Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[Lvandelft]

and finally a nice pot with Romulea and a rich flowering member of the Berberidaceae:

Romulea bulbocodium
Gymnospermium alberti 

[Maggi Young]

Narcissus 'The Alliance' is so cheerful- what every cold windy February day really needs.
The Gymnospermium is a good potful - it seems to be potted in solid sand?

[annew]

Tinus is nice too.

[Brian Ellis]

Of course there were snowdrops to see this Monday     

How nice for you Luit, I love to see the Gymnospermium alberti  on the showbench, a lovely plant.

[David Nicholson]

Lovely colour Luit.

[Lvandelft]

The Gymnospermium is a good potful - it seems to be potted in solid sand?

Maggi, you will have seen many plants at shows. But alas for visitors, it will mostly remain a secret what is inside the pots 

Lovely colour Luit.

David, you make me curious which colour you mean. In future I might make some special pics for you with the color you like,
but please not only white 

[Brian Ellis]

but please not only white 

 

[art600]

Narcissus 'The Alliance' is so cheerful- what every cold windy February day really needs.
The Gymnospermium is a good potful - it seems to be potted in solid sand?

Could it be double potted?

[David Nicholson]

David, you make me curious which colour you mean. In future I might make some special pics for you with the color you like,
but please not only white 

Hi Luit,

It's the intricacies of the English language Luit, or my version of it anyway. Under some circumstances "colour" can be plural and in others it can be singular In this case I meant the colours of all of them, beautiful, even the white ones!

[Lvandelft]

oooh the language again. Hope to remember this , but with my aged brains 

David I saw somewhere that you are getting a bit closer to me, Happy Birthday to you!!
CHEERS

[David Nicholson]

Many thanks Luit.

[FrazerHenderson]

Luit

I was mesmerized by the surface planted tulips and how they had come up so uniform. How do they kep them so upright and straight (I've never achieved such graceful plants)?

Frazer

[Lvandelft]

Luit

I was mesmerized by the surface planted tulips and how they had come up so uniform. How do they kep them so upright and straight (I've never achieved such graceful plants)?

Frazer

Frazer, first of all you must consider  that this particularly weekly show is primarily for growers (bulb-producers)  to show their products and/or novelties to the trade.
Most tulips shown at these shows will be useful  for the cut flower industry. Only last year there were about 1.9 billion tulip flowers sold through the flower auction!
The forcing of bulbs asks for a lot of skill and first of all for the best show result, you have to chose the best bulbs, at least 12 cms. Ø!
The pots at the show are mostly planted with bulbs grown on before in small 7 cms. pots.

With reference to tulips in the garden it is basically the same.  In a show garden like Keukenhof only the bigger bulbs are used.
For the best uniform result always choose bulbs with at least 12 cmsØ. I’m afraid that in supermarkets and many garden centers mostly bulbs are sold with only 10 or 11 cms.

[Boyed]

Frazer,

Some comments also from me.
I am not sure what type of tulips you grow. I grow mainly the ones bred especially for garden decoration. Those shown in the exibition, as Luit mentioned, are bred for cut flower industry with special forcing qualities. So such features as having a neck is a serious disadvantage for such tulips. At the beginning of blooming it is highly valued that their blooms are at the same level with the edges of upper leaf or better when the upper leaf embraces the flower. This prevents the blooms from damage during transportation, and besides the blooms don't tend to bend. So even forced with less skills these tulips will be more likely upright and straight than garden varieties, though they might not come so uniform (I mean when forced with less skill). 

[FrazerHenderson]

Luit, Boyed

Thanks for the information.