Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

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Dahlia Buttercup 
Dahlia Seedling
Dahlia Anne Cornelia 

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Dahlia Chat Noir                     
Dahlia Alva's Supreme
Dahlia Blue Eyes                       

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Dahlia Cryfield Harmony               
Dahlia Little Darling                   
Dahlia Marlief 

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Dahlia Summer Beauty                     
Dahlia Tip Toe                           
Dahlia Sweet Nathalie

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Very interesting was to see a flower chimera of a Dahlia. Not many growers would'nt take the time to cut such a flower and take it to the show.

Chimera 
and a few other entries:

Lycoris aurea
Fascicularia bicolor

[annew]

Maybe I should rename this buttercup 'Dahlia'. 

[fermi de Sousa]

Maybe I should rename this buttercup 'Dahlia'. 

Cute as a button, Anne!
cheers
fermi

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This week the visitors at the Show were surprised by seeing a vase with an rather uncommon pinkish-red gentian. Doing some research I found out that this was bred in New Zealand and is one of a series of new colours:

Gentiana Showtime Diva

[David Nicholson]

Luit, I'm sure I've seen these some of these pinkish-red gentians somewhere on the Forum fairly recently but can't find them. Bet Maggi can

[Maggi Young]

Orange - red gentian hybrid shown here http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10681.msg281702#msg281702 by Philippe is close.... 

And Wolfgang has shown a peach-coloured G. acaulis: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5405.msg151046#msg151046

[Maggi Young]

This page on gentians for the cut-flower trade in New Zealand : http://crops.orc.govt.nz/crop.php?cropid=9

Also :http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0703/S00042.htm from 2007

and
http://www.floraculture.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=76:first-new-zealand-hot-pink-gentian-cut-flower-cultivar&catid=11:product&Itemid=373

[David Nicholson]

There, said she would. Isn't she a little gem

[Maggi Young]

This week the visitors at the Show were surprised by seeing a vase with an rather uncommon pinkish-red gentian. Doing some research I found out that this was bred in New Zealand and is one of a series of new colours:

Gentiana Showtime Diva

I think this is a very attractive flower- and beautifully photographed, Luit.
If I saw this for sale as a cut flower I would be sure to buy it. Wonder how long it might take to reach Aberdeen florists? 

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There, said she would. Isn't she a little gem

Agreed !!

I think this is a very attractive flower- and beautifully photographed, Luit.
If I saw this for sale as a cut flower I would be sure to buy it.

Maggi, I haven't seen them here either, until now, but with this special strong colour I would buy them too. However I never liked those plants, which are sold en masse as rock plants in the Garden Centers with these pink(ish) flowers 

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Amongst a bigger entry of Amarine in vases there was Monday an impressive potgrown red cultivar:
 
Amarine Amor  This should be Nerine bowdenii x Nerine sarniensis