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Panicum

Panicum virgatum ‘Heavy Metal’ - Blue 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...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Panicum virgatum ‘Rubrum’ - Red Prairie Switch Grass

Fountain like clumps of fine arching leaves are topped by a cloud of maroon midge-like flowers during autumn. Late in the season the foliage turns bronze red and finally to straw gold during winter. In the past I’ve grown it where it gets regular summer irrigation but these, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $27.00

Papaver

Papaver orientale ‘Can Can’ - Can Can Oriental Poppy

Papaver ‘Can Can’ has large tangerine flowers with pronounced flash of white on the outside of each petal and a broad brush of purple black on the inside. A spectacular flower on a resilient plant. We grow the oriental poppies in rows in the kitchen garden and pick large, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Papaver orientale ‘Pink Princess’

Just about all our oriental poppies are grown in well nourished and well watered soil in our vegetable garden. Papaver ‘Pink Princess’ has huge luscious flesh pink flowers with carmine central blotches. We cut off the spent flowers stems after first spring/summer flush is, more...
$9.00 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

Penstemon

Penstemon ‘Blue Midnight’

Penstemon ‘Blue Midnight’ has a glossy light reflecting surface to its dark violet purple flowers which makes for a very telling effect when combined with lime green flowers such as summer flowering Euphorbia or Nicotiana. As with all of the shrubby penstemon we give them a, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Perovskia

Perovskia ‘Filigrin’ - Filigrin Russian Sage

This newly imported variety of Russian Sage was a gift from New Zealand nurseryman, Ian Duncalf. Smaller growing than others of its kind it has intricately cut, lace like leaves and typical long spires of dark violet flowers which are held above the leafy stems in this, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Perovskia atriplicifolia ‘Little Spires’

A fairly new import from the USA where it is very highly rated. It 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 where it impresses all our, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Phlomis

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

Pinus

Pinus pinea - Stone Pine

A row of stone pines was planted here at Lambley in the 1870s. Whilst most were removed many years ago to make way for a cypress windbreak one tree remains and what a beautiful tree it is. It is twenty five metres tall with a sinuous, sculptured trunk. Very tough and happy, more...
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Pittosprum

Pittosprum tobira - Japanese Mock Orange

One of the best evergreen shrubs for coastal planting where it is often grown as a hedge. An old planting of it can still be found the front of the Queenscliff Hotel in Victoria. It has handsome dark glossy evergreen foliage and spring flowers which fill the air with the, more...
$10.00

Poa

Poa labillardieri ‘Suggan Buggan’

A fabulous form of this native grass with arching mounds of evergreen foliage, blue and graceful. Typical upright stems of flowers bluish in bud ageing to straw. Cut back to about 15cm immediately after flowering. 100cm x 100cm. Sun or at most very light shade. The best blue, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Pyracantha

Pyracantha ‘Weston Compact’ - Weston’s Firethorn

I have been wondering for years what this plant was called. I first saw it growing on a quarry face in the Women’s Peace Garden at Flemington, an inner city suburb of Melbourne. Although never ever watered it has flourished for many years and has made an evergreen shrub, more...
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