Plant Heritage Threatened Plant of the Year 2023, showcased at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival
The winner of the Threatened Plant of the Year’ competition was announced at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival from 4-9 July 2023.
See the 2023 winners and shortlist
Past winners have included a rare camellia, growing in a back garden in Edinburgh, a peony bred by the renowned nursery Kelways, and a dwarf Clematis montana, selected from a plant collected in China over 100 years ago.
The entry criteria: Do you have an unusual, rare or special cultivar that is not currently available commercially? It must be a named cultivar that has been grown or sold in the UK or Ireland prior to 2013. Full details of the competition here
Who could enter: Anyone (you do not have to be a Plant Heritage member) can enter up to 5 different cultivars.
Closing date: Sun 20th May 2023
How to enter: Entries have now closed for the year
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Paeonia 'Gleam Of Light'
© C Stone
Aeonium arboreum 'Albovariegatum'
© M Lewis
Rosa 'Sir Winston Churchill'
© John Moore