{"product_id":"bo-bette","title":"Galanthus elwesii 'Bo-Bette'","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGalanthus elwesii\u003c\/em\u003e 'Bo-Bette' was selected in the Netherlands by Jan Huisman, from a batch of bulbs he bought from an old childhood friend of his father, a man ahead of his time who sold his many different snowdrops as just two kinds, single and double.  It stood out to Jan for its beautiful inner markings, and he named it after his first granddaughter.  It was registered in 2002.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThe flowers are a lovely shape, with long, rounded outers, and the inner segments carry an attractive two-part green marking that fills much of the segment, which can sometimes join up into a shape rather like a pair of scissors.  That two-part inner mark shows it to be \u003cem\u003eG. elwesii\u003c\/em\u003e var. \u003cem\u003eelwesii\u003c\/em\u003e, rather than var. \u003cem\u003emonostictus\u003c\/em\u003e, which has just a single mark at the tip.  It's a very pleasant and eye-catching \u003cem\u003eelwesii\u003c\/em\u003e clone.  Here in the North West of England it usually flowers in around mid-February.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wrj-sources\" style=\"font-size: 0.75em; color: #8a8a8a; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5; border-top: 1px solid #e6e6e6; padding-top: 10px; margin-top: 28px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-weight: 600;\"\u003eSources\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome of the background here comes from Bishop, Davis \u0026amp; Grimshaw, \u003cem\u003eSnowdrops: A Monograph of Cultivated Galanthus\u003c\/em\u003e; Freda Cox, \u003cem\u003eA Gardener's Guide to Snowdrops\u003c\/em\u003e; a list of Dutch snowdrops compiled for the VRV\/NRV forum (2012, sent by Brian Ellis).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WRJ SNOWDROPS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57699142336838,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/0701\/0118\/files\/Bo-Bette_-_CR1_5071_-_MAIN_square.jpg?v=1793740474","url":"https:\/\/www.wrjsnowdrops.co.uk\/products\/bo-bette","provider":"WRJ Snowdrops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}