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Awards given to plants in 2002 after trial and final reports

The Award of Garden Merit was given to the following plants:
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INVITED FLORAL TRIALS

CANNA 2002 (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)

'Alaska' (H3)
'Amundsen' (H3)
'Annaeei' (H3)
'Aphrodite' (H3)
C. × ehemanii (H3)
'Erebus' (H3)
'General Eisenhower' (H3)
'Ingeborg' (H3)
'Louis Cayeux' (H3)
'Musifolia' (H3)
'Mystique' (H3)
'Picasso' (H3)
'Ra' (H3)
'Roi Soleil' (H3)
'Russian Red' (H3)
'Schwäbische Heimat' (H3)
'Shenandoah' (H3)
TROPICANNA ('Phasion') [PBR] (H3)
'Verdi' (H3)
'Whithelm Pride' (H3)
'Wyoming' (H3)
'Striata' (H3)

INULA 2000-2002

Inula magnifica 'Sonnenstrahl' (H4)

PELARGONIUM from seed 2002 - updated with pictures

'Black Velvet Rose' (H3)
'Black Velvet Scarlet' (H3)
'Maverick Scarlet' (H3)
'Moulin Rouge' (H3)
'Orange Appeal' (H3)
'Pulsar Deep Rose' (H3)
'Sensation Scarlet' (H3)
'Vogue Carmine Red' (H3)
'Vogue Red' (H3)

PETUNIA 2002 - updated with pictures

Vegetatively propagated, suitable for growing in pots and hanging baskets

'Cascadias Yellow Eye = 'Dancasye' (H3)
'Charlie's Angels Champagne' (H3)
'Charlie's Angel Charlie' (H3)
'Conchita Blueberry Frost' = 'Conblue' (H3)
'Conchita Cranberry Frost' = 'Concran' (H3)
'Conchita Evening Glow' = 'Conglow' (H3)
'Conchita Strawberry Frost' = 'Constraw' (H3)
'Happy Dream' = 'Danpethap' (H3)
'Surfinia Pink Vein' = 'Suntosol' (H3)
'Surfinia Purple' = 'Shihi Brilliant' (H3)
'Surfinia Purple Vein' = 'Sunpurve' (H3)
'Surfinia Sky Blue' = 'Keilavbu' (H3)
Lavender Plume 'Kerlav'
'Fluor Purple-Rose'

RUDBECKIA 1999 - 2002

Rudbeckia fulgida var. deamii AGM (H4) 1993 RECONFIRMED 2002
Rudbeckia fulgida var. speciosa (H4)
Rudbeckia laciniata 'Goldkugel' (H4)
Rudbeckia 'Goldquelle' AGM (H4) 1993 RECONFIRMED 2002

Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii 'Goldsturm' AGM (H4) 1993 RECONFIRMED 2002
Rudbeckia laciniata 'Herbstsonne' AGM (H4)

SILPHIUM 1999 - 2002

Silphium perfoliatum (H4)

SOLIDAGO / x SOLIDASTER 2000 - 2002

Solidago 'Gardone' (H4)

ZINNIA from seed 2002 - updated with pictures

'Benary's Giant Lilac' (H3)
'Dasher Orange' (H3)
'Dasher Pink' (H3)
'Dreamland Mixed' (H3)
'Dreamland Rose' (H3)
'Dreamland Scarlet' (H3)
'Dreamland Yellow' (H3)
'Oklahoma Mixed' (H3)
'Peter Pan Gold' (H3)
'Profusion Orange' (H3)
'Profusion White' (H3)
'Short Stuff Orange' (H3)
'Starbright Orange' (H3)

SPECIALIST GROUPS - LONG TERM TRIALS

BORDER CARNATION

'John Sandall' (H4)
'Betty's Pink' (H4)
'Leon Tautz' (H4)

GARDEN CHRYSANTHEMUM

Spray cultivars
'Purple Talbot Parade' [29c Pu] (H3)
'Yellow Mancetta Bride' [29a Y] (H3)

Cushion 'Mums
'Lautrec' (H3)
Sunny Linda - 'Sunny Lindayo' [22c Y] (H3)
'Tightrope' (H3)
'Turner' (H3)

DAFFODIL

'Boslowick' (H4)
'Dickcissel' (H4)
'Drumlin' (H4)
'Hoopoe' (H4)
'Lemon Drops' (H4)
'Manly' (H4)
'Silent Valley' (H4)
'Unique' (H4)

DAHLIA

Dwarf Bedding
'Chessy' (H3)
Gallery Series 'Gallery Cobra' (H3)

Miniature Decorative
'Catherine Bateson' (H3)

DELPHINIUM

'Galileo' AGM (H4)

MINIATURE and DWARF PINKS

'Pixie Star' (H4)
'Calypso Star' (H4)
'Brilliant Star' (H4)
'India Star' (H4)
'Night Star' (H4)

IRIS ENSATA

'Chance Beauty' (H4)

IRIS SIBIRICA

'Blaue Milchstrasse' (H4)
'Bournemouth Beauty' (H4)
'Exuberant Encore' (H4)
'Granny Jean' (H4)
'Lavendelwein' (H4)
'Siobhan' (H4)
'Trim the Velvet' (H4)

IRIS SPURIA

'Driftwood' (H4)
'Kitt Peak' (H4)
'Love for Leila' (H4)
'Monspur Cambridge Blue' (H4)
'Sonoran Senorita' (H4)
'Sunrise in Sonora' (H4)
'Sunset Colors' (H4)
'Wyoming Cowboys' (H4)

