Lambley Nursery Perennial Catalogue : M

Mandevilla

Mandevilla laxa - Frost Hardy Chilean Jasmine

Unlike all other Mandevillas this one tolerates frost. I’ve grown this vigorous climber on an old shearing shed here at Lambley for 17 years. Each summer and autumn a succession of giant jasmine-like flowers, with a delicious fragrance somewhere between a gardenia and a, more...

$10.00 each

Matthiola

Matthiola arborescens - Shrubby Stock

This is not very different from M. incana but in our garden it makes a larger plant and is more long lived than M.incana. It makes a round grey leaved shrub covered for many months in short stems carrying spicily fragrant white, pink flushed flowers. On still warm spring, more...

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Miscanthus

Miscanthus sinensis ssp. condensatus ‘Cosmopolitan’ - Cosmopoliton Silver Feather Grass

This is a first Lambley listing of this superb variegated grass which has been cultivated for 50 years in Japan. It is almost evergreen with us, although we cut it to the ground in mid-winter, and makes 2 metres tall foliage fountains. The copper red flower feathers, held, more...

$10.00 each or 3 for $27.00

Miscanthus sinensis ‘Flamingo’ - Pink Flowered Feather Grass

Piet Oudolf and Michael King in their useful book ‘Gardening with Grasses’ describe this cultivar as follows “.....one of the best varieties. A pink flowering, free hanging form, possessing lightness and elegance. Lovely autumn colour is a further advantage.” It made noble, more...

$9.00 each or 3 for $24.00

Miscanthus sinensis ‘Gold Bar’ - Gold Bar Chinese Feather Grass

A new selection of variegated Miscanthus much smaller growing than M. ‘Zebrinus’ and unlike the latter is neat and tidy. It has a rigidly upright growth habit and its dark green leaves are heavily banded with gold. It impressed visitors to our garden last summer and autumn. A, more...

$11.00 or 3 for $30.00

Miscanthus sinensis ‘Gracillimus’

The true ‘Gracillimus’ not a seed introduction. This makes a 100cm tall clump of slender elegant foliage developing an interesting swirl during the season. In late autumn and winter it has lovely autumn tones of orange, gold and coffee. The late autumn flower stems reach, more...

$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Miscanthus sinensis ‘Hiawatha’ - Hiawatha Feather Grass

This is one of our own seedlings which popped up in the garden about ten years ago. So many visitors to the nursery admired it and begged us for a piece that we propagated it and finally have enough to sell. Less fountain like, more vertical in growth than most feather, more...

$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Miscanthus sinensis ‘Silber Feder’ (syn. Silver Feather) - Silver Feather Grass

An old clone which still warrants a place in the gardens. We have grown it for many years in a border near an old shearing shed, now an office and packing shed, where its silver flower heads echoed against a cypress windbreak in the background. It makes dark green foliage, more...