Forgive me, readers, for I have sinned. It’s been nineteen days since my last post.

How time flies when you’re blogging furiously elsewhere. I’m just back from England where I was writing up all the new plants at the largest flower show in the world – the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show - for my Royal Horticultural Society New Plants blog. I haven't yet counted up all the new plants I discovered - it must be nearly a hundred and there were some stunners - but I ran fifty posts in three weeks. Begin here and work back to the starting point on 1 July. I’ll be posting a full list of all the plants I discovered here at Transatlantic Plantsman as soon as I can get it together and add in all the links.

Lots of new perennials including eleven heucheras and related plants from the USA and some intriguing new roses. The Julia Child ('Wekvossutono') rose (above) was launched in Britain for the first time under the name Absolutely Fabulous ('Wekvossutono'). And it’s because roses (more than most plants) have their marketing names changed for the different countries in which they’re sold – no one in Britain has even heard of Julia Child – that we need that cultivar name in brackets carried with the marketing name so we all know they’re the same rose.

Amongst the other plants I especially liked were a new, as yet unnamed three way hybrid Gladiolus; some extraordinary “hairy” alliums for cut flower; a lovely dwarf fragrant Phalaenopsis hybrid; and a new pink trailing Campanula.

Normal service is now resuming here – and I’ll be posting that full list soon. In the meantime, check out the full list of new plants I found at the Chelsea Flower Show.