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This Acanthus is smaller growing than the more usually found A.
mollis. It is similar in height and usefulness as A. spinosus.
In this case however the leaves are much more jagged and the flowers
are whiter. A. caroli-alexandri makes a mound of handsome dark
green glossy leaves and one metre tall, stiff strong spires of
hooded white flowers during late spring and summer. Happy in tough
conditions in shade but equally good in the sun. Drought tolerant.
100cm x 80 cm.
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Why do gardeners and nurserymen always use the word gold to describe
any yellowish plant or flower? Acanthus ‘Hollards Gold’
has all the virtues of its race, tough, drought and shade tolerant,
handsome in foliage and flower but its new leaves are lime green
not gold. A beautiful addition to this group making foliage mounds
a yard high by as much wide and flowering spikes up to 150cm. Sun
or shade.
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I was struck by a very tall flowering Acanthus whilst driving
through Bendigo on the way back home from Benalla Botanica a few
years ago. With 3 metre tall flower stems it was by far the tallest
I’d ever seen The elderly lady who gave it to me said that
it had come, via a friend, from a grand old Bendigo garden. Like
all of its tribe this acanthus is tough, tolerant of dryness and
will grow in sun or shade. It has kept its tall stemmed habit
here. We cut acanthus to the ground in summer. 300cm x 120cm.
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Raised by one (perhaps the only one) of my horticultural heroes,
the late Alan Bloom, Achillea ‘Anthea’ is a seriously
good plant. From a tidy clump of greyish leaves, stiff upright leafy
stems carry flat heads of soft yellow flowers. Needs a sunny spot
and is drought tolerant. 70cm x 60cm.
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The best of the yellow flowered yarrows first sold in the year of
the Queen’s coronation. It makes well behaved evergreen mounds
of feathery silver-grey leaves. During late spring and summer 120cm
tall leafy stems support tiers of whitish, cottonwool like buds
which open in a long succession to flat plates of clear rich yellow
flower heads. A classic plant given the coveted Award of Garden
Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society. Sun. 120cm x 70cm.
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I’ve just started growing this plant during the last couple
of years. Achillea ‘Golden Plate’ did really well this
last summer in a hot dry windswept bed where even Lambs Ears died.
From non running clumps of rich green fern-like leaves, tall leafy
stems carry large plates some 12.5cm across, of dark yellow flowers.
Sun. 120cm x 100cm.
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Lemon Flowered Yarrow. A long flowered, relatively dwarf, lemon
flowered variety. Its low growing self-supporting habit makes this
a very useful plant. Beautiful in our dry garden planted with Rosa
sweginzowii especially when the rose carries its bright red hips.
Achilleas want nothing more than a sunny position and dividing every
year or two. This dividing and replanting lengthens the flowering
season considerably. Drought tolerant. 70cm x 60cm.
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One of the best new achilleas from Europe which has done very well
in our achillea trial beds. A well behaved, clump forming plant,
which doesn’t run at the root, this clone holds its rich cherry
red flower colour better than most of its kind. Nearly all achilleas
are better if they are lifted and divided every year or two. It’s
best to replant quite small divisions from the perimeter of the
clump as these are more vigorous than older woodier bits. 60cm x
50cm.
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Ernst Pagels, the great German nurseryman who did much breeding
work on ornamental grasses, took on achilleas at the age of 90 with
great success. The last time I was in England Pagels’ plants
were the stars at the RHS Achillea trials at Wisley. Achillea ‘Walter
Funcke’ has fabulous brick red flowers which age to creamy
orange. Neat and nonspreading this plant, like most other Achilleas,
is tough, sun loving and drought tolerant. 70cm x 60cm.
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This double variety was first reported growing in Monsieur Godefroy
- Lebouf’s garden in Argenteuil, France in the 1870s. We’ve
grown it at Lambley for more than 20 years. An evergreen, it produces
purple tinted soft lavender blue flowers some 20 to 30 to a head
on a 60cm tall stem The flowers are fully double and never set seed.
The evergreen foliage clumps are 30cm by 60cm. It is happy in full
sun or light shade and is tolerant of some dryness.
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This large flowered dwarf white variety hasn’t flowered here
yet. This originated in America where it is highly regarded. It
has evergreen arching leaves and flower stems some 70cm to 90cm
tall depending on conditions. The flower heads are large and round
with 50 to 80 flowers per head.
Happy in sun or light shade and tolerant of some dryness.
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Dennis Norgate gave me this variety and he rated it highly. It
has very large round heads of deep blue flowers over handsome
clumps of frost hardy evergreen leaves. One of the best evergreen
varieties. Sun or light shade. 120cm x 100cm. Large pot grown
plants.
$12.00 or 3 for $30.00
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This is one of our own seedlings which we raised 20 years ago. Good
sized heads of soft blue flowers on 80cm tall stems over arching
evergreen clumps of narrow dark green leaves. A beautiful frost
hardy long flowering plant for full sun or light shade. 80cm x 60cm.
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We raised this about 20 years ago and we rate it as one of the best
dwarf white flowered Agapanthus. It makes lovely low mounds of narrow
evergreen leaves and, during summer, 60cm tall stems carry large
heads of waxy white flowers opening from lime green buds. 60cm x
60cm.
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This fine new Dutch raised plant is a hybrid between the Korean
Agastache rugosa and the American Agastache foeniculum. Strong stiff
120 stems, clothed with softly bristly green leaves, are topped
by handsome mauve blue bottlebrush flower heads from about Christmas
time on into autumn. We’ve grown it in the dry garden this
year and it has done pretty well although it is happier where it
gets a tad more water. Sun. 120cm x 70cm.
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New to us so I’m guided by American experiences. This soft
leaved Agave is happy in sun or light shade and is hardy down to
about -4C. We are going to plant it in the shade of an olive tree
to give it some frost
protection. It makes a good pot specimen and can be brought under
the eaves in very cold areas. The rosettes will make a metre by
a metre and when mature produce a 3 to 4 metre tall stem carrying
yellow flowers. Drought tolerant.
