Fountain like clumps of fine arching leaves are topped by a cloud of maroon midge-like flowers during autumn. Late in the season the foliage turns bronze red and finally to straw gold during winter. more... about Panicum virgatum ‘Rubrum’
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 stiff upright stems clothed in blue leaves. more... about Panicum virgatum ‘Heavy Metal’
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. more... about Papaver orientale ‘Turkenlouis’
A lovely grass making 50cm wide clumps of pale blue-green arching leaves. Misty greyish mushroom-pink bottlebrushes are produced from spring until winter. Frost hardy, long lived and drought tolerant. Sun or light shade. 50 x 50cm. more... about Pennisetum orientale
A small growing Penstemon making an evergreen shrub 30cm tall by 40cm wide. It has a profusion of orange tubular flowers for up to two months during late spring and early summer. more... about Penstemon pinifolius
A fabulous import from the USA where it is very highly rated. It is very upright in growth and has long spires of rich violet flowers which combine well with its grey foliage. more... about Perovskia atriplicifolia ‘Little Spires’
A very rare Phlomis grown from seed collected by Olivier Filippi in Southern Turkey and imported by us from his nursery a few years ago. It’s made a neat rounded shrub well clothed by relatively small, oval, grey green leaves with lighter undersides. more... about Phlomis chimerae
This, the true species, has rarely if ever been offered in Australia. A hybrid between P. italica and P. purpurea has been mistakenly sold as this for many years including by us. more... about Phlomis italica
Phlomis lanata is itself quite a compact evergreen shrub with the smallest leaves in the genus. ‘Pygmy’, a very, very small clone, has the same grey-green, deeply veined leaves as the type. more... about Phlomis lanata ‘Pygmy’
Last year Lambley imported this beautiful evergreen shrub from Olivier Filippi’s nursery in the South of France. A hybrid between P. fruticosa and P. longifolia it is one of the showiest plants in the genus. more... about Phlomis ‘Le Sud’
This new import is, to my mind, the most beautiful in foliage of all the Phlomis. It is still such a new plant that our supplier, Olivier Filippi, hasn’t yet listed it in his catalogue. more... about Phlomis ‘Lemon Blush’
A rare and beautiful Phlomis from the region of the Judean mountains in Israel. Handsome evergreen foliage, hairy silver beneath and grey above with whorls of quite deep yellow claw-like flowers which are produced over a long period from spring into summer. more... about Phlomis platystegia
