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Achillea

Achillea ‘Cherry Ripe’ - Cherry Ripe Yarrow

Flat heads of rose-magenta flowers slowly age to old damask pink in this fine cultivar. Achilleas need to be planted in a sunny position and are tolerant of drought. They grow very happily in our dry garden. We lift, divide and replant this variety every two years or so., more...
$8.00 or 3 for $21.00

Achillea ‘Hella Glashof’ - 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, more...
$8.00 or 3 for $21.00

Achillea ‘Red Velvet’

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, more...

Achillea ‘Terracotta’

Achillea 'Terracotta' makes self-supporting, 90cm tall stems with flat heads of peach pink flowers which quickly age to rusty mustard lemon. A hardy plant for a sunny spot.
$8.00 each or 3 for $21.00

Aethionema

Aethionema armeniaca ‘Warley Rose’ - Warley Rose Stonecress

A small growing tough little evergreen shrublet with waxy blue green leaves which covers itself with rich rose pink flowers for many months during spring and early summer. A drought and heat tolerant plant from Turkey which makes a good companion for the smaller spring, more...
$8.00 each or 3 for $21.00

Agapanthus

Agapanthus ‘Ellamae’

Lambley imported this variety from the USA about fifteen years ago and it has taken this long to build up enough stock to sell. Large heads of deep violet blue flowers are produced on 140cm tall stems. The foliage mounds are evergreen in coastal gardens and deciduous or, more...
$15.00 each or 3 for $39.00

Agapanthus ‘Getty White’

An evergreen agapanthus with large heads of flowers on stiff 60cm tall stems. It been growing happily in our trial garden for many years where its large heads of white flowers on stiff 70cm tall stems are produced during summer. The foliage mounds grow to 50cm tall by 100cm, more...
$8.00 each or 3 for $21.00

Agapanthus campanulatus ‘Bressingham Blue’

This is one of the finest dwarf growing Agapanthus. Later to come into flower than most (February here) A. ‘Bressingham Blue’ has dark blue waxy flowers on 80cm tall stems. As it is deciduous we plant winter flowering crocus and winter flowering hoop petticoat daffodils, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Agapanthus campanulatus ‘Isis’

Raised by the late Alan Bloom. Rich, dark blue, waxy flowers in good numbers on thin upright stems during January and February. It has grown and flowered well with very little water. Herbaceous. Sun. 70cm x 40cm.
$8.00 each or 3 for $21.00

Agapanthus inapertus hollandii ‘Lydenberg’

Agapanthus ‘Lydenberg’ came to Australia from the Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens 20 or 30 years ago. It always stirs the blood of visitors when it’s in flower in the dry garden. Tall strong stems carry pendulous light blue flowers in great abundance during mid to late summer., more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Agapanthus praecox ‘Pallidus’

This is an old evergreen Dutch variety which was lost to cultivation in Holland until we sent a few plants to their national Agapanthus collection about 10 years ago. We have lined our driveway with this Agapanthus as it has a long flowering period, from November until, more...
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Agastache

Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’ - Anise Hyssop

This fine new Dutch raised plant is a hybrid between the Korean Agastache rugosa and the American Agastache foeniculum. Strong stiff 120cm stems, clothed with softly bristly green leaves, are topped by handsome mauve-blue bottlebrush flower heads from about Christmas time on, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Agastache ‘Sweet Lili’ - Sweet Lili Humming Bird Mint

We found this beautiful plant growing in a bed of A. rupestris. It is obviously a hybrid, perhaps between A rupestris and A. cana or A. mexicana. It has all the virtues of the race, tough drought tolerant, long flowering and beautiful, so beautiful I’ve named it for my, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Agastache aurantiaca ‘Copper Rose’ - Copper Rose Hummingbird Mint

This is a new, larger flowered and more vigorous selection of A. aurantiaca which we’ve been trialling for a couple of years in our stock garden. It makes a soundly perennial plant some 120cm tall and 100cm wide with a long succession of large tubular, copper-apricot flowers, more...
$10.00 each or 3 for $27.00

Agastache aurantiacus - Apricot Humming Bird Mint

These mint relatives from the southern parts of North America have been a revelation to us and our resident New Holland Honeyeaters during these last few droughty years. Some stock plants haven’t been watered for three years or more and have still produced an endless, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Allium

