The short list annunciate on Sunday good afternoon for RHS Chelsea Flower Show ’s industrial plant of the Year admit six of Thompson & Morgan ’s entrants . This beats last twelvemonth ’s tally of five plants , two of which went on to be placed first and third blank space .
The shortlist of 20 plantswill now be debate by a panel of Royal Horticultural Society ( RHS ) judges and the top three winning plants will be announced Monday .
The six plant on the short list of twenty are :
Osteospermum ‘ Purple Sun ’ - antecedently unobserved color combination of Orange River and pinkish . The pinkish - majestic essence propagate outwards on the fade - resistant petals as the time of year progresses .
Nepeta ‘ Neptune ’ - Abundant bloom ‘ rebloom ’ on a compact , bushy drug abuse ; firm foliage is perfect for micturate teatime .
Clematis ‘ Kokonoe ’ - Uniquely changing flower shape ; flowers open as exclusive flower and build up into showy double .
Ajuga ‘ Princess Nadia ’ - Brings together the best evergreen , motley foliage and bloom spikes of the genus . Year - round interest .
Chlorophytum ' Starlight ' - Hardy Spider Plant with the architectural appeal of an cosmetic grass and the flowering performance of a bedding plant . Attractive variegated leafage and somewhat white flowers .
Agapanthus ‘ Fireworks ’ - The best bicolour agapanthus , tender swelled blooms , full colour and more stems per plant than premature bicolour cultivars .
Thompson & Morgan ’s new Cartesian product development managing director , Peter Freeman say : “ We could n’t be more pleased to hear the news that six of our plants are on the short list . To have placed six out of the twenty on the tilt is an amazing feat . We thought we ’d done well last class to have five on the listing , so to improve on that is incredible ! Everyone at Thompson & Morgan is keeping everything traverse while we await the judges ’ decisiveness later on today . ”
All of Thompson & Morgan ’s flora entries are featured on the Behind the Genes garden which has been devised and built in partnership with Sparsholt College in Hampshire . The garden , in the Discovery area of the Great Pavilion ( Stand GPA154 ) , offer up a visually inspiring insight into the processes of flora breeding and explains technique used to bring about improvements in plant metal money .
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