Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[Brian Ellis]

This week there were much less entries, but still worth visiting the show:

Worth it just to see the colour of Nerine sarniensis Corusca Major Luit.

[David Nicholson]

Holidays!! Maggi, is our reporter allowed to have holidays, this must be stopped

[Maggi Young]

Holidays!! Maggi, is our reporter allowed to have holidays, this must be stopped

I agree, David, that such laxity is not to be encouraged but the Dutch Master is a very strong character and seems to set great store by such breaks to visit friends and family so I have little option but to wish him bon voyage for his vacations!

(Besides, he always works twice as hard to delight and inform us when he returns    )

[Lvandelft]

Glad David is just the advertising manager and not President of this Club. He sounds rather bossy 

Holidays are looking for a Dutch Master like this. Digging in stony Austrian soil with a pick-axe and planting bulbs....
Nothing to be envious

[Maggi Young]

Oh my, such hard ground  - maybe it would have been easier to give some nice pots to grow them in ? 

[David Nicholson]

Glad David is just the advertising manager and not President of this Club. He sounds rather bossy 

He can't get away with being bossy at home so he has to try somewhere else 

[Lvandelft]

A few bulbous plants from the Show on Monday   

Allium thunbergii                       
Allium virgunculae                     
Oxalis anomala
Colchicum procurrans

[Lvandelft]

   
Crocus ligusticus Milessimo             
Crocus pulchellus Zephyr               
Crocus kotschyanus ssp. kotschyanus

[Lvandelft]

Nerine bowdenii Alba                   
Nerine Isabel                           
Nerine Virgo 

[ashley]

Lovely to see these Luit; thanks

Years ago I bought N. bowdenii var alba but it turned out to be a dirty pink 
Virgo is especially fine.  Presumably it and Isabel are hybrids, and more tender than straight bowdenii.

[majallison]

Ashley, 'Virgo' is a sarniensis type, a winter-grower & therefore not hardy, whereas 'Isabel' seems to be pure bowdenii & has survived the previous two winters in my garden & flowered each year (looking lovely right now).

[Lvandelft]

Thank you Malcolm! You were just a bit earlier with the answer 

[ashley]

Thanks Malcolm.  Looking more carefully at Luit's pictures I can see what you mean. 

[Lvandelft]

Only a few entries this week. The Nerine Red Pimpernel is a very rewarding hybrid with upright flowers and of a gorgeous red colour.

                 
Nerine Red Pimpernel                       
Oxalis hirta                                 
Crocus pulchellus Zephyr 

[Maggi Young]

The Nerine Red Pimpernel is a very rewarding hybrid with upright flowers and of a gorgeous red colour.

Nice one, Luit - wonderful colour and what a neat plant.