Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[Lvandelft]

Tulipa seedlings 1             
Tulipa seedlings 2                 
Tulipa seedlings 3
Tulipa Crystal Star

[Lesley Cox]

It's some weeks since I looked at this wonderful thread, Luit, you do so much here to show us new plants and whet our appetites for something different. Thank you so much for your dedication to this task. It gives so much pleasure to so many.

One combo I especially liked was Clematis marmoraria x petriei with the delightful Muscari 'Peppermint'

[Lvandelft]

It's some weeks since I looked at this wonderful thread, Luit, you do so much here to show us new plants and whet our appetites for something different. Thank you so much for your dedication to this task. It gives so much pleasure to so many.

Thank you for your nice comments Lesley.
We have been away for some weeks, but now back home I am curious what I will see tomorrow at the show.
Hopefully I can make some pictures and certainly will show them here

[Lvandelft]

Not so many entries at the Show this week, but I made some pictures:   
               
Dianthus Whatfield Magenta             
Dianthus Inshriach Dazzler
Phlox adsurgens Wagon Wheel

[Lvandelft]

some bulbous plants:

Scilla peruviana Alba
Gladiolus byzantinus Whistling Jack
Allium schoenoprasum  Corsican White
Oxalis rubra Pink Dream 

[Lvandelft]

and finally probably one of the last tulips of this remarkable cold "spring"
                 
Tulipa sprengeri                         

[TheOnionMan]

Good to see Allium schoenoprasum 'Corsican White', one that I named. Originally I had seed from Richard Dadd (England) of dwarf chives from Corsica, they were most lavender color plants, indeed dwarfs only about 6" tall (15 cm), but one was pure white and particularly dwarf, and I named it 'Corsican White'.  I used to have this plant by the hundreds, but through the years I have actually lost it.  The plant shown looks like it must have been vegetatively propagated, as it looks very close to the original, versus being seed-grown which results in all kinds of variations.

[Lvandelft]

Mark, thank you very much for this valuable information.
I saw this plant last week in a small nursery in Switzerland where it was since many years vegetatively propagated. I liked the very compact form and the nice clear colour, which is not very much different from other albino forms. So because I thought that it was not offered in my country I acquired some plants and took it on Monday to the Show for informative reasons.
I also found out that it is for sale in Germany,  but the descriptions give rather different heights....??, therefore probably mostly propagated by seed?

[Lvandelft]

The Show Hall was this Monday totally filled with flowers.
There were mainly alliums because there was a special competition.
Forumist Wietse alone brought more than 100 !! entries.
An enormous performance which must have cost him the whole weekend, picking so many flowers
   
Allium 1                     
Allium 2                 
Allium Ambassador

[Lvandelft]

Allium przewalskianum   
Allium Atlas                 
Allium Universe

[Lvandelft]

Allium 3
Wietse   
He also showed some nice arrangements with Allium flowers:
Allium arr. 

[Lvandelft]

a few pics of other flowers:
Oxalis lasiandra             
Pasitea caerulea                           
Bulbine frutescens Hallmark   

[Lvandelft]

and finally some pics of the special Iris competition:
         
Iris hollandica 1             
Iris hollandica 2             
Iris hollandica 3             
Iris holl. seedl.           

[Lvandelft]

The hall was almost filled with many Iris entries this Monday.
Here some pictures:
             
Iris hollandica 
Iris holl. Lion King     
Iris hollandica Flashlight

[Lvandelft]

     
Iris hollandica Golde Eagle
Iris holl. Pink Panther     
Iris holl. Silvery Beauty