Lambley Nursery Perennial Catalogue : C

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 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 ‘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 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 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 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 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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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 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 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

Cotinus coggygria ‘Velvet Cloak’ - Velvet Cloak Smoke Bush

Cotinus are amongst the best of all drought tolerant, frost hardy, long lived trees and shrubs available for the garden. I grow about twenty plants of five varieties of Cotinus at Lambley and this year I will be planting more. Velvet Cloak is an upright growing selection with, more...
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Cytisus

Cytisus x dallimorei ‘Lena’

A compact growing broom, sometimes sold as C. ‘Volcano’, with rich dark green leaves and dark green vertical stems. During spring and early summer C. ‘Lena’ is smothered with pea shaped flowers, ruby red and yellow. This is a fine small shrub for hot dry positions. 120cm x 100cm.
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00