Lambley Nursery Perennial Catalogue : P

Panicum

Panicum virgatum ‘Heavy Metal’ - Blue Prairie Switch Grass

This is totally different in both leaf colour and outline to the other Panicums that we’ve listed in previous catalogues. Panicum ‘Heavy Metal’ makes clumps of stiff upright stems clothed in blue leaves. The autumn flowers, held above the stems, are bluish at first and then, more...
$12.00 or 3 for $33.00

Panicum virgatum ‘Rotstrahlbusch’ - Red Beam Prairie Switch Grass

We grow this in the double flower borders with Sedum and that giant of the prairie, Joe Pye Weed. The narrow leaves and airiness of its flowers make this grass a soft contrast to the large leaves and flowers of its neighbours. Red Beam Switch Grass makes a tidy clump of, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Papaver

Papaver orientale ‘Bloody Mary’

The oriental poppies are amongst the most sumptuous of all temperate climate plants rivalling the showiest tropical flowers. We grow them in a bed in the kitchen garden picking them for the house and for Criss to paint. Flowering in late spring Papaver ‘Bloody Mary’ has large, more...
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Papaver orientale ‘Drunken Choir Boy’

Not only is this my favourite name for a plant but also my favourite oriental poppy. The huge and sumptuous flowers, white with a dark blotch, flush pink with age. We grow all the oriental poppies in the vegetable garden where they are well fed and watered. They are, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Papaver orientale ‘Dubloon’

A lot of orange oriental poppies are almost too brazen. Papaver ‘Dubloon’ with its softer golden orange flowers is more subtle than most. We’ve grown this relative newcomer for a couple of years now and although the flowers are a little smaller than others of its kind it, more...
$10.00 each or 3 for $27.00

Papaver orientale ‘Fatima’

An exquisite oriental poppy with palest blush almost white flowers suffused deeper pink towards the edge of each petal. 70cm x 50cm.
$10.00 each or 3 for $27.00

Papaver orientale ‘Salmon Glow’

From rich green ferny leaved clumps, many 50cm tall stems carry sumptuous soft salmon pink flowers. Each petal has a subtle paint stroke deepening at the base. As with all of these poppies, ‘Salmon Glow’ needs good soil with regular summer irrigation. 50cm x 50cm.
$10.00 each or 3 for $27.00

Papaver orientale ‘Turkenlouis’ - Turkenlouis Oriental Poppy

My wife, Criss Canning, loves painting these sumptuous flowers and over the years I’ve built up quite a collection which i grow in the vegetable garden. Papaver ‘Turkenlouis’, a new addition to our collection, has flowers with red serrated petals with black blotches at the, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Parthenosissus

Parthenosissus quinquefolia - Virginia Creeper

It’s one of the great joys of late autumn here at Lambley when the Virginia Creeper sets the vegetable garden paling fence on fire as the green, five fingered leaves turn intense red. It attaches itself to the fence by padded tendrils. Fast growing and happy in sun or light, more...
$9.00 each or 3 for $24.00

Pelargonium

Pelargonium reniforme

Pelargonium reniforme is one of an interesting and beautiful group of frost hardy South African Pelargoniums. It’s been growing in our dry garden for three years and has performed so well we have planted another large patch by the side of a gravel path. Evergreen with round, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Pelargonium sidoides

This is a similar plant to Pelargonium reniforme and is just as tough. The main difference is in the colour of the flowers. P. sidioides has dark chocolate maroon almost black flowers. We are moving our group in the dry garden to a spot in front of Euphorbia ‘Copton Ash’ and, more...
$11.00 or 3 for $30.00

Penstemon

Penstemon ‘Garnet’

Bred in the 1920’s and still one of the best of its kind, Penstemon ‘Garnet’ has been a stalwart of our double flower borders for at least ten years. 60cm tall stems clothed with narrow glossy dark green leaves carry dozens of rich magenta pink flowers from spring until, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Penstemon ‘Papal Purple’

A low growing rather spreading plant with lovely smallish mauve-purple white throated flowers. 40cm x 60cm.
$8.00 or 3 for $21.00

Penstemon ‘Sour Grapes’

This is one of the most famous of all the Penstemon. Vita Sackville-West had it growing at Sissinghurst for many years. It has soft green, amethyst and blue, narrowly tubular flowers. 70cm x 60cm.
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Penstemon barbatus

Humming birds pollinate this native of Arizona, Utah, Texas, Colorado and Mexico. Different in habit from most Penstemon grown here, P. barbatus makes basal rosettes of glossy fresh green leaves. 100cm tall spires carry from top to bottom hundreds of good sized scarlet red, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Perovskia

Perovskia atriplicifolia ‘Little Spires’

This is very upright in growth and has long spires of rich violet flowers which combine well with its grey foliage. We have a large group planted at the entrance to our dry garden. Tough, drought tolerant, sun lover. It looks better and does much better when planted in a, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Phlomis

Phlomis ‘Edward Bowles’

A fine new hybrid Phlomis which combines the best properties of both its parents making a low evergreen, handsome foliaged shrub which carries metre tall leafy flowering stems carrying whorls of yellow clawed flowers in a candelabra like effect. Tough drought tolerant sun, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Phlomis anatolica ‘Lloyds Variety’

As the name suggests this tough drought tolerant, evergreen shrub hails from Turkey. We grow it in our dry garden where its silver leaves and whorls of yellow claw like flowers are handsome the year round. We cut it back halfway during winter to keep it tidy. It flowers on, more...
$10.00

Phlomis tuberosa

Most Phlomis we grow are shrubby but this one is a herbaceous perennial. It makes a rosette of large, dark green puckered basal leaves. During spring and early summer several stiffly vertical stems carry whorls of mauve-pink flowers. These flower heads age wonderfully well, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Pittosporum

Pittosporum tobira ‘Wheeler’s Dwarf’

Pittosporum tobira is a fine coastal plant resistant to salt winds. It is also happy inland and will grow in sun or shade. This new low growing form, Pittosprum tobira ’Wheelers Dwarf’, makes a neat round evergreen shrub to about a metre in height and a little more across., more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00