Crocus Poll - Your top 5

[Gerry Webster]

ah, but it wasnt a direct quote and I assumed everyone would know by now they are different colours

Mark - I grovel. I misquoted you. After 3 days of email exchanges with British Gas my brain is numb & I should shut up.

[mark smyth]

stop licking my shoes No real need to grovel or apologise. The posts were fast and furious for a while

[Anthony Darby]

Aren't blousy and blowsy two different words with different meanings? Blousy is what happened to Sam Fox after gravity won, whereas blowsy is someone after they've been dragged through a hedge backwards!

[Jim McKenney]

Jim,I think it unlikely that anybody would pick up on a spelling mistake in a post. The reality is that probably three quarters of posts on this and other sites contain spelling errors. This is because most people are amateurs not only at gardening with little botanical knowledge but both typing and computer use. It is also the case as with me that it is nearly fifty years since I studied English grammar and to say it is rusty is an understatement. Better a mis-spelt post than no post at all. Thank goodness for spell check.

Well, Tony, I think you've described me pretty well. If you want to see what I'm really like, pre-spell-check and unburdened by the demands of proper spelling, take a look at posts numbers 22, 23 and 24 in the "Re: Monocarpic - a valid term for bulbs" thread.

As you said, thank goodness for spell check; we just have to remember to use it before we blast off.

[Tony Willis]

Jim I have followed the mono-carpic thread with interest and thought this is a case to misquote where 'great minds will never think alike'

My typing skills were gained and then lost when I worked in an office at Manchester Docks which are in Salford.It was considered by my employer an area unsuitable for young women to work (this was 1969 when such chivalrous thoughts were allowed) and only males were employed. There were however lots of very unsuitable women in the area which was fairly exciting. In those days I was the junior and was sent to learn to touch type which was a complete failure and I have remained ever since a two finger typist.

I have not participated in the poll because although I like them all there is nothing to beat the one in flower now,whatever the day particularly if you are lying on a freezing mountainside in a blizzard looking at it in the wild.As has been said many times, you never forget the first one.

[Lesley Cox]

Jim,I think it unlikely that anybody would pick up on a spelling mistake in a post.

Don't you believe it Tony, but then, I have been (rightly) accused of some anal retention in this regard.

[Joakim B]

Maggi as was seen later the correct name is Göteborg rather than the one used in the first article. Borg is Swedish while burg is German.
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2771.msg64622#msg64622
The others spelled it correctly.
Regarding top five I saw many lovely ones here but I still like the big Dutch ones especially when they produce there own version in the lawn.
Take care
Joakim
PS regarding spell check I have the feeling it is American spelling rather than british it goes by. I become Hakim (Turkish I presume) so it also has it´s faults.

[Maggi Young]

Maggi as was seen later the correct name is Göteborg rather than the one used in the first article. Borg is Swedish while burg is German.

Yes, Joakim, I know the city is Göteborg
but the name has been given in the written description as Crocus x gotoburgensis
...by the way, we in the UK use "burg ", also.....as in Edinburgh !

Re: Crocus Poll - Your top 5
« Reply #58 on: December 12, 2008, 08:28:03 PM »
The report begins:
 Crocus x gotoburgensis R. Rolfe 'Ember' P.C. 

[mark smyth]

Thanks to the 14 people who took part in the vote. The list is below

Maggi
Crocus gargaricus
Crocus mathewi
Crocus corsicus
Crocus sieberi atticus
Crocus boryi

Thomas
Crocus sieberi „Hubert Edelsten“
Crocus versicolor 
Crocus medius
Crocus laevigatus
Crocus tournefortii

Arthur
Crocus mathewii
Crocus sieberi sieberi
Crocus banaticus
Crocus laevigatus
Crocus michelsonii

Gerry
Crocus cartwrightianus
Crocus niveus (white)
Crocus tournefortii
Crocus flavus

David Nicholson
Crocus goulimiy
Crocus boryi
Crocus kotschyanus
Crocus medius
Crocus speciosus 'Oxonion'

Lesley
Crocus minimus
Crocus sieberi sublimis f. tricolor
Crocus biflorus alexandri
Crocus nudiflorus
Crocus chrysanthus `Zwanenburg'

Zhirair
crocus vernus Dutch hybrids
crocus pulchellus 'Zephyr'
crocus speciosus
crocus niveus
crocus goulimyi 'Mani White'

Otto
Crocus banaticus
Crocus vallicola
Crocus sieberi ssp. sieberi
Crocus minimus ,the Col de Bavella form
Crocus mathewii

Janis
Crocus scharojanii flavus
Crocus autranii
Crocus banaticus SNOWDRIFT
Crocus wattiorum
Crocus mathewii

Luc
Crocus heufelianus "Carpathan Wonder"
Crocus biflorus nubigena
Crocus sieberi sieberi
Crocus biflorus melantherus
Crocus sieberi 'Hubert Edelsten'

Dirk
Crocus caspius
Crocus scharojanii
Crocus biflorus ssp.pulchricolor
Crocus scardicus
Crocus sieberi ssp.sieberi

Dave M
Crocus mathewi
Crocus niveus - the bicoloured form
Crocus sieberi Firefly
Crocus olivieri
Crocus pelistericus

Ian Young
Crocus scardicus
Crocus scharojanii flavus
Crocus vallicola
Crocus gargaricus
Crocus mathewii

Jim Mckenny
Crocus tommasinianus
Crocus speciosus
Crocus imperati
Crocus oreocreticus
Dutch Crocus

[mark smyth]

The top 5 are
6 votes Crocus mathewi
4 votes Crocus sieberi sieberi
2 votes crocus vernus Dutch hybrids
2 votes Crocus vallicola
2 votes Crocus tournefortii

[David Nicholson]

..... and thanks to our Pollmaster for keeping a note.

[mark smyth]

Thanks David

[Maggi Young]

I'd have thought there would be a much wider range chosen.... an interesting excercise, thanks ,Mark 

[Lesley Cox]

You seem to have a lot of spare time Mark.

[mark smyth]

Not really. I was multi tasking - coffee (real  ), googling for 24V transformer for lights, Scottish Rocking ...