There are almost seventy new roses in this years RHS Plant Finder and I was especially taken with Lucky (‘Frylucy') which I wrote about last month over on my plants blog from the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show and which is the Rose of the Year for 2009. But there have been even more launched since... Read more..

Rose of the Year - Lucky! (‘Frylucy'). I wrote it up when it was launched at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show back in July. This fragrant and prolific Floribunda (cluster-flowered) rose features large clusters of flowers whose dark pink buds open to loose, wavy, lilac-pink flowers with a slightly... Read more..

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... Read more..

It's damp at Wisley as I write, but I'm sure the sun will return. To be honest, I'm out in China at the moment, at a Magnolia symposium. It has brought all the world's experts together for a unique event, with field trips to Nankinsham in Guangdong Province, before more to Shixi and Lushan... Read more..

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... Read more..

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... Read more..

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... Read more..

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... Read more..

There's never a dull moment at Wisley, despite the weather. June is a fabulous month to enjoy the colour, fragrance and beauty of roses. The Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden is progressing well, with levels in and paths taking shape. But, for this year, no roses (although there are some in the borders at the... Read more..

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... Read more..