Liza- What a beautiful flower!

Very pretty!
Susan

Very nice! Wish I had some of that snow as a background too. I'm sure there are plenty that wouldn't mind sending it over though...hehe!

Thanks for sharing!

-Frank

Frank, Take my snow, all of it! It is now total slush with the temp up in the 50's, rain and wind, but we are going to head out to a family party today by carrying our potluck dishes 100 feet down a driveway of the aforesaid slush just to make sure we can get out. Still would have needed chains just to do the driveway last night when we returned from our daughters'!

Will make a table bouquet of all my remaining "Not Angeleique's" and pine from the 10 yr old pine tree broken off at the ground level by that snow! LAst year I took a bouquet of Exotica that was wonderful. I Am afraid that my "Not Angeliques" will be a bit "Common" after that, but they should show forth against the slush real well and add a note of cheer! And I am getting a bit tired of their never ending blooms! NO wonder they are selling this off as something that is not as advertised...they must grow like clover does in my yard...exhuberently and against all odds!

I have been doing some on line research this morning. I would like opinions....I am almost convinced that what I Have is a hybrid between Lilac WOnder and Hercules! From the pics on line that I have looked at, HErcules is bigger and the white stripes tend to extend all the way to the flower tips. And Lilac Wonder does not have the white star stripes inthe center? or not as beautifully defined as the one I Have. Also, Everyone talks about how huge Hercules is, where as my flowers are a nice 6" probaly, certainly not 8". I thin the color fits with both cultivars.

You who have experienced both varieties, what is your opinion?

I still think I won, what ever it is...This is becoming one of my favorites! Maybe I should just give it its on name, also. I think its name will be "Naomi" (The name I was given at birth and known by all through childhood. And only called that by Drs offices and elderly uncles now!)

It has a very good similarity with Amigo.

Maria, you are right! Aha, I shall call it my little Amigo!
McClure-Zimmerman lies again, but this time I got 3 bulbs I like! And this is different from the 3 they sent last year that were definitely not Lilac WOnder either! Maybe every year I should ask for replacements and see if I ever do get a true Lilac Wonder! THe same with the 3 Angeliques.

I made the remaining "Not Angeliques" into a bouquet with pine and branches of tiny red crab apples and took it to my sister-in-laws today for our family party. IT got raves...I was ready to get rid of them...do not particularly like that "sunburn color" of orangey pink. THey are exactly the color of Amourette but bigger. I mixed them in the bouquet.

Amigo is 'simply' beautiful.

Lilac Wonder and Angelique are both out of production in Holland...unfortunately. This makes me wonder how MZ can sell stuff that are not existing.

OH! This explains a lot! Thanks for that bit of information!So they are just substituting things that a novice might not notice rather then changing their website? How pathetic!

What a shame this is...they send the most beautiful bulbs but can't manage a website properly...this does not make sense to me at all. I would gladly buy their quality bulbs if I knew I was getting what is pictured.And I suppose for a lot of people it does not matter, but we know how ripped off we feel when we get something that is not what was advertised. You would think they could at least put a note that the variety is no longer available and that they are substituting (blank) for it this year!

JUst for that I Am going to ask for replacement for those 3 "Angeleques" they send again...but ask for a different cultivar next year as the replacement.

The photos show a lovely color, hard to describe, but extremely lovely! A lucky mislabel or substitution, whichever the case may be! I love it!

Thanks for sharing, Lizalily!