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Blue-grey succulent leaves with contrasting reddish brown teethed
margins make grand rosettes some 80cm across. Growing wild on dry
South Africa hillsides Aloe glauca should be hardy in all but the
coldest districts although it is best planted in late spring in
areas where frosts are prevalent. Pinkish orange flowers are produced
on robust metre tall stems. Unhappy in summer rainfall areas. Sun.
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On a visit to England to meet my newly born grandson last year I
spent a day with my son Ric (who is now head gardener at Dulwich
Park in London) at Beth Chatto’s nursery near Colchester.
As usual her gardens were gorgeous. Anyway I bought this plant that
day. After a quarantine period we can now sell this beautiful white
flowered grey leaved Anthemis. If dead headed it will flower from
spring until autumn with only an occasional watering.
50cm x 90cm.
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I've just started growing this pure white form of Anthemis Tinctoria.
Like all of its kind it makes a metre wide mound of green feathered
leaves which are covered in large, well shaped white daisies from
mid spring until summer. An easily grown plant which needs very
little extra water this Anthemis is happy in any sunny well drained
spot in the garden. 60cm x 90cm.
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The late G.S. Thomas whose book Perennial Garden Plants is still
one of the best, describes Anthemis tinctoria as “A showy
and highly satisfactory garden plant producing a basal clump of
parsley-like leaves over which are sheaves of upturned yellow daisies,
on show for many weeks.” We cut the spent flower stems off
regularly to encourage a new flush of blooms. Needs sun and is tolerant
of some dryness. 90cm x 90cm.
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The late Phyll Bear gave me this shrubby plant 20 odd years ago.
For the last fifteen years it has flourished in the same spot in
the garden here at Lambley. Flowering from the first days of winter
until well into spring, soft butter lemon well formed daisies are
set off by the rue blue, oak shaped leaves. Handsome even when not
in flower, frost hardy and drought tolerant this plant wants a sunny
spot. 90cm x 90cm.
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This wormwood is one of the best evergreen silver foliaged groundcovers
making, in a season, a carpet of intensely silver leaves. I’ve
grown it in the stock beds which are watered no more than once a
fortnight during summer. Artemisia genipi is remarkably heat tolerant
given its origins in the Pyrenees and the Italian Alps. It has taken
this last blistering summer and autumn much better than this old
Pom. This plant would make a fine cover for dwarf bulbs. Sun. 5cm
x 40cm
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This is the low growing form of the Beach Wormwood making prostrate
mats of silver white oak shaped leaves. It has grown happily in
our stock beds with very little extra watering even through this
seemingly endless drought. 15cm x 40cm. Sun.
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We imported this from New Zealand a few years ago. It makes a very
useful addition to this group of shade loving evergreen perennials.
This dwarf rock lily has handsome arching sword shaped leaves and
produces masses of shooting star lily like flowers during spring
and summer. As frost below –3C will cut the foliage to the
ground gardeners with really cold winters should plant it in a sheltered
position. 30cm x 30cm.
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Asphodoline lutea makes neat evergreen tussocks of narrow fleshy
blue leaves. From mid spring until mid summer stiff strong vertical
stems carry a long succession of green tinged, acid yellow stars,
each petal having a marked green central vein. I got our stock from
Buda, a fine house and garden open to the public in Castlemaine,
about 15 years ago. The flower stems grow to 60cm in our dry garden
but will get taller in a more benign spot. Drought tolerant. 60cm
x 30cm.
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A southern European plant growing in pine woods, olive groves and
heavily grazed land from south west Spain to Greece. Evergreen with
us sometimes but summer dormant these last few years in our dry
climate garden. We grow it with Echinops ‘Veitch’s Blue’.
This asphodel makes 120cm tall branching spikes carrying hundreds
brown budded white stars and is in glory for a good eight weeks
during late spring and early summer. Sun or light shade.
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Aster 'Monte Cassino' is the best of the Easter Daisies with glistening
pure white flowers. Good dark green leafy self-supporting stems
are completely smothered in flowers around Easter time. This Dutch
raised variety is grown as a commercial cut flower. It's happiest
in full sun and needs a little extra summer irrigation to be at
its best. I'm planting a row of this Easter Daisy in the vegetable
garden this winter. 100cm x 80cm.
$8.00
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This plant is from dry woodland in the Mexican mountains. We grow
it in our dry climate garden both in the sun and under the shade
of an olive tree. Evergreen succulent rosettes some 90cm wide by
70 cm tall like a green leaved spineless agave are bold and handsome
the year round. 2 metre tall glossy red stemmed spikes carry dozens
of large red green tipped narrow bells during spring.
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I remember a beautifully grown plant of Buddleja Alternifolia grown
as standard in the walled garden at Cruden Farm. The arching willowy
branches were densely foliaged and in full bloom and what joy it
gave. Our plants are grown in a part of the garden which is never
watered and yet this Buddleja is still enormously generous with
its arching sprays of mauve flowers. Can be kept to about 2 metres
by 2 metres if cut back hard after flowering otherwise it will get
much larger.
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“The handsomest of all the Himalayan shrubs”
Sir Joseph Hooker. I’ve grown this, the largest flowered of
all the buddlejas for 20 or 30 years. It flowers with me quite early
on wood from the previous seasons growth. Besides dead heading it
needs no attention and I don’t cut it back much at all. Needs
summer water and good soil to flourish but worth any effort. 200cm
x 150cm. Sun or light shade.
$10.00 or
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Huge branching heads of rich lilac pink flowers on a medium sized
well branched shrub. We cut it back to about 90cm in late winter
or early spring. This hard pruning encourages the production large
terminal and good side panicles and a longer flowering period. Sun.
Tolerant of heat and drought. 3m x 2.5m. Recognised as one of the
best by the Royal Horticultural Society which gave this plant an
Award Of Garden Merit.
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This came from the Earl of Stair’s Scottish garden at Lochinch.
