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Achillea

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Achillea clavenae

Farrer writes in The English Rock Garden that this is “....a beautiful species, forming wide tufts of .... irregularly lobed leaves, which are hoary white with down, while high above them rise the six inch stems carrying clear white flowers of fair size in a loose head.” It, more...
$8.00 or 3 for $21.00

Agapanthus

Agapanthus ‘Guilfoyle’

The most exciting agapanthus we have grown with flowers as dark as any evergreen agapanthus. It makes huge heads of waxy midnight-blue flowers. Each head will flower for 6-8 weeks and secondary flower stems carry the display into autumn. The dark green foliage has an upright, more...
$15.00 or 3 for $39.00

Agapanthus ‘Meroo Mop’

This evergreen Agapanthus was raised by Dr Alistair Hay and given to Lambley about ten years ago. It’s a vigorous clone with mop-like heads of blue flowers on 120cm tall stems. We have finally built up enough stock to offer a few large field grown divisions for sale.
$12.00 or 3 for $33.00

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...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Agastache

Humming Bird Mints

Agastache (roughly translated means many spikes) is a genus of perennials from China, Korea, Japan and North America. Many of the North American species are pollinated by humming birds and our own New Holland Honey Eaters gorge on these all summer long in the dry garden. All, more...

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 mexicana - Giant Mexican Hyssop

We grow the Mexican Hyssop instead of Bergamots as the water needs of Bergamots are much too great to warrant a place in our garden. Agastache mexicana makes 120cm tall stems clothed with citron scented leaves topped with 40cm spikes of deep dusky pink flowers with deeper, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Agastache mexicana ‘Aztec Rose’ - Aztec Rose Mexican Hummingbird Mint

A beautiful new selection of the Mexican Hummingbird Mint which has more vigorous growth, deeper green leaves and more intensely coloured deep pink flowers than the type. It needs a little supplementary watering. I water it about once a fortnight during the summer. It grows, more...
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Arbutus

Arbutus unedo ‘Pink Pearls’ - Pink Flowered Strawberry Tree

This tough frost hardy tree is suited to coastal areas as well as the hotter inland areas. It has handsome evergreen foliage, dark green with red petioles, and rich pink, lily-of-the-valley flowers which are produced in autumn. Red strawberry-like fruit follow in winter. 5, more...
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Arctostaphylos

Arctostaphylos ‘Howard McMinn’ - Manzanita Howard McMinn

This renowned plant is the most often found Manzanita growing in Californian gardens where it is grown as an evergreen specimen shrub or a hedge. It can be kept clipped to a metre tall or allowed to grow to a 2 metres tall shrub. It won the rare Award of Merit from the, more...
$12.00 0r 3 for $33.00

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 genipi

This wormwood is one of the best evergreen silver foliaged groundcovers making a carpet of intensely silver leaves. I grow 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, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Asphodelus

Asphodelus albus - White Asphodel

A tall sturdy perennial with stiff one metre tall stems carrying many white star flowers with a faint brown line on each petal. It can be evergreen but in the dry garden here at Lambley it usually dies down to the ground during summer. Growth begins again in early winter. A, more...
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Asphodelus ramosus - Branched Asphodel

A southern European plant which grows in pine woods, olive groves and heavily grazed land from south west Spain to Greece. Sometimes evergreen but summer dormant here these last few years. A. ramosus makes 120cm tall branching spikes which carry hundreds of flowers, coffee, more...
$8.00 or 3 for $21.00

Beschorneria

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

Beschorneria yuccoides - False Red Agave

One of the wonders of the hardy plant world, drought tolerant and totally handsome Beschorneria yuccoides makes an 100cm tall rosette of pewter-grey yucca like foliage, soft to the touch and not at all spiny. When large enough it sends dramatic 2 metres tall, red flower, more...
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Brunnera

Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’ - Siberian Bugloss

A really good foliage and flowering plant for shade. Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’ has silver, heart shaped basal leaves which are hidden during spring and early summer by clouds of true blue for-get-me-not flowers held well above the foliage on thin wiry stems. This is one of the, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Buddleja

Buddleja alternifolia

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 pleasure it gave. Our plants are grown in a part of the garden which is never, more...
$9.00 each

