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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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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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Harkness Roses is one of those grand old rose nurseries that seem to have been around for ever - 130 years, actually - and since 1959 they've been breeding new varieties. Ever since I started going to the Chelsea Flower Show , many years ago, they've used the show to launch their newcomers and...
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Every year, David Austin (Great Pavilion, C22) introduces a collection of his new roses at the Chelsea Flower Show . In case you've been in tight seclusion for the last twenty five years, David Austin's English Roses are, basically, long flowering roses in the old style: they mostly have the...
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New roses are always a big thing at the Chelsea Flower Show , but gone are the days of eight or ten rose nurseries all vying for our attention. Things have changed, there are just three rose nurseries this ear, the new roses are more varied and, it has to be said, often more interesting. Peter Beales...
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From now for the next three weeks you'll find more posts than usual here on my RHS New Plants blog as I bring you updates on all the hot new plants revealed at this year's Chelsea Flower Show . Yes, the plan is to cover every single one. And last year there were almost a hundred . I've been...
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