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Echinops

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

Echium

Echium ‘Herronswood Pink’

A good pink flowered Echium which has done well here in a frosty spot in our stock beds. More compact in growth than the other pink flowered Echium that we sell. With its rich pink, plump flower heads and rich pink and fatter flower heads and grey foliage it makes a great, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Elymus

Elymus magellanicus - Blue Wheat Grass

Blue Wheat Grass, which has been on my must have list for twenty years, is the bluest of all blue grasses. It makes a 50 cm tall by 60cm across tussock and whilst it is evergreen here I cut it back to 15 cm during winter. Originally from the mountains of Chile and Argentina, more...
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Eragrostis

Eragrostis spectabilis - Purple Love Grass

One of the loveliest of all ornamental grasses when in full glory. Low basal leaves are completely covered by clouds of reddish purple flowers during summer. These age to soft brown during winter. This drought tolerant grass, found wild from Maine to Mexico, has settled in, more...
$9.00 each or 3 for $24.00

Eragrostis trichoides - Purple Love Grass

A plant of the great prairie plains of the United States, the Pink Love Grass has huge panicles of reddish pink flowers which, during summer, can completely hide the foliage mounds. This grass tolerates drought and has done well here at Lambley on our volcanic soils, but, more...
$9.00 each or 3 for $24.00

Eryngium

Eryngium amethystinum - Italian Sea Holly

An easily grown rare and beautiful plant from Southern Europe which makes a superb addition to the flower garden. During summer 40cm tall branching flower stems carry heads of steely blue flowers with a faint hint of amethyst. The flowers last a long time in the vase and also, more...
$9.00 each or 3 for $24.00

Eryngium bourgatii ‘Oxford Blue’ - Oxford Blue Sea Holly

This has been growing in our dry climate garden for ten years or more. The flowers, a metallic blue thimble, are circled by a metallic blue ruff, as intricate as a snowflake. This Sea Holly has interesting evergreen foliage, much cut and two toned green and silver. If spent, 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...
$12.00 or 3 for $33.00

Euphorbia

Euphorbia ‘Blue Peaks’ - Blue Peaks Spurge

This variety may well have the bluest foliage of all the ornamental Euphorbias. At Lambley it has made a round shrub, some 50cm by 50cm, clothed in beautiful powder blue leaves and crowned during spring and summer with large chartreuse flower heads. Happy in any sunny well, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Euphorbia dendroides

A plant of hot dry coastal areas of the southern European and North African more commonly on Mediterranean islands from Corsica and Sardinia to Crete and Rhodos. It also grows on the Canary Islands. With us it makes a 1 metre tall shrub, with an equal spread, covered by, more...
$9.00 each or 3 for $24.00

Euphorbia mellifera

Makes a magnificent evergreen foliage plant some two metres tall by two thirds as much wide. The large matt green, red edged leaves have a marked white central vein. In late winter showy clusters of reddish brown flowers are produced. Frost hardy with us, but small plants, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

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 stygiana

This plant is nearly extinct in the wild where a few grow at three sites inside inactive volcanic craters in Madeira. Unusually long and broad fresh green leaves have a narrow red margin and a cream midrib.The green and red eyed flowers are produced in spring. A rare and, more...
One per customer $15.00 each