Lambley Nursery Perennial Catalogue : L

Lepechinea

Lepechinea salviae - Chilean Pitcher Sage

This is one of the stalwarts of our dry garden where it makes strong upright shrubby growth well covered by large grey arrow shaped leaves. From mid summer until quite late in the autumn the plant is topped by large spikes of dark purple pink flowers. Much visited by our, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Leucanthemum

Leucanthemum ‘Phyllis Smith’ - Fringed Shasta Daisy

A newly imported Shasta Daisy which Lambley got from Beth Chatto’s famous nursery in the UK. It makes a mat of evergreen leaves and carries 90cm tall leafy stems topped by large heads of crinkled white flowers. Happy in any sunny spot and drought tolerant when once, more...
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Ligustrum

Ligustrum japonicum ‘Rotundifolium’

I first saw this handsome evergreen shrub growing in the gardens of Ferny Creek Nursery forty years ago. The old plant there had made a column some 180cm tall by 90cm wide and with its round, dark almost blackish green leaves, closely set together along the branches, was, more...
$9.00 each or 3 for $24.00

Limonium

Limonium peregrinum (syn. L. roseum) - Shrubby Statice

One of the finest dwarf shrubs for a dry climate. This statice, to quote E.E. Lord, “..... will endure dry conditions and inland frosts alike”. Limonium peregrinum forms a low rounded evergreen shrub with leathery bright leaves. For much of the year it has flat topped sprays, more...
$9.00 each or 3 for $24.00

Lycianthes

Lycianthes rantonnetii ‘Purple Robe’

We grow several plants in the garden and also two plants trained as standards which we grow in pots on a hot paved area. This shrub grows as happily in shade as in full sun. One of our plants which rarely gets watered grows under a wattle tree where it gets a mere two hours, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00