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Salvia

Salvia azurea

Very few flowers are as dreamy as this. We have a sea of its ethereal powder sky blue flowers in the garden in front of the old cottage and grow white and crimson lilies through it as well as magenta purple dahlias and greenish white flowered Ornithogalum saundersiae. S., more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Salvia greggii ‘Raspberry Royal’

One of the best of this group and one we use extensively in our double flower borders. Salvia ‘Raspberry Royal’ makes a small, twiggy, shrubby plant which is covered in rich dark cerise pink flowers through most of the warmer months. It is especially good in autumn when it, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Salvia involucrata ‘Mulberry Jam’ - Mulberry Jam Rose Leaved Salvia

I’ve only had this plant a year or two. It’s smaller growing than the better known Salvia involucrata ‘Bethellii’ barely making a metre in height and something less across. Dark rich fuchsia pink flowers from similarly coloured bracts are produced on leafy upright stems from, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Salvia microphylla ‘Pink Blush’

An uninspiring name for a very good plant which was given an Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society. Clear rich pink flowers on a neat twiggy plant with good green leaves. Very tolerant of hot, dry weather and tolerant of drought. One of the best of its, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Salvia nemorosa

and its close allies

I grow about twenty different named clones of this most beautiful and useful group of Salvias. Except for a couple of my own seedlings and one plant generously given to me by the Geelong Botanic Gardens, all the cultivars I grow are from imported stock and reproduced by, more...

Salvia nemorosa ssp. tesquicola

This salvia is one of the best of nemorosa types with spikes of rich violet flowers set in large lilac bracts from late spring until autumn. It responds well to dead heading although we cut it to the ground when it looks tired after the first 12 weeks of flowers. It repays, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Salvia nemorosa ‘Amethyst’

This plant was raised by the Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf and is a great improvement on the seed raised varieties such as S. ‘Rose Queen’. In the dry garden we grow a decent patch by the side of a narrow path with purple Alliums and dark blue Agapanthus. Salvia, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Salvia nemorosa ‘Blauhugel’ (‘Blue Hills’)

Softer and more nearly true blue than other Salvia nemorosa types this is a wonderful addition to the group. Gentle mauve-blue flower spikes are produced on a tidy low growing plant from spring until winter. Like all the nemorosas we cut this to the ground during winter and, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Salvia nemorosa ‘Caradonna’

I never grow tired of these good tough salvias. S. ‘Caradonna’ distinguishes itself by holding its rich violet flower spikes on stiff black stems. A fairly new plant it has done very well in our dry garden this year where it flowered early on with creamy lemon Lupinus, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Salvia nemorosa ‘Lambley Dumble’

A chance seedling which I found growing in our double flower borders near Salvia x superba ‘Tanzarin’ and S. nemorosa ‘Ostfriesland’ and I can only assume that it is a hybrid between those two. Tall and stiffly upright with markedly blackish stems and spikes of glowing dark, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Salvia nemorosa ‘Marcus’

The dwarfest of all the Salvia nemorosa types making short spikes of dark violet blue flowers a mere 30cm tall. Useful for the front of the border or even a rock garden. 30cm x 30cm.
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Salvia nemorosa ‘Ostfriesland’

A stunning German bred plant with dozens of spikes of glowing rich deep violet flowers beginning in late spring. After about 10 weeks of extraordinary beauty the flowers pass their prime and we cut the whole plant to the ground. After 2 or 3 weeks this ruthlessness is, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Salvia nemorosa ‘Snow Hills’

There aren’t many good white flowered salvias. Salvia ‘Snow Hills’ is a sport of S. ‘Blue Hills’ (Blauhugel) and makes dwarf tidy clumps of stiff upright stems which carry spikes of clean white flowers. It has grown well in the dry climate garden here at Lambley Nursery, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Salvia sclarea ‘Archibald’s Form’ - Archibald’s Clary Sage

We offer a superb form of the Clary Sage collected by Jim and Jenny Archibald in Turkey about 18 years ago. It makes a mound of large rough grey green leaves which supports enormous columns of lilac hooded white lipped flowers surrounded by large bracts of pink white and, more...
$8.00 or 3 for $21.00

Salvia x sylvestris ‘Lye End’

Jeremy Francis, who with his wife Valerie, gardens at Cloude Hill in the Dandenongs, imported this variety about 20 years ago. It was raised by the English gardener, Miss Poole, and named for her garden, Lye End. Taller than most of its kind at 120 cm it carries long spikes, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Santolina

Santolina chamaecyparissus ‘Nana’ - Dwarf Lavender Cotton

This forms a dense dwarf bush of intensely silvery white feathered leaves. Yellow billy button flowers are produced in summer. If clipped this Santolina will make a good edging or knot garden plant. It sails through our hot dry summers with barely a watering. This is an Award, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Sedum

Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’

Beginning in mid-summer the large cauliflower shaped flower heads change from pale green in bud to soft baby pink then to deep pink through deep salmon-pink to dark coral-pink and finally, as autumn progresses into winter, rich mahogany brown. The toothed bluish leaves are, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Sedum ‘Matrona’

Thought by some, including me, to be the best of all the taller growing Sedum. Handsome the year round it makes 90cm or more tall stiff maroon stems clothed with waxy blue leaves. These leafy stems are topped, during late summer and autumn, with large cauliflower heads of, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Sedum spectabile ‘Meteor’

Sedum spectabile, a native of Korea and Northern China, has been grown in Australia for many years. Its puce pink flowers are not easy to love. Sedum ‘Meteor’ has more appealing rich purple flower heads on typical pale glaucous green foliaged stems. Although succulent in, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Sedum telephium subsp. ruprechtii ‘Beth Chattos Form’

This plant has made a big impression in our dry climate garden. Planted in full sun it produces 60cm tall stems clothed in waxy leaves, blue with a soft purple blush. The large heads of creamy lemon flower heads are produced in late summer and age to burnt bronze during, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Stylophorum

Stylophorum diphyllum - Celandine Poppy, Wood Poppy

A plant of the Eastern US woodlands the Celandine Poppy has grown in the same spot in my garden for 15 years. It is in complete shade during summer but gets more light during its early spring until early summer flowering period. Yellow poppies, the size of a 50 cent coin, are, more...
$8.00 each or 3 for $21.00

Syringa

Syringa laciniata - Cut Leaf Lilac

This native of the province of Gansu in northern China was “...one of the first oriental lilacs to travel. Crossed somewhere on the way, it found its way as the hybrid S. X persica into Persia long ago.” Writes Fr. John Fiala in his fine monograph Lilacs:The Genus Syringa., more...
$12.00 each