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I was in Amsterdam with my mother in April last year, and it struck me that I haven't done anything with the photos from that weekend yet. I didn't think it was possible, but Keukenhof was spring-blooming bulb overload even for me, and I love bulbs, especially tulips and fritillarias. I took a fuckload of photographs, of course, and just could not be bothered to sort them through when we came home. Most of them were mainly intended as a sort of bulb wishlist for myself, anyway.
So obviously I'm intending to pester you with some of them. Amsterdam was a nice city, I liked it.
Fritillaria - a name sort that unfortunately wasn't commercially available last time I checked. There were four or five different ones in varying shades of pale yellow, orange, red and apricot, probably crosses between the different colour forms of Fritillaria imperialis, maybe with some F. raddeana thrown in too. They were named after classical composers, I think this might have been Bach. Really lovely.
Fritillaria raddeana. First time I saw them in person, although I've been jonesing for them for a couple of years. The bulbs are not very common in commerce, outrageously expensive and the growing information ranges from very easy to quite difficult, so I haven't caved and bought one yet. I love the dark, reddish stems.
Narcissus 'Rip van Winkle' - a very old name sort, 19th century or older, small, cute, doesn't really look much like a daffodil, but it is.
'Cynthia', a Tulipa clusiana variety. Also quite small and delicate. I like big, vulgar tulips, parrots and the like, but these small species tulips and their name sorts are very pretty too.
This is how the Dutch countryside looks in spring - everyone knows that the Netherlands is the world's largest producer of flower bulbs, but for some reason I hadn't quite drawn the conclusion that there would be myriads of bulbs being grown and flowering freely in the fields everywhere; daffodils, hyacinths, tulips, you name it. It was lovely.
So obviously I'm intending to pester you with some of them. Amsterdam was a nice city, I liked it.
Fritillaria - a name sort that unfortunately wasn't commercially available last time I checked. There were four or five different ones in varying shades of pale yellow, orange, red and apricot, probably crosses between the different colour forms of Fritillaria imperialis, maybe with some F. raddeana thrown in too. They were named after classical composers, I think this might have been Bach. Really lovely.
Fritillaria raddeana. First time I saw them in person, although I've been jonesing for them for a couple of years. The bulbs are not very common in commerce, outrageously expensive and the growing information ranges from very easy to quite difficult, so I haven't caved and bought one yet. I love the dark, reddish stems.
Narcissus 'Rip van Winkle' - a very old name sort, 19th century or older, small, cute, doesn't really look much like a daffodil, but it is.
'Cynthia', a Tulipa clusiana variety. Also quite small and delicate. I like big, vulgar tulips, parrots and the like, but these small species tulips and their name sorts are very pretty too.
This is how the Dutch countryside looks in spring - everyone knows that the Netherlands is the world's largest producer of flower bulbs, but for some reason I hadn't quite drawn the conclusion that there would be myriads of bulbs being grown and flowering freely in the fields everywhere; daffodils, hyacinths, tulips, you name it. It was lovely.
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