The United Kingdom’s Garden Retail Award for this year’s ‘Best New Plant’ has been bestowed upon the impressive, innovative Foxglove ‘Illumination Pink’ Digitalis.
Entrants competing for the coveted Best New Plant Variety award were required to ‘demonstrate innovation and fill a gap in the market for the amateur gardener’. The groundbreaking Foxglove did so more than any of the other entries according to the jury.
“‘Illumination Pink’ is a triumph of plant breeding”, Thompson & Morgan’s product development manager Michael Perry commented on the prize as he received it. “It was thought to be impossible, but we managed to create this beautiful new hybrid”, he continued.
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