Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[ashley]

Sometimes I think that it's really a privilege to have the possibility visiting these interesting shows almost every week.
Most of the times we see some new and/or very interesting flowers.

And thank you for bringing so many of us along with you Luit

I presume that hyacinth has a boss of dark stamens, almost like an anemone or ranunculus.  Certainly different and rather eye-catching. 
Nice tulips too; I wonder how intense the colour would be when grown outdoors.

[Lvandelft]

And thank you for bringing so many of us along with you Luit

I presume that hyacinth has a boss of dark stamens, almost like an anemone or ranunculus.  Certainly different and rather eye-catching. 
Nice tulips too; I wonder how intense the colour would be when grown outdoors.

Glad you like it Ashley!
The tulips were grown outdoors and when you see a field with these dark flowers from far away, you will definitely stop and have a better look.
From farther away they really look black, but going closer the black becomes less intensive, but since some years the breeder has made some huge improvements in black tulips like the old Queen of Night.

[Lvandelft]

This week there was little news at the show and I made no pictures there.
Thinking od Ashley's question last week I made instead visit to the place where the breeder is trying to improve "black" tulips.
Blackis rather difficult to photograph and you'll see on some pics that taken from farther away the colors are darker.
From nearby many flowers are more purple, but some are close to black though...
Enjoy.

Searching for black tulips:
   
Tulipa "black"         

[Lvandelft]

some more

[Maggi Young]

With such a white style the black tulips look very special indeed.
The mixture of colours  in the fields seems to make the black ones really stand out - very dramatic.

[ashley]

Those are amazing Luit    
I can really see what you mean about the development beyond deep purple.

Seeing those fields awakens a life-long ambition to spend time wandering in the Dutch bulb-fields, and perhaps see something of the practicalities of bulb breeding and commercial production.  It's not far away but somehow this time of year has always been too busy for me to make the trip.  One day ...

[Lina Hesseling]

Luit, thank you for your weekly reports about what is shown at the KAVB Flower Show.
Last week I was very lucky. Wim Grenneman invited me, together with a small group of my gardenfriends, to visit the collection of historic bulbs of Cees Breed. You made a great topic here on the forum about his collection.
It was great to see Cees Breed still working in his field, using his special tool to lift sick bulbs.
Wim also showed us his own collection of 1000 bulbglasses. (Is this the correct name for it?)
And we did visit a field where new bulbs were selected. ( I just looked at my pictures, and it was the same field, and the same day.)
You can imagine, we had a great time.

Lina.

[Lvandelft]

Lina, thank you for your kind words!
How nice that you made a visit to Cees, I’m sure you will have liked it there.
To see so many tulip  cultivars at one spot is really unique. This year his collection is also filmed by Japanese Television and will be broadcasted in Japan somewhere in May.
I wonder if you made pics and if so, it would be nice when you could show some here on these pages because many visitors to this site will be very interested to see pictures of this huge collection.

I think the correct name for "bulbglasses"would be Bulb Forcing Vases 

[Lina Hesseling]

My pictures are not the best, but I will show you some.
These are from the field of the breeder.

[Lina Hesseling]

A few more.

[Lina Hesseling]

These are from the field of Cees Breed. He is the keeper of the collection of historical bulbs. You can read more about him and his work in the topic, Luit made about him.

[Lina Hesseling]

And a few more.

[Lina Hesseling]

The last ones.

[Maggi Young]

I hope I will be forgiven for posting this photo here of a tulip field in British Columbia, Canada - photo was tweeted  by Oxford College

[mark smyth]

what is the small claw for?