{"product_id":"fieldgate-fantasia","title":"Galanthus 'Fieldgate Fantasia'","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGalanthus\u003c\/em\u003e 'Fieldgate Fantasia' is an absolutely stunning snowdrop, and another of the Fieldgate snowdrops from the late Colin Mason.  It's a double-marked Trym-type (or pterugiform), with wonderful double-marked outer segments.  It flowers here in the North West from late January to early February.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eColin gardened on Fieldgate Lane in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, and named many of his snowdrops after pieces of classical music, which he loved.  A fantasia is a piece of music written freely from the composer's imagination, rather than following a set form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eColin's snowdrops were open-pollinated, with the bees doing the crossing.  In her tribute to Colin, Olive Mason recalled that he learned to twin-scale from Ronald Mackenzie, and became so good at it that he could supply John Morley with bulbs to sell.  That skill has helped so many good snowdrops find their way into our gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eAfter Colin died at the end of 2019, his daughter Sophie gave his collection, mostly his own Fieldgate hybrids, to The Garden House in Devon.  It was moved there in February 2020 and planted out just as the first lockdown began.  'Fieldgate Fantasia' is still very hard to come by, and it's a real privilege to be able to offer it.\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, Olive Mason, 'Colin Mason (1927 – 30th December 2019)' (HPS Galanthus Group newsletter, Spring 2020), Pat Eaton, 'The Garden House inherits Colin Mason's Galanthus collection' (HPS Galanthus Group newsletter, Autumn 2020) and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fantasia_(music)\" style=\"color: #7a7a7a;\"\u003eFantasia (music)\u003c\/a\u003e (Wikipedia).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WRJ SNOWDROPS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57694163829062,"sku":null,"price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/0701\/0118\/files\/Fieldgate_Fantasia_-_CR1_3962.jpg?v=1792873106","url":"https:\/\/www.wrjsnowdrops.co.uk\/products\/fieldgate-fantasia","provider":"WRJ Snowdrops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}