NEW National Plant Collections awarded June 2025 

Ajuga species & cultivars held by Surrey Group, Plant Heritage; Camellia sasanqua & Camellia sinensis, Tregothnan Estate; Cornwall, Camellia (heritage collection) at Worth Park, Sussex; Cymbidium, The Mathers Foundation, Sussex; 
Eriosyce, Victoria Davies, Sussex; Iris – Bearded irises of the early 20th Century, Sir Roderick Newton, Suffolk; Malus domestica (Gloucestershire apple cultivars),  Gloucestershire Orchards Trust; Pershore College (plants raised by and associated with), Worcestershire; Philadelphus (bred by Lemoine), Whatton House, Leicestershire; Pinguicula (Mexican  S. American), Wack’s Wicked Plants, Yorkshire; Sarracenia purpurea & rosea, Paul Katz, Norfolk; Stapeliads, Clive Russell, Dorset; Tetrapanax, English Heritage Walmer Castle, Kent; Veronica longifolia & Veronica spicata, Penny Whitehurst, Staffordshire

and September 2025

Asimina triloba (North American pawpaw) Stuart Senior, Somerset; Bistorta amplexicaulis, Helen Picton and Ross Barbour, Old Court Nurseries & Picton Gardens, Worcestershire; Cacti (as mentioned by Richard Evans Schultes), George Holmes, Gloucestershire; Corylopsis species and cultivars, Diane Corbett, Pembrokeshire; Dierama species, University of Exeter, Devon; Dionaea muscipula cultivars & hybrids, Ian Ladd, North Lincolnshire; Ferns (British native and naturalised aliens), Dr Alison Evans, Lancashire; Ferns (Polypodiopsida) Native Welsh species, Treborth Botanic Garden, Gwynedd; Malus domestica (17^th Century cultivars), Hatfield Park, Hertfordshire; Nymphaea (Ken Warner Memorial collection), Graham Warner at Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex; Origanum vulgare cultivars, David Barrett, Gwynedd; Orobanche, University of Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum, Oxfordshire; Pelargonium Deacon cultivars, Stella Abrahams, Hertfordshire; Philadelphus (bred by Lemoine), Richard Marshall, Gloucestershire; Sequoia sempervirens & cultivars,  RHS Garden, Wisley, Surrey.

The existing collection of Oncidium held by The Mathers Foundation in Sussex, has been additionally awarded Scientific status