Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[Armin]

Luit,
great treat. Please continoue

[Lvandelft]

Today there were not so many entries.
Almost impossible to bring something from outside in this weather.
So the few I show are from indoor cultivation, except for the
flowers of the Narcissus which were picked from outside.

Tulipa Bolroy Moon
Tulipa American Embassy         
Hippeastrum Picotee         
Disporum megalanthum 1               
Disporum megalanthum 2         
Narcissus Englander 1           
Narcissus Englander 2           

[Lesley Cox]

The Disporum would be my favourite from the recent batches.

[Paul T]

I don't think I've seen a Disporum that produces terminal tufts of flowers on branches like that.  Very nice!! 

[Lvandelft]

From this week's show: 

First a Narcissus  not found correct by the Narcissus Committee.
but I liked it:
Narcissus [as] Longwith ?

A Corydalis with yellow leaves

Corydalis Berry Exciting 1           
Corydalis Berry Exciting 2 

Podophyllum difforme       leaf
Hippeastrum vittatum           
And a Tulip which some will not like   
Tulipa Elsenburg                     

 

[Lvandelft]

In the second batch some historical Narcissi:

Narcissus Argent   
Narcissus Bath's Flame           
Narcissus Butter and Eggs 1               
Narcissus Butter and Eggs 2           
Narcissus Feu de Joie [-]      (probably right)
Narcissus Mrs. Langtry           
Narcissus Twink               
Narcissus Victoria

[Lesley Cox]

I'm not at all sure about that yellow-leaved Corydalis. Is it a seedling from C. flexuosa `Blackberry?' It makes a few seedlings in my garden so I suppose if a yellow-leaved form showed up I'd grow it on but.....

[Paul T]

Great pics as always!!  I rather like the yellow leaf Corydalis, but I love the Podophyllum!!  Glorious leaf!!

[art600]

I love Narcissus, but I can only wonder how any of the last batch made it into commerce.  Some of them are quite dreadful.

Luit

You were right about the tulip - hideous

[Paul T]

Arthur,

Because at the time they were released there were only REALLY basic ones, unlike the wonderful array we have now.  At the time they were probably oohing and aahing over them just like we do over the new forms now!    It's all in the perspective!! 

[Lvandelft]

Arthur,

Because at the time they were released there were only REALLY basic ones, unlike the wonderful array we have now.  At the time they were probably oohing and aahing over them just like we do over the new forms now!    It's all in the perspective!! 

Thank you Paul.

Arthur, these are Narcissus of between 100+ and 300 years old!

[art600]

Luit

I did not recognise historical as meaning between 100 and 300 years old.  Clearly they were startlingly different from the norm, and as we say "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder".  Thank goodness we do have different opinions or the world would be a dull place. 

Modern varieties are generally so much better, although I think there is a tendency for many to look very similar - a problem I struggle with when looking at Snowdrops.

[annew]

Strangely, although in general I dislike double daffodils, I find that Argent and Feu de Joie have a certain elegance - perhaps because they have a looser, freer (is that a word?) style and not so stiff as the modern ones.

[Lesley Cox]

although I think there is a tendency for many to look very similar - a problem I struggle with when looking at Snowdrops.

Don't we all?

[Armin]

Luit,
thank you for the "historical" ones. "Bath Flame" attracts me - the pedals have the character like wings of a wind mill.
The "split coronas"...These poor X-rayed "creatures" look like escaped from a cruelty cabinet