A fine plant winning the Royal Horticultural Society’s coveted
Award of Garden Merit. “…narrow panicles of sweetly
scented light lavender heliotrope blue flowers” on arching
branches of grey leaves. Neat growing, drought tolerant shrub
which I cut back to about a metre each winter. 200cm x 180cm.
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This is a selected cutting grown form of the old Dusty Miller with
finely cut very silver leaves on a much tidier plant then the type.
During spring it has a good display of soft lilac-mauve flowers
with contrasting purple anthers. It repeat flowers at odd times
throughout the year. 100cm. X 120cm. A tough and drought tolerant
plant for full sun which we find is best where it gets no water
at all or is forced to compete with tree roots. Takes shade.
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A tough evergreen, ground cover forming a dense carpet of pewtergreen
pinnate leaves with silver reverse. This plant grows wild on dry
rocky Turkish hillsides I’ve planted it in the dry garden
to form a mat beneath the American succulent, Hesperaloe parvifolia,
with Turkish bulbs, crocus, alliums, wild tulips and reticulata
iris. Centaurea simplicicaulis produces mauve pink cornflowers held
singly on wiry stems 20cm above the foliage. Foliage mounds 9cm
x 30cm. Sun.
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An uncommon plant (probably because it is so difficult to propagate)
this white flowered form of C. Willmottiana has been a fixture in
the blue, white and yellow border just outside my office for nigh
in 15 years. An attractive green leaved twiggy shrub it is covered
in large showy heads of white flowers from mid summer until late
autumn when the foliage blazes red orange and yellow. Tough, drought
tolerant plant happiest in full sun. 80cm x 90cm.
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This beautiful Clematis, introduced as early as 1885, has been a
star in our double flower borders for 10 years or more. Every year
it covers an area of trellis some 2 metres by 2 metres and is so
free with its deep purple, white centred flowers that hardly a leaf
is to be seen during late spring and summer. I cut it down to 20cm
during early winter.
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One of the larger flowered varieties that is both vigorous and relatively
easy to grow. Large well formed mauve flowers are produced in late
spring and early summer and if cut hard back after the first flowering
it will repeat in the autumn. It grows to about 2 metres. Cut to
about 20cm in winter.
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Convolvulus ‘Moroccan Beauty’ has large silver blue,
upward facing moons on a ground hugging evergreen plant, tough,
sun loving and drought tolerant. I cut it back to 6 inch mounds
each winter to provoke vigorous new growth in the spring. One patch
in the dry garden is underplanted with bulbs, Arum creticum, Tulipa
marjolettii and Brodiaea elegans amongst others. 6cm x 80cm.
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The magenta eye bleeding into the white of the petal makes a very
striking effect. A decent group of five or six plants a yard across
will have hundreds of flowers out at any one time from early summer
into the autumn. It has thread-like dark glossy green foliage.
We used several hundred as bedding plants in front of Dahlia ‘Fire
Mountain’ in our vegetable garden one year. It looked marvellous.
Needs a sunny spot, reasonable soil and summer irrigation to do
well. 40cm x 30cm.
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I planted this uncommon Cordyline when Criss and I first moved
to Ascot 16 years ago. It hasn’t had a drop of extra water
in all that time, flourishing with buddlejas and wormwoods. It
makes a single trunked plant with a crown of cream and green variegated
leaves, long narrow and arching. 3 metres tall after 16 years.
It is happy in sun or light shade.
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This is a very tall flowered, frost hardy summer blooming form of
Cotyledon orbiculata. Many forms are grown in gardens but this is
by far the most impressive. It is shrubby in habit, evergreen with
large leaves, powdery grey edged with maroon. During summer metre
tall stems are produced which are capped with many flowered heads
of large waxy coral orange pendant bells each one flared at the
tips. One of the stars of our dry climate garden.
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The best delphinium for Australian conditions. Soundly perennial,
self supporting and branching, this plant is in flower with us for
20 weeks every year. It starts to flower during November. We cut
it to the ground when the first flush of flowers is over in early
January and within a few weeks we are rewarded by more columns of
rich deep sky-blue flowers. It needs good garden conditions in full
sun. 120cm x 75cm. Field grown plants.
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Another of Whetman’s fine introductions with good
healthy silver foliage topped by clove scented double flowers,
white with a carmine eye. These neat double Dianthus are known
as English pinks and make excellent posies. We grow them all as
edging in the vegie garden. Sun loving and drought tolerant. 25cm
x 30cm.
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This is a New Zealand bred dianthus from Dr Keith Hammett who is
doing such a splendid job breeding new garden plants. Dianthus ‘Double
North’ makes a very neat mound of blue grey leaves and short
branching stems carrying white, fully double, clove scented flowers.
We imported this 4 or 5 years ago and have a patch along a path
in the vegetable garden. It makes a great edging plant. 20cm x 25cm.
Sun loving and drought tolerant.
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The grey foliaged little Dianthus are tough and drought
tolerant as well as beautiful. We grow them in rarely watered beds
lining a path in the vegetable garden but they would be equally
at home in the dry garden. Dianthus ‘Red Eye’ makes
low tight mounds of silver grey needle like foliage. These mound
are smothered by sweet, single pink flowers with a prominent deep
carmine pink eye. 15cm x 25cm. Sun.
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Golden Herold Rusty Foxglove A giant form of the Rusty Foxglove
originally collected on the Island of Krk off the Croatian coast.
Taller than the type and with larger flowers somewhat more yellow.
Happy in sun or light shade and needing less water than other foxgloves.
150cm x 60cm.
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Soundly perennial and robust the Rusty Foxglove grows wild on the
margins of pine forests in Greece and Turkey. We’ve grown
this foxglove in full sun with a minimum of water although it is
never allowed to dry out. It makes evergreen clumps of glossy green
leaves. During summer 150cm tall stiff branching spikes carry hundreds
of rusty yellowy brown netted flowers each with a silky hairy lip.
Sun or light shade. 150cm x 60cm.
