This year's RHS Plant of the Year 2025 has been announced direct from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The Plant of the Year is a competition held by the RHS to highlight new developments and innovations among the world of growers. The plants are all new to the UK and/or available for UK gardeners to buy since last year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show. You may also like: Tickets, information and what to expect at Chelsea Discover all our up-to-the-minute Chelsea news Chelsea Flower Show Gardens 2025: discover the full list How to design a garden at Chelsea Sign up to our Chelsea newsletter Eighteen plants that have a 'new or improved feature' were on the shortlist, including an easy-to-grow orange salvia, two hostas, a fuchsia with a long flowering season, a dark purple and green miscanthus, a weeping, winter-flowering ornamental cherry that is suitable for all sizes of garden and containers and a hemerocallis that flowers for up to seven days.…