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Most of the new plants at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show are to be found on the exhibits in the Floral Marquee . But out on the Plant Plots , the outdoor exhibits grouped in clusters behind the Floral Marquee and in front of the Tudor Rose Festival , I spotted three new double-flowered echinaceas... Read more..

Carnivorous plants, and the Venus Fly Trap ( Dionaea ) in particular, seem to hold an eternal fascination but until you take a moment to look at a whole collection you don't realise how many different types there are. And amongst the plants in the National Collection on display from Essex Carnivorous... Read more..

The variety of new plants that are to be found at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show is amazing. On the way to see the Venus Fly Traps I spotted the three new double echinaceas outside the Tudor Rose Festival marquee and then heading back to the Press Tent for coffee I was able to chat to Colin Boswell... Read more..

Agapanthus are everywhere at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show this year and there were two newcomers on show from the Hoyland Plant Centre in Yorkshire. Agapanthus ‘Yorkshire Dream' is a lovely new variegated form. A seedling of A. praecox , the variegation is unusually luminous and, unlike so... Read more..

We always associate Sarah Conibear and Westcountry Nurseries with enthusiasm for popularising lupins but they now grow a far wider range of plants. And on their Plant Plot exhibit at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show , I spotted a new Gaura . Gaura ‘Vanilla' is striking for two things: the purity... Read more..

I started off this mini-series on the new plants introduced at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show this week by Plantagogo with a Tiarella , then last time I focused on Heuchera and this time it's the hybrids between the two - x Heucherella . There are two newcomers. x Heucherella ‘Sweet Tea'... Read more..

There's an increasing interest developing in gladioli and while there are new introductions in the traditional style are on show at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show there are also new varieties which hark back to the wild species. Pheasant Acre Plants had two new seedlings, as yet un-named, which... Read more..

In recent years Suttons Seeds has pioneered a completely modern approach to the old idea of growing tomato plants by grafting named fruiting varieties on to special rootstocks - in the same way as apples. They demonstrated their new ideas of grafting vegetables in the Growing Tastes marquee at the Hampton... Read more..

Goldbrook Plants have staged some of the most impressive Hosta exhibits of recent years. They've won seventeen consecutive Gold Medals at the Chelsea Flower Show and nineteen consecutive Gold Medals the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show including a Gold this week at Hampton . Sandra Bond, who IS Goldbrook... Read more..

C & K Jones have some great new roses at this year's Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Earlier I talked about ‘Josephine' and about their Rose of the Year ‘Absolutely Fabulous' . But I also took a look their other two newcomers. One of the recurring themes of the new roses introduced... Read more..