Lambley Nursery Perennial Catalogue : C

Calamagrostis

Calamagrostis x acutiflora ‘Overdam’ - Variegated Feather Reed Grass

Calamagrostis ‘Overdam’ makes a lovely tussock of creamy white striped leaves. The stiffly vertical flower spikes, mauve pink aging to gold, are produced in summer. It needs a little summer irrigation and is happy in sun or light shade. Although the foliage clumps are, 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.
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Ceanothus

Ceanothus ‘Joyce Coulter’

This vigorous evergreen shrub, with dark green glossy leaves, has grown 150cm tall by 3 metres wide in my garden where it is planted in a hot dry sunny spot. During late winter and spring large heads of gentian blue flowers, less strident than C. ‘Blue Pacific’, make a, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Ceratostigma

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

Ceratostigma willmotiana ‘Alba’ - White Tibetan Plumbago

Tough, frost hardy and drought tolerant this new form of Tibetan Plumbago has pure white flowers on a tidier bush. I grow this plant in a drift in the dry garden where its late summer and autumn pure white flowers held in clusters on the end of leafy wiry stems are a joy., more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

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

Clematis

Clematis ladakhiana

Named for the area of Northern India bordering Kashmir and Tibet this tough vigorous climber is one of the easiest and most drought tolerant of all Clematis. It has markedly dissected grey-green leaves and from mid-summer into the autumn carries dangling bronze-yellow, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Clematis maximowicziana - Sweet Clematis

Named “sweet” because of its wonderful honey fragrance. We grow it on a trellis in our double borders where, although cut back to 60cm during winter, it covers an area about 2 metres in height and 4 metres in width. During early autumn it is completely smothered by sweetly, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Convolvulus

Convolvulus sabatius ‘Dark Blue’

There can hardly be a better carpeting plant than this dark flowered form of Convolvulus sabatius. In our dry climate garden it makes dense yard wide mats of evergreen foliage thickly studded with sky gazing round deep blue moons. We cut it back to about 15cm during early, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Cotinus

Cotinus ‘Young Lady’ - Young Lady Smoke Bush

A new release and something quite different as this dwarf Dutch selection is grown as much for its precocious flowering, with each shoot carrying a frothy smokey pink flower head, as for its brilliant autumn colour. It is reputed to grow a mere 1.5 metres tall by as much, more...
$20.00 each