Mid-Winter-Flower-Show Lisse 2009

[Diane Whitehead]

The bulbs shown are not all new ones.
 
 I'm not quite sure how international trade works.
Is the display meant to show what the wholesalers can supply this year?
Do bulb import/export representatives choose what they will buy at
the show?

 If a Canadian importer goes to the show and decides to order those
viridiflora hybrids, then I hope I will be able to buy them next year
from my local garden centre.

[Lvandelft]

This is also a place where experiments are shown with new presentations.
Here some pictures of tulips in 9 cm sq. pots or on water in a high glass:
Tulipa pres. 1          
Tulipa pres. 2            
Tulipa pres. 3              
Tulipa cl.      

[Lvandelft]

Very interesting to see was the entry with nostalgic tulips.
These varieties were the first used for forcing in the old days.
 

Hortus Bulborum Limmen NL. 1                 
Hortus Bulborum                             
                     
Tulipa Duc van Tol Cochineal                   
Tulipa Duc van Tol Red & Yellow                     
Tulipa Duc van Tol Roos Van Dekama                       
Tulipa Duc van Tol Rose                     
Tulipa Duc van Tol Salmon                       
Tulipa Duc van Tol White                             
Tulipa Duc van Tol Yellow                             
Tulipa Verboom [syn. Pottebakker Scarlet]
Tulipa Cerise-Gris -de-Lin

[Lvandelft]

and

[Lvandelft]

Batch 7
                 
Lilium Group 3                     
Lilium Group 4                       
Lilium LA 01-82197-01                   
Ornithogalum dubium geel               
Ranunculus Aviv Red                       
Ranunculus Aviv Yellow                 
Hyacinthus Blue Palace             
Hyacinthus Prince of Holland                 
Hyacinthus White Pearl                     
Hyacinthus Wonderland   

[Lvandelft]

batch 8
In this building is a special Show Hall of the KAVB, where every week  the Weekly Flowershow is held on Monday.
Here two overviews of the special Show Hall.
At this Winter Show growers may send in their products or novelties in
competition for prizes too.
Tulipa First Choice for instance got a first prize for best tulip in a pot.

 
Show hall 2                 
Show hall 3                       
Tulipa First Choice                   
Tulipa Mazzeo                           
Tulipa Orca 
Anemone coronaria  Jerusalem White             
Anemone coronaria Jerusalem Purple               
Anemone coronaria Jerusalem Violet             
Helleborus Group                         
Helleborus

[Lvandelft]

In the last batch some mixed pictures,
which I hope you would like to see.

Iris reticulata Pauline                   
Iris reticulata Rhapsody               
Lilium Amfora                           
Lilium Canterino                       
Lilium Lake Michigan                   
Tulipa 05-MA-632           
Narcissus arr.                           

and 2 small Hippeastrum:

Sonatini ‘Bordeaux Giant 1           
Sonatini ‘Bordeaux Giant 2           

[Gerdk]

Luit,
Thank you for the reply concerning the green daffs!

Here is another question about the outstanding pink shaded Hellebores. Did the grower add some notes concerning the ancestory of the plants shown?
It seems there is Helleborus thibetanus involved.

Gerd

[Lvandelft]

The bulbs shown are not all new ones.
 
 I'm not quite sure how international trade works.
Is the display meant to show what the wholesalers can supply this year?
Do bulb import/export representatives choose what they will buy at
the show?

 If a Canadian importer goes to the show and decides to order those
viridiflora hybrids, then I hope I will be able to buy them next year
from my local garden centre.

Diane, this Flower Show is a long tradition in Holland, being the first Show in the new year,
where growers have the possibility to show there products, no matter old or new.
It is merely a show for professionals and one can see old stable trade varieties as well as
newer seedlings of which the grower thinks, it is good enough to show.
Sometimes they show just one bulb, to find out what the other growers or traders think of it.
Many don't have a name when shown and they often will never get one and will be destroyed.
At these shows is much discussion between the growers.
The Viridi Narcissus don't have names until now, probably because they will need some more progression.
It takes often a long time until a nouveaute shows to be good enough to get into trade.

[Lvandelft]

And I forgot to mention the Flower Arrangers, who definitely want to show their
'innovative' ideas.
Don't know if this bulb would be attractive to customers or not.

Maybe I should put it into the Identification thread too?

no name:

[Maggi Young]

Luit, it seems the flower arrangers are as crazy as those snowdrop collectors! 
 Great photo!

[Lvandelft]

Luit, it seems the flower arrangers are as crazy as those snowdrop collectors! 
 Great photo!

But the good thing is that the flower arrangers mostly use more than two colours.. 

[Maggi Young]

Luit, it seems the flower arrangers are as crazy as those snowdrop collectors! 
 Great photo!

But the good thing is that the flower arrangers mostly use more than two colours.. 

True, but the snowdroppers do give THEIR bulbs some water.....

[Lvandelft]

 

[Lesley Cox]

Lovely pics as always Luit. So pleased you're set for another year. After all, if the BD can continue for years, why not the Showman?

Maggi, I'm also very pleased to see it has stopped raining in Aberdeen after years, and you can at last take off your mac.