SWEET PEA at Wisley and RHS Garden Harlow Carr

'Bobby's Girl' (H4)
'Brook Hall' (H4)
'Cathy' (H4)
'First Flame' (H4)
'Solway Serenade' (H4)
'Sunset' (H4)

 

VEGETABLES

BEAN, DWARF FRENCH, WAX PODDED,
IN THE OPEN GROUND

'Berggold' (H3)
'Golddukat' (H3)
'Orinoco' (H3)
'Sonesta' (H3)

CABBAGE, POINTED,
FOR SUMMER CROPPING

Cape Horn' F1 (H3-4)
'Excel' F1 (H3-4)
'Greyhound' (H3-4)
'Hispi' F1 (H3-4) (AGM (H3) 1993)
'Marshalls Kingspi' F1 (H3-4)
'Pyramid' F1 (H3-4) AGM (H4) 1994 (spring)
'Spitfire' F1 (H3-4)

CAULIFLOWER

'Autumn Glory' AGM (H3)
'Aviso' F1 AGM (H3)
'Belot' AGM (H3)
'Minneapolis' F1 AGM (H3)
'Moby Dick' F1 AGM (H3)
'Pavilion' AGM (H3)
'Regata' AGM (H3)
'Skywalker' F1 AGM (H3)
'Talbot' AGM (H3)
'Valtos' F1 AGM (H3)
'White Excel' F1 AGM (H3)

CHICORY, INCLUDING RADICCHIO AND ENDIVE,
IN THE OPEN GROUND

Frisée endive 'Frisée Glory' (H3)
Frisée endive 'Lassie' (H3)
Frisée endive 'Wallonne' (H3)
Scarole endive 'Jeti' (H3)
Radicchio 'Indigo' (H3)
Radicchio 'Palla Rossa' (H3)
Sugar Loaf 'Pan di Zucchero' (H3)
Sugar Loaf 'Zuckerhut' (H3)
Raddicchio 'Leonardo' (H3)

CUCUMBER, (ALL FEMALE CULTIVARS, EXCLUDING GHERKINS)
IN PLASTIC TUNNEL

'Athene' F1 (H2) (AGM(H1-2)1993)
'Birgit' F1 (H2)
'Carmen' F1 (H2)
'Carmen' F1 (H2)
'Macao' F1 (H2)
'Teide' F1 (H2)
'Tyria' F1 (H2)
'Zeina' F1 (H2)

LEEK
TO CROP DECEMBER ONWARDS

'Apollo' F1(H4)
'Conora' (Blue Green Autumn Group) (H4)
'Jolant' (Swiss Giant Group) (H4)
'Kajak' (H4)
'Laura' (Blue Green Winter Group) (H4)
'Mammoth Pot' (H4)
'Oarsman' (H4)
'Poristo' (Blue Green Autumn Group) (H4)
'Toledo' (H4)

LETTUCE, BUTTERHEAD, FOR SUMMER CROPPING

'Enya' (H3)
'Plenty' (H3)
'Titan' (H3)
'Cassandra' (H3)
'Fatima' (H3)
'Diana' (H3)
'Sangria' (H3)
'Roxy' (H3)
'Clarion' (H3) (re-confirmed (H3) 1997 ,for autumn cropping in frames)
'Lilian' (H3) (re-confirmed (H3) 1993)
'Sunny' (H3) (re-confirmed (H3) 1997, for autumn cropping in frames)

ONIONS, FROM SETS,
SPRING PLANTED

'Hercules', F1(H3)
'Jagro' F1(H3)
'Autumn Gold Improved' (H3)
'Setton' F1(H3)
'Stuttgarter' (applies to Unwins maintenance only) (H3)
'Centurion' F1 (H3) (re-confirmed AGM (H3) 1993)
'Sturon' AGM (H3) (re-confirmed AGM (H3) 1993)

RADISH
GROWN IN PLASTIC TUNNEL

'Cyros' F1 AGM (H2-3) 2002 [in plastic tunnel] AGM (H3) 1996 [April crop, sown in open ground]
'Flamboyant' (H2-3)
'Marabelle' AGM (H2-3) 2002 [in plastic tunnel] AGM (H3) 1996 re-confirmed 2000 [March crop, sown under fleece]
'Mirabeau' F1 AGM (H2-3) 2002 [in plastic tunnel] AGM (H3) 2000 [March crop, sown under fleece]
'Rougette' AGM (H2-3) 2002 [in plastic tunnel] AGM (3) 2000 [March crop, sown under fleece]
'Rudi' (H2-3)
'Saxa' (Organic) (H2-3)
'Sunto' F1 (H2-3)

SPINACH
AUGUST SOWN TO CROP AUTUMN

'Campania' F1 (H3)
'Emilia' F1 (H3)
'Grodane' F1 (H3)
'Scenic' F1 (H3)
'Spartacus' F1 (H3)
'Spokane' F1 AGM (H3) 2002 AGM (H3)1996 re confirmed 2000 for summer cropping
'Toscane' F1 (H3)
'Trinidad' F1 AGM (H3) 2002 AGM (H3) 2000 for summer cropping

SWEDE
AT ROSEMOOR

'Brora' (H4)
'Magres' (H4)
'Ruby' (H4)
'Wilhelmsburger' (H4)

FRUIT

STRAWBERRY
Early-mid season