Test your skill........

[Martin Baxendale]

Yeah, but those last few were all guesses. I honestly couldn't start to name half of those in the vase 'cos you just can't see them or their marks clearly enough. And I'm not 100% sure of some of my real attempts - that huge thing in the middle, for example; I don't think it is Washfield Colesbourne (too big I think) but have no idea what it actually is (leaves would help a lot). I for one give up, Maggie. As Mark says, can you put us out of our miserable, grovelling misery and tell us then we can all go "oh of course, well now it's obvious" (or not as the case may be).

[Paddy Tobin]

Maggi,

I've been keeping quiet - as I haven't a clue.

Paddy

[ian mcenery]

Maggi glad you spotted that there was little stomach for the quiz except Martin and are trying to bring them back into line. I could guess at a few but to get a proper assessment I could not hope to name these without a magnifying glass, a ruler and a book. They all look nice though and the thing in the middle is definitely a vase  

[mark smyth]

I dont see Sophie but I do now see Lady B Stanley

[mark smyth]

and I'll go for straight nivalis, elwesii monostictus and plicatus plicatus.

[Martin Baxendale]

Yes Mark, Lady B is on the left towards the top, behind a load of others. I didn't really see Sophie North - that was just a wild guess at some that might be there that I couldn't see!

[Martin Baxendale]

Okay, I'll have one last look and recount then post my final, final best of what I do actually think I see. Give me a minute, Maggi.

[mark smyth]

Like Martin said if the flowers were in focus and shown one by one ..

[mark smyth]

could be a shadow but one looks like Ketton at 2pm

[tonyg]

Sorry Guys and Gals but I can only see two different ones .... single and double.  There is not even a yellow one .

Its just Maggi and Luit having a joke with us all .... come on Maggi, come clean now

BTW - there are only 2 types of crocus .... easy ones for the garden which everyone can grow and tricky ones which specialists kill slowly

[Martin Baxendale]

Okay, my final list, going clockwise around the vase from bottom: ordinary double nivalis, Bertram Anderson, Magnet, Desdemona, Lady Beatrix Stanley, Viridapice, bloody big elwesii, John Gray, Galatea and S. Arnott. That's all I can see. Final answer.

[Martin Baxendale]

could be a shadow but one looks like Ketton at 2pm

I thought that might be Ketton too, but the mark over the sinus looks too thick to me. There's another one where I thought I saw a hint of Ketton but I can't be arsed to go and look at the picture again. It's driving me nuts! Maggi? You're loving this aren't you.

[Maggi Young]

okay, Luit thinks we may be being a little hard on you fellows ( that man has a kind heart) so he has come up with a way to give you more chances.....
first batch of closer shots.....

[Maggi Young]

and some more... not all individually....

[Maggi Young]

Here's the group again...