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We see a great many new pinks every year but they’re all pretty much the versions of the same old familiar type. Nothing wrong with that, as they become better scented and more prolific and long flowering. But sometimes, we just look for something a little different. So step forward the Dianthus Diadoble...
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Last summer at the National Plant Show , Dianthus Memories ('WP11 GWE04') won the award for the Best New Plant Introduction . Having won the top award at a trade show, recently it was a deserving runner-up in Chelsea’s Plant of the Year competition. The journey began eight years ago when Whetman...
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Green flowers are always tempting, and as cut flowers they’re especially valuable as they go so well with so many other colours. Until recently, white carnations were often dyed green - never very satisfactory - but now here’s a natural solution. Green Trick (‘Temarisou’) is not a carnation, in fact...
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The winner of this year’s Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year award is Digitalis Illumination. In second place came Dianthus Memories and in third place came Hyacinthus orientalis 'Royal Navy'. I have to say that I’ve been enthusing about Thompson & Morgan ’s Digitalis Illumination ('Tmdgfp001'...
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Ninety three plants were entered for New Plant Awards at this week's second annual National Plant Show . The judges picked a winner, and the visitors also picked their favourite. The Best in Show award went to Dianthus 'Memories'. This pure white garden pink was raised by Whetman Pinks in...
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For many years now Whetman Pinks , in Devon, have been the leading producers of new pinks – in the world. They’ve developed new pinks in a range of styles, from traditional types to miniatures and Fire Star (‘Devon Xera’), one of the best of their recent introductions, is now available. It was outstanding...
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Every year Peter Seabrook of The Sun arranges for some new plants to be at the Chelsea Flower Show . Mostly, instead of rare and esoteric wonders of wild places or flights of the plant breeders imagination these are practical garden centre plants, often for patios and small gardens - plants you'll...
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As well as over eighty new plants at Chelsea, this year sees the arrival of a couple of old timers - one over a hundred years old. Cayeux Iris from France will have four impressive new introductions at the Show but also on display will be Iris ‘Ma Mie', originally introduced in 1906. Click on the...
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Many of the Chelsea exhibitors will have new plants on display this year, but what does "new" actually mean? There are three main types of "new" Chelsea plants. 1. Plants which have never have been seen on display anywhere in the country - or perhaps anywhere in the world - before...
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