{"product_id":"valerie","title":"Galanthus nivalis 'Valérie'","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGalanthus nivalis\u003c\/em\u003e ‘Valérie’ is a lovely little \u003cem\u003enivalis\u003c\/em\u003e snowdrop.  It is relatively short, with nice-sized flowers and foliage, and has really attractive green markings on the outer segments.  It isn’t an inverse poculiform; it’s more of a green-tipped \u003cem\u003enivalis\u003c\/em\u003e.  The flowers hang nicely from very delicate pedicels, and the inner marking is an inverted ‘U’ at the sinus.  It’s just a very clean and dainty little snowdrop that I like a lot; it’s very vigorous and does brilliantly in the garden here in the North West of England, where it usually flowers in late February.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eBrian Ellis tells me that he originally came by ‘Valérie’ through Eddie Tijtgat in Belgium.  It was found in the garden of Count Renaud de Kerchove, who organises the plant fair at Beervelde, Belgium’s greatest plant show, twice a year, and it was named after the Countess.  Brian’s experience is that it flowers late in the season and over a very long period, which isn’t always the case with late flowerers.\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 Brian Ellis (by email, February 2023 and October 2026).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WRJ SNOWDROPS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57709069533510,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/0701\/0118\/files\/Valerie_-_CR1_2173_-_MAIN_square.jpg?v=1793788535","url":"https:\/\/www.wrjsnowdrops.co.uk\/products\/valerie","provider":"WRJ Snowdrops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}