Crocus Poll - Your top 5

[Ian Y]

Janis it is the one in pictures 5/6 that is burnt deep into my memory - a stunningly beautiful Crocus definitely in my top 5.
Some of these other forms you show are also very nice plants indeed.

That is why I will put up with the slightly muddy, purple/brown/yellow forms that I have raised from seeds so far.

Thanks for showing these.

[ian mcenery]

  Janis wonderful plants thanks for sharing - not a lot of these about. In terms of lack of vigour it is a little surprising as I always thought hybridising gave more vigour, though I suppose neither parent is particularly vigorous.

Ah one day I might get scardicus and I could try to hybridise these myself   

[Paul T]

Janis,

Stunning hybrids!!  Wow. 

[Joakim B]

Sorry for the late reply but I have been off line for a while.
Nice  C x gotoburgensis  Janis thanks for showing them, very lovely.

David et al thanks for the lesson about burgh very intersting. We have the same meaning of fortified place for borg even if it now also is a knights castle type Ivanhoe for kids toys. Göteborg is much younger than the time of knights and since the founding king Died 1632 and got to power 1611 it was well after the time of knights.

By the way the Nordic way of saying Edinburgh would be the same as the north American way  .

Nice learning
Joakim

[Anthony Darby]

Gosh, how did I miss seeing these. I'm definitely not worther to grow such rarities, but intend to try the hybrid x gotoburgensis  when I can get hold of some.

[dominique]

WOW!!!       05/06 is a real beauty. What a shame it doesn't increase much.

My own favourite is 02/03 and 05/06 as second choice
Janis

Janis
my favorite is 01 Thanks for the pics
Dom

[Rogan]

Seeing all these wonderful croci makes me want to keep trying - despite my warm temperate climate. At present my top five are:
#1 - what's a crocus?   
#2 - what's a crocus?   
#3 - what's a crocus?   
#4 - what's a crocus?   
#5 - what's a crocus?   

 

[gote]

Do we mean the top five we actually grow? or the top five we would like to grow if we #A could lay our hands on a corm #B were able to grow them?
The last one shown by Janis would be one of them.
Of those I have grown my top five would be:
Speciosus
Speciosus albus,
'Ladykiller'
'Princess Beatrix'
Banaticus (which I find difficult)
This is the list of the uninitiated.

Most crocus are very beautiful so the choice is difficult.

German Burg Swedish borg means castle (never city) just as Joakim writes. However, since medieval towns often started around castles many towns all over Europe From Burgos to Borgå
got burg in their name. Göteborg probably got its name because it was well fortified. The word also has a general flavour of safety in Swedish. Derivates of the word are used in guarantees of loans. 
I assume that the Romans introduced the word castellum for the original meaning of fortress and thus, in the English language, Burgh, Borough came to mean town only.

Göte