{"product_id":"celias-double","title":"Galanthus 'Celia's Double'","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGalanthus\u003c\/em\u003e 'Celia's Double' is a very neat and tidy double, with a very tight rosette.  When the outer segments spread out, which they do like little wings, what you'll find underneath is a very tidy, layered rosette of beautifully marked inner segments.  Each one is banded with green at the sinus in a slightly squashed, inverted 'U', and there's another very attractive marking at the base, which to me looks almost like two solid marks, one each side, joined by a smudge of green.  The inner segments also have a delicate, almost striped texture to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eIt's one of those flowers that you need to lift and look into to fully appreciate, and it's well worth the effort.  All in all, it's a very attractive snowdrop, and a very vigorous and robust plant, with a very erect scape.  Here in the North West it usually flowers in mid January.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eIt came up as a seedling in Celia Sawyer's garden in South Warwickshire.  Celia has told the story herself in the newsletter: a Greatorex double grows near her \u003ca href=\"\/products\/diggory\"\u003e'Diggory'\u003c\/a\u003e, and she reckons the two must have got together, as two very different seedlings appeared, one becoming 'Celia's Double' and the other 'Walter's Double'.  Freda Cox records that it was introduced and named for her by Richard Bashford and Valerie Bexley at Woodchippings in 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eCelia tells me that both 'Celia's Double' and 'Walter's Double' are much more robust than her namesake, \u003cem\u003eG.\u003c\/em\u003e 'Celia Sawyer', and both are doing well for her.\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 Freda Cox, \u003cem\u003eA Gardener's Guide to Snowdrops\u003c\/em\u003e; Celia Sawyer, 'The slippery slope to Galanthophilia' (HPS Galanthus Group newsletter, Autumn 2023); Celia Sawyer (by email, October 2026).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WRJ SNOWDROPS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57699502653766,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/0701\/0118\/files\/Celia_s_Double_-_CR1_0763_-_MAIN_square.jpg?v=1793745687","url":"https:\/\/www.wrjsnowdrops.co.uk\/products\/celias-double","provider":"WRJ Snowdrops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}