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A vigorous hybrid between the common foxglove Digitalis purpurea
and the yellow flowered perennial foxglove D. grandiflora. It makes
bold evergreen basal rosettes of large deeply veined hairy leaves
and 80cm tall flower stems which carry big baggy blooms of an indescribable
old mauve, crushed strawberry and copper. A sheltered sunny spot
or light shade will suit it. 80cm x 65cm.
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One of the best of the new foxgloves with stout strong spikes of
creamy white flowers, each with a dramatic maroon-burgundy throat.
Happiest in shade with some water but grows in full sun here if
well watered. 120cm x 70cm.
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Fox Tail Lilies are plants of the dry central Asian steppes and
this gives us some clues on how to grow them. They aren’t
hard to grow as long as they are given full sun until the foliage
dies down in mid summer. Eremurus ‘Cleopatra’ has been
happily growing in our dry climate garden for a few years and produces
bronze gold flowers during December. 100cm x 60cm.
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This is a first release of this beautiful Fox Tail Lily. These plants
need all the sun they can get when they are in foliage from mid
winter until late spring/early summer. If the spring is exceptionally
dry they will need a little extra watering otherwise not. E. ‘Iced
Pink’ makes 150cm tall stems covered on the top half by soft
rose pink flowers. 150cm x 60cm.
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A very beautiful Fox Tail Lily which we are pleased to release for
the first time in Australia. Eremurus ‘Lemon’ makes
150cm tall spikes the top half of which is dressed with hundreds
of lemon flowers. To labour the point we grow our Fox Tail Lilies
in spots in the dry garden where they get sun for the whole of their
growing period from mid winter until early summer. They only need
extra water during very dry springs. 150cm x 60cm.
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Sad about the name but the nurseryman who bred this plant was targeting
cut flower growers as his market. This fox tail lily is one of the
most dramatic plants we grow. We have a patch in the dry garden
which produced twenty towering flower spikes last season. Growing
more than 2 metres tall each spike carries hundreds of soft lemon
flowers. It grows in the most parched sunny position imaginable.
200cm x 60cm.
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Eremurus ‘Romance’ has flowered very well for us growing
between patches of Sedum ‘Matrona’ and Salvia ‘Purpurascens’.
Where the Emerurus has plenty of light from winter until the new
year it blooms prolifically. Fox tail lilies do need full sun to
grow and flower well. They are frost hardy and drought tolerant.
Eremurus ‘Romance’ has 150cm tall stems of soft pink
flowers. 150cm x 60cm.
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This seaside daisy has much larger and deeper pink flowers than
the typical plant. It also has the advantage of rarely if ever producing
viable seed. We have it planted at the side of a path in the dry
climate garden where during summer it takes over from earlier flowering
bulbs. We cut it back to a clump of about 15cm in winter to make
room for the bulbs. Tough, sun loving and drought tolerant it is
just as happy inland as on the coast. 20cm x 30cm.
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A drought tolerant sun hardy variety which we imported from New
Zealand two or thee years ago. A fabulous hybrid with frosted grey
green much dissected leaves forming a mound some 12cm by 20cm. Above
this, held on thin stems, a myriad of butterfly like flowers, pink
with deep carmine blotches on the upper petals. It’s done
well in our stock beds this torrid summer and horrid early autumn.
It will be happy in any well drained sunny spot with just a tad
of extra water.
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I first saw this sea holly flowering splendidly in the purple borders
at Sissinghurst Castle more years ago than I care to remember. It
produces masses of flowers with metallic blue central cones and
a spiky ruff. As it’s a sterile hybrid the individual flowers
last a particularly long time. The European varieties of sea holly
have proved themselves to be very tough. Needs sun. 40cm x 50cm.
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A new plant from Sally Johannsohn and Barbara Jennings, Euphorbia
‘Tassie Tiger’ is the most striking of the variegated
spurges. We’ve grown it in a sunny spot that gets watered
a little and it has coped with the summer without burning. Both
the foliage and the flowers are variegated, the leaves soft glaucous
green with a wide cream edge. It makes a plant 90cm tall by as much
across. Cut spent flower stems to the ground taking care not to
get the caustic milky sap on your skin or in your eyes.
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A widespread species found in North Africa and much of Southern
Europe. This form was originally collected in southern France. It
over winters as a low dense shrubby plant 15cm tall by 45cm wide,
leaves intensely blue and stems pinkish red. During spring these
stems elongate and large lime yellow flower heads are produced.
These heads last for many months. We grow it in the dry garden with
orange ixias and native blue devils. Sun. 40cm x 45cm.
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We’ve had this for 20 years or more and not done much with
it thinking, wrongly, that it needed lots of watering. Our plants
have survived a parched and neglected site for years now. In most
respects it’s like a taller more vigorous E. polychroma
making 90 cm tall leafy green stems topped by good sized heads
of yellowy green flowers during spring. E. palustris is herbaceous
but is below ground for a very short time. Sun or light shade.
90cm x 60cm
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There was an old Forsythia ‘Lynwood Gold’ growing in
the garden when Criss and I first bought the place 16 years ago.
Totally neglected, never watered, and overgrown with weeds, this
shrub gave a dazzling display of bright yellow flowers smothering
long arching willowy, leafless branches during late winter and early
spring. The dark green leaves come along after the flowers have
finished. Sun. 200cm x 150cm. An essential harbinger of spring.
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One of our best plants for shade, even dry shade when established.
Francoa ramosa is the longest flowered of all the bridal wreaths.
Long wands densely packed with showy white flowers are produced
during summer and autumn over low mounds of evergreen foliage. We
grow it under an old maple. It absolutely needs shade in our climate.
70cm x 50cm.
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This is one of the wonders of the plant world. Handsome grey succulent
leaves a metre or more long form a large rosette on top of a metre
tall trunk and when it is inclined after several years it sends
up a flower stem, 4 to 5 metres tall, which holds weeping branches
carrying hundreds of greeny white bell flowers. The plant pictured
hasn’t been watered for five years and grows in a very exposed
paddock.
