Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[arillady]

Hi Lesley yes it is on ICON and my lack of allium knowledge is shining brightly!!!

[Lvandelft]

Firstly there were two vases with yellow flowering Polyanthus.
One vase with a short form which could be useful pot production in pots
and one vase with long stemmed flowers.

Polyanthes tuberosa yellow form [short form]   
Polyanthes tuberosa yellow form cl             
Polyanthes tuberosa yellow form

[Lvandelft]

Then an entry with a beautiful vase of Belamcanda.
I for myself never saw flowers of this plant in such super quality.

Belamcanda chinensis 

[Lvandelft]

some other entries:

Allium acuminatum                             
Arisaema candidissimum

[Lvandelft]

and finally a flowering stem of a cross made of Eremurus indiriense with E. stenophyllus. Interesting is that the flower stem stays shorter than the stems of both parents:

Eremurus indiriense x E. stenophyllus

[Lvandelft]

Lots of entries with Triteleia this week, I picked out just a few to show here:

Triteleia Phantasio     
Triteleia Royal Blue     
Brodiaea californica

[Lvandelft]

Some nice pots with Fuchsia:
 
Fuchsia Aad Franck     
Fuchsia New Millennium

[Lvandelft]

And a mixture of bulbous flowers.
Interesting to see this time a vase with pinkish Polianthes after we had seen yellow ones a few weeks ago:

Hymenocallis harrisiana
Lilium Red Velvet
Allium scabriflorum
Polianthes tuberosa   

[annew]

The double Triteleia is very pretty, and I'm not usually keen on doubles!

[Maggi Young]

The double Triteleia is very pretty, and I'm not usually keen on doubles!

I thought that too, Anne -  but I was so busy imagining the scent of the beautiful Polianthes that I couldn't type.....

[Lvandelft]

The double Triteleia is very pretty, and I'm not usually keen on doubles!

Anne, I presume you meant the flowers of T. Royal Blue? Although I could never understand people saying ”I don’t like any double flowers” ,
there are some I don’t like much myself but that is more because some flowers with many petals are in my eyes really unattractive.
The Tritelia Royal Blue is an older form and has rather nice formed flowers. The breeders are trying to make Triteleia with long stems and many (up to 40) flowers per stem making attractive bunches for the cutflower industry. The here showed cv. Phantasio looks nice from a distance but looking nearer the separate flowers are a bit deformed 
Here a close up:

[Lvandelft]

I start this week's report with a verydark flowered Allium.
then there were the may be not so showy but always interesting Arthropodium
and a pot full of a compact Agapanthus
 
Allium Red Mohican                 
Arthropodium candidum   
Arthropodium candidum Purpureum               
Agapanthus Thumbelina           

[Lvandelft]

A special stage was there with Gladiolus nanus. Amongst them the beautiful but aged (from 1946) var, Atom:

Gladiolus nanus       
Gladiolus nanus Robinetta         
Gladiolus nanus Charm             
Gladiolus nanus Prins Claus       
Gladiolus nanus Atom     

[Lvandelft]

and this week again vase with another newly raised Polianthes:

Polyanthes red                 
Polyanthes red cl.       

[Lvandelft]

Finally a pot of Allium, acquired in Germany from Dr. Hans Simon as A. griffithianum, with the question for the right name. Hopefully Mark McDonough is able to help?
 
Allium 1                         
Allium 2