Mid-Winter-Flower-Show Lisse 2009

[Lvandelft]

Every year in the first week of January is this great Flower Show held
in the Bulb Trade Centre of CNB in Lisse.

On this show the growers have the possibility to show their products.
For instance there are many tulips entries, more then 80 exposé’s!

To give some impressions of the place where the show is, in the first batch a picture
of the building, which I made in summer looking from the CNB Dahlia Show Garden
and some from inside the building where you see how flowers are arranged around and
along the trade rooms, where a big part of the Dutch bulb trading is done.

The pictures are not so good, because of the light circumstances in the hall.
But I made all pictures without using flash for more real colours.

CNB Building
Lilium Group 1                 
Lilium Group 2           

On the second picture along the path was an attractive stand, where mostly Narcissus are shown:
           
Narcissus Group         
Narcissus Blues 
Narcissus Mirar                   
Narcissus viridi I                   
Narcissus viridi II               
Narcissus viridi III     
Narcissus viridi IV   

[Lvandelft]

In the second batch some more Lilium and two entries with perennials and
a few Zantedeschia

Lilium Group 1                   
Lilium Group 2                     
Lilium White Heaven                 
Lilium Legend                   
Lilium Triumphator [Zanlophator]               
Perennials 1               
Perennials 2                     
Zantedeschia Group                 
Zantedeschia arr. 1                     
Zantedeschia arr. 2                   

[Lvandelft]

In the 3rd batch
Hippeastrum Group 1     
Hippeastrum Group 2               
Tulipa Group 1                   
Tulipa Group 2                   
Tulipa Group 3     
Tulipa Denmark               
Tulipa Verona   
Tulipa Pako                   
Tulipa TBL 98012             
Tulipa Thailand           

[Lvandelft]

The fourth batch shows one entry where Narcissus in pots are shown.
I show 1 pot of an entry from Israel.
And an overview of an entry with smaller Narcissus:

Narcissus Nir   
               
Narcissus Group               
Narcissus Toby the First
Narcissus Itzim               
Narcissus Double Itzim
Narcissus Toto
Narcissus Topolino                   
Narcissus Little Beauty
Narcissus Lemon Silk
Narcissus Julia Jane                   

more to come later....

[Maggi Young]

Goodness me.... what a show! So much colour and scent and beauty in the middle of winter... a real treat...even better than going skating, Luit!

[Gerry Webster]

How nice to see those beautiful N. viridiflorus hybrids again. Incidentally, I understand part of the reason for creating hybrids with this species  is that it is resistant to basal rot. On the other hand, for my taste, 'Blues' & 'Mirar' should have been infected with rot from the word go - maybe it's not too late.

[mark smyth]

Definitely, Gerry, and split coronas, and pink cups

[Maggi Young]

I must be mellowing with age....I don't much care for the doubles and the frillies myself, but now when I see them I think.... oh well, nurserymen must put their children in new clothes and through school, just like everyone else......  and I'd rather they did that by selling Blues and Mirar to people who want them than have someone tell   me he's selling me what I want but it turns out not to be, as we  have been discussing elsewhere!

[annew]

The greens are nice aren't they? Nir is pretty too.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Well you're starting off 2008 quite explosively Luit !
What a show - and all that with -10°C outside 

[Gerdk]

The pictures are not so good, because of the light circumstances in the hall.
But I made all pictures without using flash for more real colours.

Luit,
You are right, pictures are not so good! They are excellent as usual!

I like the viridiflorus hybrids most - they are unique!


Are they suited for outdoor cultivation in northern Europe, or did the breeder create them for  countries with a warmer climate?

Gerd

[Brian Ellis]

Good enough for me Luit, as usual an excellent thread and looking at the plants I am already starting to feel a little less cold, even though we still have frost outside mid afternoon!

[David Nicholson]

As usual Luit, great pictures. Thank you.

[Lvandelft]

Before I show the last pictures, thank you all for the kind words.
Don’t bother, it was a pleasure for me to visit this Show.
(I even visited the Show twice actually, because it is almost
not possible to see everything in one visit.)

Gerd,
I don’t know what exactly are the aims of the breeder.
Breeding takes place mostly in warmer climates, like in California,
Australia or N. Zealand, and for sure there are used several tazetta
in the breeding programme.
One of the first breeders, Manuel Lima, was really obsessed to make
green Narcissus.
Not a very good answer to your question, I think

[Lvandelft]

Not only tulips, lilies or narcissi are shown on this show:

Allium neapolitanum           
Cyclamen Group     
Cyrtanthus mackenii             
Iris reticulata Group           
Leucocoryne Andes               
Nerine undulata             
Eucharis amazonica