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Growing like a giant, soft, green leaved Yucca this is a spectacular
foliage plant eventually making metre tall and wide evergreen rosettes
from which, when it’s ready, a 7 metres tall branching flower
stem carries hundreds of greenish white yucca like flowers. Unlikely
to be frost hardy and so only suited to coastal gardens or as a
pot plant in a protected spot.
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I wouldn’t be without this summer flowering bulb. It has had
an important place in the double flower borders here at Lambley
from the start. The 120 cm tall, stiffly upright stems carry dangling
pure white bells during summer. As it is a summer growing bulb we
plant it where it gets watered during dry periods. Sun. 120cm x
40cm.
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Nearly everyone who has seen this plant in flower here wants one.
Galtonia viridiflora is a plant of great if subtle charm. It flowers
much later and for much longer than the better known G. candicans.
From late summer until late autumn the loveliest green bells hang
elegantly, 30 or more to each 65cm tall stem. The fresh green foliage
is wide, handsome, long lasting and still respectable in late May.
A plant for sun or light shade. 65cm x 40cm.
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I used to grow hundreds of these for the wholesale trade 20 odd
years ago but stupidly didn’t bring any stock to Ascot when
we moved here. I got Genista lydia again five years ago and planted
it in the dry climate garden where it is completely at home. It
makes a mounding shrub of arching thin wiry stems which are covered
in bright yellow flowers in late spring and early summer. Tough
drought tolerant and sun loving. 70cm x 100cm.
$9.00
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A beautiful carpeting form of the silky leaved broom raised by
the University of British Columbia Botanic Garden. Tough and drought
tolerant when once established it is completely covered by brilliant
yellow flowers in late spring or early summer. Happy in any sunny,
well drained spot. 6cm x 90cm.
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This is one of the very tough drought tolerant South African geraniums.
We grow it in our dry garden where it makes wide low evergreen mats
of finely dissected dark green leaves. The whole plant is studded
by intense purple flowers for most of spring, summer and autumn.
It gently self sows in surprising places. One plant is growing quite
happily at the base of an olive tree another grew around a low growing
Yucca. 15cm x 80cm.
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The mourning widow group of cranesbill are good plants for growing
in shade even quite dense. We grow it under an old maple where it
happily flowers for us every spring. It makes a mound of rich green
leaves and its thin flower stems carry several round mauve flowers.
A decent patch of it would make a quietly beautiful groundcover
alongside foxgloves and columbines. 40cm x 40cm.
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I’ve got a soft spot for any plant called Cedric Morris, that
gentle English artist and gardener. G. sanguineum takes our hot
summers better than most of the northern hemisphere geraniums. The
round iridescent magenta flowers of this clone are larger than the
type. I grow it in the dry garden where it is happy weaving through
shrubby lupins and a Baptisia though a little more summer watering
would suit it better. A soak once a fortnight would be enough. 30cm
x 50cm.
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Neat low growing mounds of dark green dissected leaves are studded
from spring until winter, with large, round magenta-purple sky
facing flowers. This cranesbill has grown happily in our dry garden
for eight or nine years. 15cm x 25cm.
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Of all the northern hemisphere cranesbills Geranium Sanguineum
is the most tolerant of heat and dust. This form, which originally
came to Lambley from the late Jack Drake’s Nursery in the
Scottish highlands, has particularly large clear soft pink, crimson
veined flowers. It grows well in our dry garden where it makes a
20cm or so tall mat of incised dark green leaves studded with moon
shaped upward facing flowers from spring until near winter. 20cm
x 25cm.
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I’m not sure if this name fits the plant but it was labelled
this when I first got it and I can’t come up with anything
better. It is an important late autumn note in the dry garden at
Lambley where a small patch of bulbs helps carry the garden into
winter. Each bulb sends up a leafy spike which carries a dozen or
so large crimson flowers in a long succession. Easy in any sunny
well drained spot and soon making good sized drifts. 60cm x 20cm.
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This wild gladiolus is as quiet and subtle in its beauty as the
florist gladiolus is loud and flamboyant. Gladiolus papilio has
sword shaped leaves and, during mid to late summer, hooded flowers
of cream, green and dusty purple. We’ve grown it in the dry
garden in full sun but as the flowers open at the most torrid time
of the year they sometimes scorch so its best to plant them where
they get some light shade in summer. 50cm x 20cm.
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The Mediterranean Halimium have performed wonderfully well in the
dry garden and are amongst the most effective grey leaved shrubs
that I grow. On top of that they are covered in flowers for nearly
two months in the spring. Halimium lasianthum ‘Concolor’
has large yellow flowers without the blotches that distinguishes
the typical species. All the Halimiums here are lightly clipped
after flowering. Sun loving tough and drought tolerant. 90cm x 100cm.
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00 |
I’ve grown this plant on and off for 30 years. I think I originally
bought it from Woodbank Nursery now sadly closed down. A neat but
trailing evergreen plant, with intensely silver leaves, it makes
a mat about 50cm across. During autumn branching sprays of soft
butter yellow everlasting daisies are produced. This is a South
African worthy of a spot in any sunny well drained part of the garden.
15cm x 50cm.
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Frost hardy to –20C, dwarf, free and long flowering, heat
tolerant. Happy both inland and on the coast. The warm ivory flowers
each with a magenta eye are more than 20cm across. Each stem produces
up to 20 flowers and this plant produces many stems. Give it full
sun and conditions in which a Dahlia would grow and it will be happy.
Cut back to the ground in winter. 120cm x 100cm.
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This frost hardy Hibiscus is one of the best new plants we’ve
grown. H. paramutabilis makes a 120cm tall by 100cm wide shrub with
large rich dark rose-pink flowers freely produced from mid-summer
until winter. I rate this one of the best of all flowering shrubs.
Cut back to about 50cm during late winter or early spring. It’s
not difficult to grow and is fairly drought tolerant too. Happy
in any well dug over soil in the sun. Pot grown. 120cm x 100cm.
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A fine tough handsome evergreen foliage plant for difficult and
not so difficult areas under trees tolerating drought and shade
very well when once established. The arching deep green broadly
sword shaped leaves boldly striped cream. The flowers which are
rarely produced are of no account. Shade. 60cm x 60cm.
