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

Hardy Plant Society

Thymus ‘Marjorie’, raised by Margaret Easter and named after her mother. Margaret holds a National Collection of Thymus and is a member of the Hertfordshire Group.

Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants

Physocarpus ‘Lady in Red’ Bright young foliage on a compact plant, the flowers are slightly pinker than other forms bred by John and Sue Tuite from Spalding.

Salvia patens ‘Dot’s Delight’ Pretty blue and white flowers (a breakthrough in patens variety as the first two-tone flower)

Verbena ‘Seabrook’s Lavender’ A chance lavender seedling found by Peter Seabrook in his Essex garden. It makes an excellent container and hanging basket plant.

Harkness Roses

Rosa ‘Belmonte’ A pearl-coloured floribunda with a slight citrus fragrance.
Rosa ‘Carris’ A red hybrid tea with a light fragrance. The right to name this rose was donated to BBC Children in Need 2006 as an auction prize.
Rosa ‘Parky’ (left) A white shrub rose in honour of TV presenter Michael Parkinson.
Rosa ‘Henrietta Barnett’ A gold floribunda with a spicy fragrance, fundraising on behalf of Hampstead Garden Suburb Centenary.

Also four new multi-blooms: ‘Harquiz’ (yellow), ‘Harruby’ (dark red), ‘Harping’ (apricot), ‘Harpaint’ (pink, yellow, white eye).

Hillier Nurseries

Albizia julibrissin ‘Summer Chocolate’ A graceful small tree
with fern-like warm chocolate-coloured foliage. Complemented by pink, fluffy flower heads in late summer on mature plants.

Cornus sericea ‘Hedgerows Gold’
A new form of red osier dogwood from North-west USA. Young leaves have a pronounced yellow margin becoming creamy-white with age.

Phormium ‘All Black’ A new form of New Zealand flax with very dark purplish-black foliage.

Berberis thunbergii ‘Golden Touch’ A small shrub with bright golden foliage which develops warm pink tints in autumn.
Juncus ‘Curly Gold Strike’ A new form of quirky rush with gold line curls along the spiraling leaves and stems.
Spiraea x vanhouttei ‘Gold Fountain’ An unusual form of Spiraea with golden-yellow scalloped-edged leaves, with clusters of white flowers in summer.

H W Hyde & Son

A new range of double-flowered, pollen-free, Oriental hybrid lilies, the ‘Lady’ series, including Lilium ‘Lady Annabella’ (left).