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For the very last post in my coverage of the new plants seen at the Chelsea Flower Show this year, here's my final list. It contains an amazing one hundred and twelvr (yes, 112) new plants. I've taken all the announcements in the press releases with a bucket of salt, poked around the show for...
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In the run up to the Chelsea Flower Show and for the last week since I took my first look at the show as it was being set up, I've been blogging about the new plants. Thirty four posts in all, plus eight in the run up to the show. But here's the thing: what do we mean by "new", exactly...
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The world famous French iris nursery Cayeux has been showing irises at the Chelsea Flower Show for a few years ago. But, up till now, their exhibits have been disappointing.They grow their show plants in England and this year, for the first time, their irises were grown for the show by Woottens of Wenhaston...
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I was surprised by the wealth of attractive but unfamiliar chrysanthemums on the Chelsea Flower Show display staged by Graeme Iddon . A lovely colour-coordinated display featuring what for gardeners are unfamiliar chrysanths, they should prove easy to grow and valuable cut flowers. These are all bred...
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There show's over, and a great show it was, sell-off was late yesterday afternoon - but news of new plants keeps on coming. Just so you know... three more batches of newcomers and then a long list of every one. Now, there are more new roses from Harkness Roses than from anyone else. I took a look...
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Winners of sixty four Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medals, and famous for introducing new plants since the inception of the nursery in 1864, Hillier Nurseries have introduced a grand total of more than 230 new varieties over the years - with two more this year. Pride of place go to two dramatic new multicoloured...
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The exhibits staged by Penhow Nurseries (no website) at the Chelsea Flower Show are always simple and dramatic and always feature just two South African genera - Diascia and Nemesia . This year they won their sixth Gold medal in the ten years they've been at Chelsea and also launched a new Diascia...
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All the attention on the Peter Beales Roses display has been on his new rose ‘Highgrove' and the Queen's visit to the exhibit on Monday. But he has two other new roses this year and both, perhaps unexpectedly, are Hybrid Teas. With classic Hybrid Tea flowers on a more shrub like plant, ‘Grosvenor...
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I wrote up the bright new bicoloured Pacific Coast Iris from Broadleigh Gardens , ‘Broadleigh Fenella' , before the show. Then when I talked to Christine Skelmersdale, who runs Broadleigh, down at the show I found that she had two unexpected new introductions that she was showing at the Chelsea Flower...
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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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Getting clematis ready for the Chelsea Flower Show can be tricky. The later flowering types in particular can be hard to encourage into flower in May and of course at the same time there's also the need to keep the early ones at their peak. Thorncroft Clematis had earmarked a number of newcomers...
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The Eagle Sweet Peas display is a little oasis of tradition and calm in the Great Pavilion of the Chelsea Flower Show , their lovely Silver-Gilt Medal winning display showing off old favourites as well as three bright new introductions. I wrote about ‘Leominster Boy' before the Show, but they also...
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The Kelways peony tradition goes back a long way. Founded in 1851, Kelways have introduced more peonies than any other British nursery - by a long way - and perhaps more peonies than any nursery in the world. This year on the Silver Medal winning display at the Chelsea Flower Show they had a new tree...
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There are five ways of finding new plants at the Chelsea Flower Show apart, of course, from just looking at each and every exhibit. * Some exhibitors make a point of sending out a press release in advance of the show announcing their new varieties. That's great. * Some nurseries put out a press release...
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Did you see the piece about the Winchester Growers dahlia exhibit on BBC Two's nightly programme on the Chelsea Flower Show tonight? Not much about the display itself, just a few words with a deservedly thrilled John Wheatcroft who put it all together, some superficial discussion about eating dahlias...
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