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An old variety of bearded iris, which was found growing in Nepal
during the nineteenth century, with rich dark purple flowers from
August until November. The foliage is attractive throughout most
of the year except early winter when we give the plantsa good tidy
up. This is one of the toughest and most drought tolerant of all
iris, happy in full sun or light shade We have it growing here at
Lambley with Euphorbia wulfenii. A bit obvious but never the less
effective. 60cm x 50cm.
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One of the toughest of evergreen plants giving so much reward for
so little effort thriving in almost any position except dense shade.
They have long thin arching dark green leaves in which the loveliest
of fragrant soft lavender-pink flowers nestle from May until September.
The flowers last well in water if they are gathered in bud just
before they unfurl. 50cm x 50cm. Limit of one per customer.
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During the 1980’s we made a lot of controlled crosses between
various Kniphofia forms to get neat, free flowering, small growing
plants. K. ‘Apricot Nectar’ was one of the best seedlings
with clear apricot flowers opening from green buds. The very dwarf
pokers need a tad more water and a little better soil than taller
varieties but having said that they are still tough plants. Sun.
70cm x 50cm.
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This turned up here as a sport in a bed of the Beth Chatto raised
K. ‘Little Maid’ about 15 years ago. It has all the
virtues, neat, dwarf and free flowering. Blooming in late spring
and early summer the 60cm tall flower stem is covered for half its
length with lemon flowers which age to soft lemon and on to ivory.
Divide and replant every 2 or 3 years. We cut them down to 10cm
in winter. 60cm x 30cm.
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Kniphofia are tough evergreen sun loving plants which are fairly
tolerant of dryness and have few wants except occasionally pulling
off old foliage or once a year cutting the clump back to 15cm, (during
winter with this variety). K. ‘Sunningdale Yellow’ has
warm deep butter yellow torches on 120cm tall stems from mid spring
until late summer.
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This is the true, old fashioned exquisite Christmas Lily. Lillium
longiflorum seems to have usurped the name in latter years. Beautiful
fragrant flared trumpets of crystalline white, claret backed flowers.
Generally starts with us in the second week of December and finishes
early in the new year. It is pretty drought tolerant too as we’ve
had it growing in a garden bed near the house which is barely watered.
Sun or light shade. 120cm x 30cm.
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I was given this marvellous plant by Pat Bowley who has a beautiful
garden near Bowral in NSW. It forms arching stems well covered by
beautiful fingered dark green silky leaves. Each stem branches several
times and the top of each branch holds a spike of blue and white
lupins. Tough and drought tolerant it has made a great addition
to our dry garden. 100cm x 100cm.
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We grow several evergreen shrubby lupins and all of them are very
tolerant of drought unlike the English bred Russell lupins which
need plenty of extra summer irrigation. Lupinus variicolor is a
native of California and in our form has pale blue and white, typical
lupin flowers held well above deep green much divided foliage. Needs
full sun and enjoys dry conditions. 60cm x 80cm.
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This looked superb in the garden last year. It takes a few years
to bulk up and flower freely. A fine clump forming variegated grass
with startling arching copper flowers. The foliage mounds grow to
100cm by much the same across becoming grander as the years pass.
The flower stems add another 50cm in height to this. The stiff stems
and arching leaves are very effective in floral art work. Sun. 150cm
x 100cm.
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Almost identical in its grey leaves and ethereal mauve flowers to
Nepeta ‘Six Hills Giant’ it’s the habit of this
plant that makes it so different and so desirable. It is very neat,
upright and tidy in growth not at all lax. We’ve grown it
in the Lambley stock beds for a while and now have a good sized
patch in the dry climate garden. 50cm x 70cm.
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This is the catmint featured in the sexy English coffee table gardening
books. We grow it in front of a stone wall in a bed that is never
watered. Its lovely grey leaves set off lax sprays of ethereal hazy
lavender blue flowers. We cut it to the ground after Christmas and
again in late autumn or winter. This cutting back keeps it looking
fresh and flowering for 6 to 7 months. 50cm x 85cm.
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This is one of the best cut flowers for late summer picking making
120cm tall rigid stems topped by a crown of long lasting waxy ivory
white, dark centred flowers. Each head lasts a good two months in
the garden and two to three weeks in the vase. I grow a row in the
vegetable garden for picking for the house and also a fairly large
patch in a border near my office. Needs some summer irrigation to
be at their best and also a site in full sun. 130cm x 30cm.
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This is totally different in both
leaf colour and outline to the other Panicums that we’ve listed
in previous catalogues. Panicum ‘Heavy Metal’ makes
clumps of stiffly upright stems clothed in blue leaves. The autumn
flowers, held stiffly above the stems, are bluish at first and then
turn to oat gold. We grew this in the dry garden last year but sadly
it got swamped by other plants but other Panicums have done well
in the dry garden. Sun. 80cm x 60cm.
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A new addition to our collection of Oriental poppies. I grow these
sumptuous flowers for my wife Criss Canning to paint. We have beds
of them in the vegetable garden where the rich soil and regular
watering regime suits them. ‘Frilled champagne - tinted petals
are flushed and edged with salmon pink, forming a large, exquisitely
delicate flower. Purple black blotches and quivering stamens fill
the heart.’ Beth Chatto’s description fills my heart.
80cm x 70cm.
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This poppy was raised by the British artist and gardener Sir Cedric
Morris. It has huge sumptuous flowers with frilled greyish pink
petals with an almost black blotch at the base of each. We grow
all of the oriental poppies in the vegetable garden where the soil
is rich and deep and we can give some summer irrigation. I collect
these poppies for my wife Criss Canning to paint. 70cm x 60cm. Sun
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Not only is this my favourite name for a plant but also my favourite
oriental poppy. The huge and sumptuous flowers, white with a dark
blotch, flush pink with age. We grow all the oriental poppies in
the vegetable garden where they are well fed and watered. They are
definitely not drought tolerant. After the first flush of flowers
is over I find it wise to cut the plants to near ground level, feed
and water them well to get a repeat flowering in the autumn. 60cm
x 60cm.
