Exhibitors

New plant launches in the Great Pavilion

Many nurseries use the RHS Chelsea Flower Show to showcase their new plant launches for the year. Below are the ones we've been told about.

New plants from nurseries A-B
New plants from nurseries C-E
New plants from nurseries F-I
New plants from nurseries J-O
New plants from nurseries P-Z

Cayeux Iris

Iris ‘Romance’ Pink white standards, white falls with a beautiful sky blue border and a red beard that lights up the pastel colouring.

Iris ‘Clownerie’ A pale lavender pink flower with a clear purple border on the falls.

Iris ‘Ravissant’ Lilac, pink and white flowers giving a fresh, crisp effect, bearing up to 10 buds.

Iris ‘Coup de Soleil’ An unrivalled vivid orange
Iris ‘Funambule’ A big, arresting bi-colour with butter yellow standards contrasting strongly against very dark violet-purple falls
Iris ‘Je L’Adore’ A pretty pink with lacy edges
Iris ‘Noctambule’ A 'night owl in an evening dress', a velvety blue-black amoena which is getting close to Richard Cayeux’s dream of creating a pure black and white iris!

D'Arcy & Everest

Coreopsis auriculata ‘Elfin Gold’
Stachys byzantina ‘Silken Fleece’

David Austin Roses

Rosa ‘Princess Alexandra of Kent’ (Ausmerchant) A pure soft pink rose in the style of the Bourbon roses. The fragrance begins as a tea scent in the young flower, develops to lemon, and ends as blackcurrant.

Rosa Ausingrid A very dark red with a strong fragrance with hints of blackberry, blueberry and damson.

Rosa Ausprior A very light cream rose with a fragrance based on myrrh.

Rosa Auslofty Can be grown as a shrub or a climber, the flowers form a flat rosette when fully open. The colour fades from soft yellow to cream whilst the inner petals fade from rich apricot/peach to rich yellow/peach.

Rosa Ausimple Not unlike the Corvedale in appearance but is more of a compact shrub with a dark rose pink colour. Its light musky fragrance is not unlike cooked Bramley apple and cloves!

Dibleys Nurseries

Streptocarpus ‘Chloe’ A small flat-faced flowering variety which produces up to 13 flowers per stem. Flowers are pale pink with rich red-purple veins over the lower lobes.

Streptocarpus ‘Iona’ A pretty violet-purple flower which fades to orange/red around the throat.

Streptocarpus ‘Seren’ New colour break of vibrant yellow that has taken eight generations and more than 3,000 seedlings to achieve. ‘Seren’ means ‘star’ in Welsh.

Downderry Nursery

Lavandula angustifolia ‘Elizabeth’
Lavandula angustifolia ‘Garden Beauty’

Eagle Sweet Peas

‘Banty’ A rose pink, awarded the AGM
‘Colleen Mary’ Salmon on cream coloured flower
‘Misty’ A mauve flush flower

Chelsea Flower Show 2007