Buddleja crispa

This drought tolerant shrub is grown more for its handsome foliage than for its flowers, pretty though they are. In our dry climate garden it has made an upright shrub some 180cm x 180cm. The new leaves are like white felt and as they age they turn grey. This Buddleja has, more...
$12.00 each

Calamagrostis

Calamagrostis ‘Karl Foerster’ - Feather Reed Grass

This ornamental grass makes a strong vertical statement and is widely used in landscape plantings in Europe and the USA. A cloud of hazy mauve flowers on 180cm tall stems are produced during early summer and slowly age to creamy beige and then to golden brown as it moves into, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Caryopteris

Caryopteris x clandonensis "Heavenly Blue" - Blue Beard

This late summer/autumn flowering shrub has thrived in a really tough spot in the dry garden for years. As the marvellous rich dark blue flowers are produced on new seasons wood it’s best to cut Caryopteris to near ground level during winter. 90cm x 80cm.
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Ceanothus

Ceanothus ‘Joyce Coulter’

This vigorous low growing shrubmakes a dense evergreen dark greenground cover 60cm or a little more tall and 3 metres across. During late winter and spring it produces 10-15 cm heads of gentian blue flowers, softer and less strident than C. ‘Blue Pacific’.Very tolerant of, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Centaurea

Centaurea rutifolia

One of the best and most interesting silver foliage plants growing in our Dry Climate garden, where it has flourished with very little additional watering these last few years. It makes evergreen rosettes of jaggedly cut silvery-white leaves somewhat like a dandelion in, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Ceratostigma

Ceratostigma griffithii - Burmese Plumbago

As tough as the rest of its clan Burmese Plumbago makes a shrub some 60cm tall by 80cm across. Intense gentian blue flowers crown the twiggy, leafy stems. During autumn and winter the small dark green leaves turn an intense red. Drought tolerant and sun loving.
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Ceratostigma plumbaginoides - Chinese Plumbago

A dwarf ground covering, frost hardy perennial with large (for the genus) gentian blue flowers from spring until autumn. The oval green leaves turn flaming scarlet and crimson in late autumn and winter. Sun or light shade. Very tough and does exceptionally well in our dry, more...
9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Chamaerops

Chamaerops humilis - Mediterranean Fan Palm

Much loved by gardeners in Victorian times who made a feature of this palm planting it in the centre of the lawn. They will fit well into a mixed planting as well of course. A palm from the hot dry areas of southern Europe and North Africa it is both drought tolerant and, more...
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Chimonanthus

Chimonanthus praecox - Winter Sweet

“Chimonanthus, that most heavenly scented of all heaven-scented flowers” Reginald Farrar. Blooming in the depths of winter the flowers, cream coloured and tightly huddled against leafless stems, will fill the whole garden with a delicious spicy fragrance. As it flowers on, more...
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Chitalpa

x Chitalpa tashkentensis ‘Pink Dawn’ - Pink Dawn Chitalpa

A hybrid between Catalpa bignoniodes and Chilepsis linearis this rare, deciduous small tree is ideally suited to our dry inland gardens as well as coastal areas which aren’t humid during summer. For several months, from early summer until autumn, heads of large gloxinia-like, more...
$35 each

Cistus

Cistus salviifolia ‘Prostratus’

This drought tolerant evergreen shrub makes a 120cm wide evergreen mat clothed in small sage like leaves which during late spring is graced by hundreds of white, golden centred, flowers like a small single rose. It flowers with the blue Scilla peruviana in the dry garden and, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Cistus x laxus ‘Snow White’ - Snow White Sun Rose

A very fine Cistus hybrid which according to the world authority on the genus Bob Page “...Snow White, raised by Eric Sammons, is the best – vigorous, hardy, floriferous, rounded habit” It will grow into a dark green leaved shrub some 150cm tall by as much across. Its pure, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Cotinus

Cotinus coggygria ‘Royal Purple’ - Royal Purple Smoke Bush

One of the toughest and most drought tolerant of all deciduous shrubs which once established needs very little or no supplementary watering. I grow it as a pollard, cutting it down to a metre each year. Whilst this means I forgo the large smokey, reddish purple flower heads, more...
$12.00 or 3 for $33.00