How will this year's Chelsea new plant winner -Sedum 'Atlantis' - appeal to garden centre market?Sales of top three in RHS new plant award could reach one million after exposure

摘要

An unusual choice, Sedum 'Atlantis', entered by Suttons and displayed by the National Dahlia Collection, won the RHS Chelsea Flower Show new plant award for 2019. Several plants on the longlist that on the surface have more commercial appeal did not reach optimum flower levels at Chelsea, while one or two contenders, such as Dryopteris 'Jurassic Gold', were not entered.However, the top three plants could sell more than one-million units between them, such is the power of the Chelsea effect. "Plants for our times" characteristics such as dwarfness, to suit small gardens, and drought-tolerance, for Britain's drier summers, emerged as big themes across shortlisted plants.