Allium carinatum spp. pulchellum

The graceful loose heads of purple flowers remind me of the Roman Candle firecrackers we had on bonfire night. We grow this ornamental onion through Convolvulus and low growing geraniums in the dry garden where it increases well and blooms for much of the summer and the early, more...
$8.00 each, or 3 pots for $21.00

Alstroemeria

Alstroemeria ‘Crimson’ - Crimson Peruvian Lily

The Peruvian Lilies are amongst the best of all cut flowers lasting well up to two weeks in a vase. Much modern breeding has concentrated on producing dwarf plants for pot culature. This variety is a traditional cut flower type and we pick it for many months from late spring, more...
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Anemone

Anemone canadense - Canadian Windflower

This little rambler is native to much of North America. I’ve grown it under and around shrubs such as Hydrangea paniculata for 15 years or more and each spring and summer enjoy a carpet of maple like green leaves and 30cm tall stems each carrying a white windflower. It, more...
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Artemisia

Artemisia absinthum ‘Lambrook Silver’ - Lambrook Silver Wormwood

One of the late Marjorie Fish’s plants from her garden at Lambrook Manor. I find it to be the longest lived of all the wormwoods and we have had one plant in the double borders for nigh on 10 years and with a little judicial pruning it should be beautiful for 10 more., more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Artemisia pedemontana - Silky Wormwood

The silky wormwood forms a low mound of mink-fur-soft much dissected silver leaves. We grow a patch of it at the edge of a path in our dry climate garden. Whilst it looks frail and miffy it is easy to grow as long as it is given full sun and doesn’t sit in sodden soil for, more...
$8.00 or 3 for $21.00

Artemisia schmidtiana ‘Nana’ - Satin Wormwood

This carpeting plant was a great favourite of my father who grew it over paving in his cold garden in the English midlands. Here it has been happy in full sun with very little supplementary water even though it is a plant of Japan and East Asia. It makes vigorous prostrate, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Arthropodium

Arthropodium cirrhatum ‘Te Puna’ - Dwarf New Zealand Rock Lily

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, more...
$8.00 or 3 for $21.00

Asphodeline

Asphodeline lutea - King’s Spear

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, more...
$8.00 or 3 for $21.00

Aster

Aster amellus ‘Violet Queen’

Aster amellus 'Violet Queen' makes masses of violet flowers, each with a golden centre, which are produced during late summer and autumn. A compact plant reaching 50cm.
$10.00 each or 3 for $27.00

Aster frikartii ‘Jung Frau’

One of the best Easter daisies with large cool lavender-blue flowers from February until May. Once planted it is best left alone as it will sulk, or worse, if moved at the wrong time. Herbaceous. Sun. 50cm x 60cm.
$9.00 each or 3 for $24.00

Aster lateriflorus ‘Lady in Black’

Aster ‘Lady in Black’ was raised by Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf. It is a dramatic plant with black leaves clothing stiff upright 80cm tall stiff stems. During late summer and autumn small wiry horizontal branches are produced from the upper leaf axels to display, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Beschorneria

Beschorneria calcicola

This rare, small species from Mexico has done very well here at Lambley. It makes a many rosetted clump of green, softly succulent, narrow leaves and from nearly every rosette a two metre tall upright stem carries dozens of narrowly tubular green and pink bells. A good tough, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Beschorneria septentrionalis - False Red Agave

This plant is from dry woodland in the Mexican mountains. We grow it in our dry climate garden in dry shade under olive trees. Evergreen succulent rosettes some 90cm wide by 70cm tall, like a green leaved spineless agave, are bold and handsome the year round. 2 metre tall, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Bouteloua

Bouteloua gracilis - Blue Grama Grass

A very small growing grass of the North American dry plains from Wisconsin to California. In full flower it is only 35cm tall making it suitable for planting in rock gardens. The red tinted flowers are held horizontally to the upright stem. After a while the flowers age to a, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Bystropogon

Bystropogon canariensis - Canary Island Smoke Bush

I remember my late father being very taken by this when he visited Australia and planted lots of it in my brother’s Monbulk garden. A frost hardy, drought tolerant evergreen shrub which from early summer until late autumn turns itself into cumulus clouds of soft grey, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00