Nearly everyone who has seen this plant flowering at Lambley wants one. Galtonia viridiflora is a plant of great if subtle charm. It flowers much later and for much longer than the better known G. candicans. From late summer until late autumn the loveliest green bells hang, more...

This is a much more compact plant than the type and although its catkins are not quite as long as other clones they are more freely produced. This drought tolerant, frost hardy, evergreen shrub flowers in the middle of winter. Happy in full sun or a little light shade. 250cm, more...

I used to grow hundreds of these for the wholesale trade 20 odd years ago but stupidly didn’t bring any stock to Ascot when we moved here. I got Genista lydia again seven years ago and planted it in the dry climate garden where it is completely at home. It makes a mounding, more...