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A lot of orange oriental poppies are almost too brazen. Papaver
‘Dubloon’ with its softer golden orange flowers is more
subtle than most. We’ve grown this relative newcomer for a
couple of years now and although the flowers are a little smaller
than others of its kind it makes up for this by being generous in
the number of flowers produced. Needs good soil in full sun and
some summer watering. 60cm x 50cm.
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An exquisite Oriental Poppy with huge sumptuous flowers, blush pink
with deeper pink edges. Like all of its kind this plant needs good
soil which isn’t allowed to dry out to get the best results
or any results. We grow a fairly good collection in the vegetable
and picking garden which Criss uses in her paintings. 70cm x 50cm.
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00 |
A little different from the run of the mill oriental poppies Papaver
‘Lilac Girl’ produces soft greyish lilac pink flowers
some 20cm across. Like all of its kind it needs good soil and a
sunny uncrowded position to flower well. All our oriental poppies
are grown from cuttings from proven varieties. 60cm x 70cm.
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One of the most exciting of the new breed of oriental poppies which
has done very well here at Lambley over the last few years. From
typically rich green ferny leaved clumps many stiff 70cm tall stems
carry huge sumptuous water melon pink flowers with each petal having
a broad black paint brush stroke near its base. Reasonable soil
in a sunny spot is best, and like all of its kind needs some extra
watering during hot periods. 70cm x 60cm.
$9.00
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My wife, Criss Canning, loves painting these sumptuous flowers and
over the years I’ve built up quite a collection which I grow
in the vegetable garden. Papaver ‘Turkenlouis’, a new
addition to our collection, has flowers with red serrated petals
with black blotches at the base. Like all of its kind it wants good
soil with some regular summer irrigation. 60cm x 60cm.
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Pelargonium reniforme is one of an interesting and beautiful group
of frost hardy South African Pelargoniums. It’s been growing
in our dry garden for three years and has performed so well we have
planted another large patch by the side of a gravel path. Evergreen
with round hairy greyish green scalloped leaves about the size of
a fifty cent coin. It flowers from spring until winter with dozens
of magenta moths hovering well above the foliage. Foliage mounds.
25cm x 30cm.
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One of my favourite Penstemon with the loveliest blue-mauve white
throated flowers nicely poised on long pedicels. Flowering as it
does from late spring until winter it has been a mainstay of our
double borders for many years. Penstemon are tough plants with very
little artificial water requirements. It’s a mistake to cut
them back too hard in winter, about half way is safe. We remove
old spent stems when the new spring growth gets to 30cm or so. 90cm
x 90cm.
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These hybrid Penstemon are amongst the best long flowered evergreen
perennials. Rarely out of bloom and needing nothing more than dead
heading during the season and tidying up during winter. (Don’t
cut them too far back as they struggle to recover. 40cm is hard
enough.) P. ‘Blackbird’ has extra long dark wine purple
flower tubes on stiff leafy stems. Drought tolerant and sun loving.
90cm x 90cm.
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We got this plant from Dennis Norgate who by the way is still going
strong, still growing plants, mostly for the wholesale trade. Penstemon
‘Crimson Gem’ is a dwarf bedding variety, a sport or
seedling of P. ‘Newberry Gem’, large crimson red flowers
on relatively short stiff stems. It’s as easy to grow and
as resistant to drought as all the rest of its kind and is happy
in any sunny well drained spot 50cm x 50cm. Rarely offered now.
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There’s a good patch of this variety in the cottage garden
here where it grows with blue Salvia azurea and white Japanese anemones.
Dark purple tubular flowers with a contrasting white throat makes
this one of the most telling of the purple Penstemon. Happy in any
sunny position in the garden and grows well without much extra watering.
80cm x 80cm.
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This Penstemon which was found growing in Sissinghurst Castle gardens
is a clear clean pink. The form usually seen in Australia is a rather
muddy pink. Smaller in all its parts than most garden Penstemons
it is a good long flowering front of the border plant. Like most
of its tribe this plant is pretty tough. 40cm x 40cm.
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Bred in the 1920s and still one of the most telling of its kind
Penstemon ‘Garnet’ has been a stalwart of our double
flower borders for at least ten years. 60cm tall stems clothed with
narrow glossy dark green leaves carry dozens of rich magenta pink
flowers from spring until winter. We tidy the plants up in winter
by trimming to about 40cm. During late spring when new shoots grow
from the base we cut all of the spent previous seasons wood to the
ground. 60cm x 60cm. Sun.
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These old fashioned Penstemon hybrids are easily grown sun loving
evergreen perennials with few wants except dead heading and occasionally
removing old spent stems. P. ‘Gladiator’ is one of the
largest flowered of the race with huge shameless baggy blooms, wine
purple with a white throat. Happy in any sunny position and requires
very little extra water. 70cm x 70cm.
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This Penstemon has soft pink flower tubes washed by the faintest
hint of salmon whilst a cream throat is striped with carmine perhaps
there to guide the insect pollinators, a mini landing strip. I’ve
grown a decent group in the double borders for many years. In winter
I tidy the plants up by cutting back to about 40cm. Anything more
drastic than that and the plant may shuffle off its mortal coil.
70cm x 60cm.
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Deep mauve and pink flower tubes, white throated with red veins
in the throat. This has grown without water for three years here
and still flowered well last summer. 80 cm x 70cm.
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A low growing plant, wider than it is tall, with lovely smallish
mauve-purple white throated flowers. Tough as tough it has grown
well without any water here for the last three years. 40cm x 60cm.
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We’ve grown this since the Mount Dandenong days. Like all
of these hybrid Penstemon this variety is very tough and drought
tolerant. We have an old bed of stock plants which wasn’t
watered at all last summer but Penstemon ‘Pink Cloud’
showed no sign of distress and still has flowers at the end of May.
This clone is one of the tallest of its kind growing up to 120cm.
