{"product_id":"kersen","title":"Galanthus nivalis 'Kersen'","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGalanthus nivalis\u003c\/em\u003e 'Kersen' is a lovely, neat snowdrop with a very unusual and attractive inner marking.  Kersen is Dutch for cherries, and when you lift the flower you can see why: the green mark on each inner segment is a narrow V whose two ends swell into rounded blobs, just like a pair of cherries hanging from their stalks.  The outer segments are clean white and nicely rounded, and the flowers sit on slender, upright stems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eIt was picked out by Nicolas Top in 1996 from a large colony of snowdrops near Cologne in Germany, and apart from that charming mark it's very much a typical \u003cem\u003eG. nivalis\u003c\/em\u003e.  That inner marking really does stand out as being very unusual, and I can see where the name came from.  Here in the North West it flowers 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; the Edulis Galanthus sales list 2019; 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":57709236191558,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/0701\/0118\/files\/Kersen_-_CR1_4896_-_MAIN_square.jpg?v=1793788536","url":"https:\/\/www.wrjsnowdrops.co.uk\/products\/kersen","provider":"WRJ Snowdrops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}