Lambley Nursery Perennial Catalogue : G

Genista

Genista frivaldszlcyana - Prostrate Bulgarian Broom

I first saw this plant in Joy Hawthorne’s garden in Sassafras more than twenty years ago. Mrs Hawthorne had raised it from seed collected in Bulgaria. It is the best ground cover in our dry garden where it has made yard wide carpets underneath a group of tree aloes. During, more...
$15.00

Genista lydia

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...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Geranium

Geranium sanguineum ‘Cedric Morris’

I’ve got a soft spot for any plant called Cedric Morris, that gentle English artist and gardener. G. sanguineum takes our hot summers better than most of the northern hemisphere geraniums. The round iridescent magenta flowers of this clone are larger than the type. I grow it, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Geranium sanguineum ‘Shepherd’s Warning’

Mounds of dark green leaves are studded with round dark magenta purple sky facing flowers from spring until winter. 15cm x 40cm.
$9.00 each or 3 for $24.00

Geum

Geum rivale ‘Norgate’s Flame’

A new and fairly tough variety raised by my old friend Dennis Norgate who at 85 years of age is still growing plants although for the wholesale trade only. This Geum is a dwarf evergreen plant making foliage tufts no more than 15cm tall. A succession of orange flamed yellow, more...
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Glaucium

Glaucium flavum - Yellow Horn Poppy

This poppy gets its popular name from its seed heads which are like long narrow silver horns. The silver foliage rosettes are bold and handsome the year round. The good sized yellow poppies are produced for many months starting in late spring. It makes a fine show in our dry, more...
$8.00 each or 3 for $21.00