Remarks from the Weekly KAVB Flower Show - Lisse

[Maggi Young]

Thank you Luit. Oh I do like those Babianas.

So do I , David, the colour range is lovely. The varieties of Coreopsis are so cheery, too...hard to beat a good daisy, isn't it?
Luit, great that you show us the fields of Babiana to match as well.... The views must make your travel all the more pleasant, eh?

[Lesley Cox]

I love the Ajuga 'Arctic Fox,' but here I find it burns very easily and has to be grown in full shade, or else watered daily through the summer.

[Lvandelft]

Luit, great that you show us the fields of Babiana to match as well.... The views must make your travel all the more pleasant, eh?

Several times a week a make a cycling tour through our area and take a pocket camera with me.
Beginning of July I saw this field with Freesia and this week I took a picture again.
The smell of this field is enormous.

[Maggi Young]

Oh, my word! I can only imagine the wonderful fragrance..... I would LOVE to experience that scent for real. Delicious!  I could not cycle past, that, Luit, I'd have to sit down and just enjoy. Thank goodness for your pocket camera!

I believe that it is a recognised medical fact that some people, who are able to receive other scents perfectly well, are totally unable to know the scent of Freesia.... poor souls, they have my deep sympathy.  Of course there are some people ( I'm thinking about you, here, Jean) who have no sense of smell but the ones I am speaking about can smell all other scents, sweet or sour, whatever, but cannot distinguish ANY scent from Freesias!! 

Mind you, i have thought myself that nowadays some florists' freesias are less fragrant than they used to be... I suppose this is a result of certain breeding strains, like in roses which lost a lot of scent over the years. I am more than pleased to learn that there still exist such colourful fields of pure scent to delight our senses.

[Lvandelft]

Maggi, this place is only less than 1 Km. from our place and when the wind has the
right direction, we sit in the garden (or work  ) and enjoy the smell for hours!
It is really a smell which is so sweet and not agressive like Hyacinths. Smelling H. for hours leaves you with a strong headache.
The biggest part of the field is under fleece or something likely, and I am still puzzling why.
They are in full flower and I presume it is against viruses or they let them self pollinate to
keep clean colour strains.

[Maggi Young]

Luit, does Vroni need a housemaid, by any chance ?  
I know my own house is untidy, but for a few hours scenting outside each day, then I could really do good work for her!

[Lvandelft]

Luit, does Vroni need a housemaid, by any chance ?  
I know my own house is untidy, but for a few hours scenting outside each day, then I could really do good work for her!

Maggi, Vroni said for such a good help she always has a spare room!
But I personally doubt if you would be of good help inside, when scenting outside  .
Nevertheless outside is always some gardeningwork available....

[Maggi Young]

Luit, you know me too well! 

[annew]

The Freesia fields look wonderful - I suppose it would make the grower angry if I went and rolled around in it like a cat with catmint???

[ranunculus]

Depends if you can purr provocatively at the same time Anne ... ?   

[Paul T]

I can purr, Cliff!!  Just a piece of trivia I thought I'd share. 

Luit,

Fantastic pics as always.  The freesia fields are simply stunning.  I can only imagine the perfume!

[ranunculus]

I can purr, Cliff!!  Just a piece of trivia I thought I'd share. 

Would that be 'purr ... spire' Paul?

[Paul T]

Nah, I was thinking more that it was 'purr...fect' Cliff! 

[Lvandelft]

Some pictures of plants shown this week:

Eucomis Lotte 1       
Eucomis Lotte 2   
Eucomis comosa Red Stem Type               
Eucomis pole-evansii                 

Seldom seen here, but probably because Lycoris seem to flower rarely in culture:

Lycoris aurea               

[Brian Ellis]

Super looking Eucomis 'Lotte' Luit, a nice sheen to the flowers.