Lambley Nursery Perennial Catalogue : E

Echinops bannaticus ‘Taplow Blue’ - Globe Flower

The best of its kind with spherical flower heads, steel-blue in bud opening to large balls of powdery mauve-blue when in full flower. Bold divided foliage, stiff vertical stems and the drumstick flower heads give this plant great architectural strength. We cut it back to the, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Echinops ritro ‘Veitch’s Blue’ - Veitch’s Globe Flower

Veitch’s Globe Flower is one of the stars of our dry garden where its bold dark green divided foliage and stiff stems topped by dark blue drumstick flowers causes quite a stir when in full glory. We rarely list this in the catalogue because almost as soon as plants are potted, more...
$12.00 each or 3 for $33.00

Echium ‘Cobalt Towers’

This is a fairly recent New Zealand introduction which created quite a stir when we planted a decent patch in the Alexandra Gardens in Melbourne. It makes a shrub some 2 metres wide and 1.5 metres tall from which 2 metre tall columns of deep cobalt blue flowers are produced, more...
$10.00 each, 3 for $27.00

Erigeron glaucus ‘Seabreeze’

We’ve been given this plant by our friends at PGA. Although all E. glaucus clones are low growing some have rather lax flower stems. Erigeron ‘Sea Breeze’ has flowers that sit neatly above the evergreen foliage giving a terrific mass display of large lilac-pink daisies. Like, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Eryngium x tripartitum - Sea Holly

I first saw this sea holly flowering splendidly in the purple borders at Sissinghurst Castle more years ago than I care to remember. It produces masses of flowers with metallic blue central cones and a spiky ruff. As it’s a sterile hybrid the individual flowers last a, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Eryngium x zabellii ‘Blue Hills’ - Blue Hills Sea Holly

This plant was raised at Lambley twenty years ago when the nursery was still in the Dandenongs. A handsome plant with steely blue flowers, each with a thimble-like cone surrounded by a large ruff as intricate as a snowflake. It needs very little extra water during summer but, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Eucomis

Eucomis ‘Purple Leaf’

The grandest of all the pineapple lilies making handsome basal rosettes, about 80cm across, of long, wide, glossy purple leaves. During mid to late summer a meter or more tall, strong, stiffly upright stems, purple and glossy, are densely packed on the upper third with white, more...
$7.00 per bulb, 3 for $18.00

Euonymus alatus

Shrubs from China and Japan don’t generally do well here at Lambley. The hot dry winds of summer are too much for them. The deciduous Euonymus alatus is an exception. I planted one about ten years ago and it has never had a burnt leaf and always puts on a really good autumn, more...
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Euphorbia ‘Blue Peaks’ - Blue Peaks Spurge

I’ve had trouble propagating this plant but have managed to get a few to grow. This variety may well have the bluest foliage of all the ornamental spurges. At Lambley it has made a round shrub, some 50cm by 50 cm, clothed in beautiful powder blue leaves and crowned during, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Euphorbia amygdaloides ‘Craigieburn’

A new selection of the purple leaved wood spurge which is a much better doer than plants we’ve sold in the past. E. ‘Craigieburn’ makes a neat round bush with very dark red almost black foliage. During spring it is entirely covered by a billowing mass of lime green flowers., more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Euphorbia characias ‘Silver Swan’

Euphorbia charachias grows wild on hot dry slopes on the southern European side of the Mediterranean and is one of the toughest plants for a dry climate garden. E. ‘Silver Swan’ is another selection from Notcutt’s nursery. Notcutt was prince of the rhododendron world when I, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Euphorbia myrsinites

One of the most useful spurges making prostrate stems of waxy blue leaves. Large lime green flower heads are produced in late winter and spring. In our Dry Garden Euphorbia myrsinites is at its best during September as Tulipa hageri bursts into flames above it. Sun loving and, more...
$8.00 each, or 3 for $21.00

Euphorbia rigida

Grown from seed collected by the Archibalds in Greece “… north of Sparta” this form of Euphorbia rigida starts flowering in the middle of winter with large heads of lime green. The bracts age to crimson during the early spring months. The foliage is handsome the year round, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Euphorbia x martini ‘Tiny Tim’ - Tiny Tim Spurge

A new import E. ‘Tiny Tim’ is the smallest growing of all the Euphorbia x martini clones. It makes a neat round evergreen bush about 30cm by 30cm. During spring and early summer it is covered by a cloud of lime green flowers. Suitable for light shade as well as a sunny spot, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Euphorbia x martinii ‘Ascot Rainbow’ - Ascot Rainbow Spurge

This Lambley introduction is one of the finest of all variegated Euphorbias. Very different in effect from E. ‘Tassie Tiger’, E. ‘Ascot Rainbow’, has soft gold and blue-green leaves with red and pink tonings during cold weather. During spring and early summer cream-gold and, more...
$12.00 or 3 for $33.00