Keukenhof Gardens in Spring 2009, Lisse NL.

[fermi de Sousa]

Luit,
ther are some fascinating and fantastic flowers amongst these liliums!
The scent must've also been incredible in an indoor setting!
thanks again for sharing them with us.
cheers
fermi

[Joakim B]

Great batch of lilies. I enjoy them a lot. They also do fairly well with me in Portugal the mixed hybrids at least.
David the beastly beetles are fairly easy to kill if one start early in the season and just keeps after the small larvae that eat the foliage straight of the beetles just makes some holes so not good for showing but not a great garden problem. It is their larvae that is the problem. People have tried to use products used against ants on the ground and just shake the lilies so that the beetles fall into it and also the larvae.
I just hunt and kill them and so far very successfully in Portugal. After the first storm I KILLED MOST most of the adults but some had laid eggs that became larvae but those are easily killed so the last two month have not had more.
Do not give up see it as a sport (they even scream).
All the best
Joakim

[Lvandelft]

Fermi, I went there early in the morning and late afternoon. When it's warm I would not call it "scent" 

some more of the show:

Lilium Santa Rosa
Lilium Show 13               
Lilium Show 14
Lilium Blood Brothers             
Lilium Show 16   
Lilium Royal Sunset         
Lilium Show 15                   
Lilium Show 17               
Lilium Show 18           
Lilium Sheila                 
             
         
 

[Lvandelft]

the last batch:

Lilium Show 28
Lilium Anastasia   
Lilium Orange Twins 1           
Lilium Orange Twins 2                 
Lilium Show 22
Lilium Show 26                 
Lilium White Pixels
Lilium Show 27         
Lilium Tango Lily       
Lilium White Heaven           
             

[Lvandelft]

During the last week there was in one of the pavillions another show
with so called Summer Flowers
For some pictures I needed to use flash light

Arr. 1                     
Arr. 2               
Arr. 3                   
Asclepias Amalia                 
Dianthus Antiqua           
Dianthus barbatus Green Trick     
Dianthus Cherry Tessino           
Hydrangea macrophylla Hokomano Magical Noblesse         
Matthiola                     

[Lvandelft]

Zantedeschia 1 
Zantedeschia 2             
Zantedeschia Captain Paris               
Arr. 4

[Lvandelft]

In the same pavillion was since last Sunday a special Show from the Wakefield Tulip Society.
All the exhibits were displayed in beer bottles, which were packed in crates and driven
to Holland overnight, after the yearly Wakefield Tulip Show (I believe?) on Saturday before.

Many visitors were very impressed to see these old flamed tulips in a special Show.

Wakefield Tulip Soc. 

[Lvandelft]

Wakefield Tulip Soc. 2             
             

[Maggi Young]

My goodness me! Just when I thought I was relaxed to all the delights that might be shown us from Keukenhof, there appears a display of ancient tulips from an ancient tulip socitey in England! Well I was NOT expecting that!! Wonderful!!

[Joakim B]

Some great tulips there thanks for showing. I bet more than me would like a lot of these ones in the graden ?!
Funny that noone showed pics from the English show. It had to travel aros the chanel to be seen on a Scottish forum. Asmall world 

All the best
Joakim

[Gerard Oud]

Deal!

[Lvandelft]

Four days before Keukenhof closed, it rained very heavily during the night before.
Many flowers suffered of course by that but there was still a lot to see in the garden.
I made a few pictures, mostly of interesting ancient tulips in the Historic Garden.

 
               
Tulipa DEG Purpurkroon                     
Tulipa Breeder Music [1939]                     
Tulipa DEG Yellow Rose                           
Tulipa Parrot Group Texas Gold                 
Tulipa Rembrandt Columbine [1929]               
Tulipa Rembrandt Mabel 1             
Tulipa Rembrandt Mabel 2               
Tulipa viridiflora   

[Lvandelft]

In the second batch some other impressions.
Lane
Gunnera 1                 
Gunnera 2
Viola bed   

and some tulips after heavy rain.

Last Tulipa 1               
Last Tulipa 2   


I hope our visit did enjoy you.

If there is interest, I made some pictures of Art, shown throughout the whole garden,
then I could show them here too?

[FrazerHenderson]

Luit,

Dank voor het tonen van de foto's. De beelden van tulpen waren uitzonderlijk. Natuurlijk, hield ik werkelijk van de Maatschappij Wakefield!

Frazer

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Stunning display Luit !
Too bad the season's over !
Thanks for all the hard work of the last few months..  you may now continue gardening now ...