The top third of this carries charming pink, white throated tubular
flowers. 120cm x 90cm.
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An old variety with very big baggy ruby red, white throated flowers.
There’s nothing subtle or retiring about this plant. Like
all of the English bred penstemons this one has a long flowering
period from late spring until the winter. I tidy up the growth during
winter but I don’t cut it back hard. It’s best to cut
the spent previous years stems to the ground only after the new
growth has made 30cm. P ‘Rubicunda’ is happy in any
sunny spot and needs very little extra watering. 60cm x60cm
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This is one of the most famous of all the Penstemon. Vita Sackville-West
had it growing at Sissinghurst for many years. It has soft green,
amethyst and blue, narrowly tubular flowers. 70cm x 60cm.
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Very large soft apple blossom pink flowers the size of P. ‘Rubicunda’
and P. ‘Gladiator’. It was brought into cultivation
by Dennis Norgates mother in the middle of last century. 60cm x
50cm. These old varieties are in danger of being lost to cultivation.
Many are already unavailable. Tough, drought tolerant sun lover.
60cm x 60cm.
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I was given this plant by a good friend, the late Bill Seale who
gardened for Mr and Mrs Kerry Packer at Ellerstone near Scone for
many years. Penstemon ‘Willy’s Purple’ is one
of the tallest of the race with very upright leafy stems and spires
of dark wine purple, waxy flowers. Tough sun lover which gets by
with very little water. In the past we’ve grown it with the
summer flowering lime green flowered Euphorbia schillingii. 120cm
x 70cm
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Penstemon ‘Yvonne’ has large showy deep rose pink white
throated flowers held horizontally on stiff 60cm tall flower stems.
We cut spent flower heads to the ground during summer and tidy the
plants up during winter by trimming to about 45cm. Penstemon are
fairly drought tolerant needing only occasional watering, about
once a fortnight during summer. Sun. 60cm x 60cm.
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This newly imported variety of Russian Sage was a gift from New
Zealand nurseryman, Ian Duncalf. Smaller growing than other varieties
of Russian Sage it is the intricately cut, lace like leaves that
distinguishes this plant. Typical long spires of mauve flowers are
held above leafy stems in this drought tolerant, sun loving plant.
80cm x 80cm.
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This has been in the same spot in our garden for 15 years and still
looks good. Metre tall white stems, clothed from top to bottom in
grey leaves,
carry spikes of rich violet mauve blue flowers during summer and
autumn. This tough, drought tolerant sun lover looks better and
does better if planted in groups. We also recommend planting it
2 to 3 cm below its pot level as this encourages new growth from
below the soil. 100cm x 45cm.
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The large felty heart shaped evergreen leaves, green above grey
beneath, make a dense weed proof mound. The strong stiff 100cm stems
are encircled with worls of soft yellow hooded flowers. Handsome
the year round, this plant is happy in sun or light shade. 100cm
x 75cm.
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The only Pulmonaria which we grow now, from the dozen or so we have
trialled, is P. ‘Ankum’. In one of our borders it’s
happy growing in the shade of summer flowering perennials such as
Salvia azurea. When the perennials are cut back in winter this pulmonaria
comes into its own displaying silver and green spear shaped foliage
and heads of blue flowers from reddish buds. Tough in any shady
spot that gets a modicum of water. 30cm x 40cm.
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A good form of this the loveliest of lovely daisies from the hot
North African hillsides of Morocco and Algeria. Clear pink flowers
with dark centres of burnt umber from early spring until late autumn
on low twiggy stems clothed in lovely blue green cut foliage. A
star in our dry garden where it thrives on very little water. A
quick dead heading every couple of months or so keeps it flowering.
Sun. 30cm x 40cm.
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This is one of the most rewarding plants for dry climate gardens,
getting by on very little water, flowering from early spring until
winter when once established. It has been around gardens for ages
but wrongly named P gayana or Chrysanthemum mawii. It’s most
likely a hybrid between P. gayana and P. hosmariense. All it needs
to thrive is a sunny well drained spot and a little water to give
it a start. 30cm x 30cm.
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Ruta ‘Jackman’s Blue’ is the most compact and
most blue in foliage of all the rues. We grow it in a couple of
spots in the dry garden. Grown mostly for its intensely blue leaves
we enjoy the sharp yellow flowers during summer but it does no harm
to trim these off if you like. We’ve grown Ruta ‘Jackman’s
Blue’ for many years and never tire of it. Tough, sun loving
and drought tolerant. 70cm x 70cm.
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A fabulous frost hardy Salvia from American garden designer, Frances
Parker. A hybrid between the Mexican Sage (S leucantha) and the
Pineapple Sage (S elegans) it makes a large, handsome foliaged,
shrubby plant with a grand display of rich deep violet-blue flowers
through autumn into winter. Its flower colour is similar to S. ‘Indigo
Spires’ but the plant is a much neater growing. 120cm x 150cm.
Drought tolerant.
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Very few flowers are as dreamy as this. We have a sea of its ethereal
powder sky blue flowers in the garden in front of the old cottage
and grow white and crimson lilies through it as well as magenta
purple dahlias and greenish white flowered Ornithogalum saundersiae.
S. azurea produces 120cm long lax stems which are tipped with
blue flowers from early summer until late autumn. Happiest in
sun but will cope with a little light shade. It does needs an
occasional watering. 80cm x 100cm.
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A beautiful little grey foliaged shrub which we got from Judy Forrester’s
Nursery in Apollo Bay a few years ago. Happy in the spartan conditions
of our dry climate garden where it grows near Euphorbia x martinii
on the east side of an olive tree. Salvia ‘Greek Skies’
has spear shaped leaves, grey green edged with silver, and showy
soft mauve flowers. Tough drought tolerant and sun loving. 80cm
x 70cm.
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A plant from the P.G.A. breeding program with large rose magenta
flowers. The flowers are larger than most Salvia greggii clones
and are very, very freely produced above a round compact shrub,
which we cut back about half way each winter. A superb selection.
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