Last time I told you about the winner and the two runners up for the Chelsea Plant of The Year 2013. This time, I’m going to set out where you can buy all twenty of the shortlisted plants, or who will be selling them when they become available. These are twenty of the best new plants around, and all are well worth trying.
Chelsea Plant of the Year 2013
Mahonia eurybracteata subsp. ganpinensis ‘Soft Caress’
Crocus
Gardening Express
Chelsea Plant of the Year 2013 Runners-Up
Clematis ‘Lemon Dream’
Thorncroft Clematis
Tropaeolum ‘Fruit Salad’
Thompson & Morgan
Chelsea Plant of the Year 2013 Shortlised Plants
Aeonium ‘Poldark’
Trewidden Nursery (available to order in June 2013)
Allium schoenoprasum (Chives) ‘Cha Cha’
Suttons
Billbergia ‘Hallelujah’
Every Picture (not available to order at the time of writing)
Clematis ‘Kaiser’ (top)
Thorncroft Clematis
Diascia Sundiascia Rose Pink
Dobies
Hayloft Plants
Suttons
Unwins
Heuchera ‘Thomas’ (Fox Series)
Plantagogo (not available to order at the time of writing)
Lathyrus odoratus ‘Chelsea Centenary’
Mr Fothergills
Lavandula angustifolia Platinum Blonde (‘Momparler’)
Gardening Express
Leucanthemum x superbum ‘Real Neat’
Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants
Simply Seeds and Plants
Lilium ‘Sweet Desire’
H W Hyde & Son (not available to order at the time of writing)
Lilium ‘Zirconia’
H W Hyde & Son (not available to order at the time of writing)
Lupinus nanus ‘Snow Pixie’
Not yet available
Nepeta grandiflora ‘Summer Magic’ (right)
Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants
Rosa Dunham Massey (‘Beajelly’)
Peter Beales Roses
Strawberry ‘Malling Centenary’
DT Brown
Marshalls
Thompson & Morgan
Streptocarpus ‘Harlequin Damsel’
Dibleys Nurseries
Viola ‘Windmill’
Victorian Violas (not available to order at the time of writing)
Editor-in-Chief of the RHS Encyclopedia of Perennials; writer for a wide range of newspapers and magazines including The Garden and The Plantsman; member of the RHS Herbaceous Plant Committee and Floral Trials Committee; author of many books on plants and gardens.
Source: RHS My Garden – Chelsea Plant Of The Year – Where to Buy the Contenders – Graham Rice
