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The Guardian - UK
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Jane Perrone

Chelsea flower show 2012: new plants - in pictures

Digitalis 'Illumination'
Winning one of Chelsea's coveted top prizes (RHS plant of the year), Digitalis 'Illumination' bred by Thompson & Morgan, is a beautiful foxglove with tropical colouring. Read more about this plant on Graham Rice's new plants blog for the RHS. Photograph: Julian Weigall/PR
Chelsea new plants: Clematis 'Shikoo'
Clematis 'Shikoo' from Thorncroft Clematis, is an early flowering large-flowered climber that reaches 6-8ft. Photograph: PR
Chelsea new plants: Agapanthus ‘Golden Drops’
Agapanthus ‘Golden Drops’ from Hoyland Plant Centre is a compact, evergreen agapanthus featuring leaves edged with golden stripes. It produces clusters of soft blue flowers from July to August and is suitable for pots or borders. Photograph: PR
Chelsea new plants: Diascia 'Bluebelle'
Diascia 'Bluebelle' from Penhow Nurseries flowers continuously from early spring to late autumn with larger-than-usual blooms in a stunning shade of blue. Photograph: PR
Chelsea new plants: Rosa ‘The Queen’s Jubilee Rose'
Rosa 'The Queen’s Jubilee Rose' from Peter Beales is a fragrant shrub rose with fully double goblet-shaped white blooms flushed with peach. Photograph: PR
Chelsea new plants: Choisya 'Aztec Gold'
Choisya 'Aztec Gold' from Hillier Nurseries has golden, aromatic foliage made up of waxy and weather resistant slender leaflets. It flowers in spring and early summer and then again in autumn, producing almond-scented white flowers. Photograph: PR
Chelsea new plants: Iris 'Poilly S'éveille'
Iris 'Poilly S'éveille' from Cayeux Iris is a late-flowering, ruffled iris in soft rosy apricot.
Photograph: Cayeux Iris
Chelsea new plants: Hosta ‘Panni Splash’
Hosta ‘Panni Splash’ from Brookfield Plants has blue-green, irregular leaf margins with a two-tone yellow-green centre. Nearly round leaf with a heart-shaped base, slightly dimpled when mature. 'Panni Splash' is currently undergoing propagation and expected to be commercially available later in the year. Photograph: PR
Chelsea new plants: Clematis 'Countess of Wessex'
Clematis 'Countess of Wessex' from Raymond Evison is a compact climber with pale pink flowers that's ideal for brightening a shady corner of the garden. Photograph: PR
Chelsea new plants: Lilium 'Cream Tea'
Lilium 'Cream Tea' from HW Hyde is an oriental trumpet hybrid lily that produces huge, highly scented flowers that will grow in any good soil. Photograph: PR
Chelsea new plants: Rosa 'Royal Jubilee'
Rosa 'Royal Jubilee' from David Austin is a bushy, medium-sized rose that sports globular, deep-pink blooms with a fruity fragrance said to resemble blackcurrant tea.
Photograph: Howard Rice
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