Lambley Nursery Perennial Catalogue : T

Teucrium

Teucrium hyrcanicum

Growing wild in Iran and neighbouring countries, it is as tough a plant as you could want. Stiff upright stems clothed in dark green sage like leaves are topped with dense spikes of purple red flowers. Happy in any sunny spot it grows merrily here with no extra summer, more...
$8.00 or 3 for $21.00

Teucrium marum - Cat Thyme

Teucrium marum makes a dense twiggy grey foliaged little shrublet covered in summer with masses of magenta flowers on short spikes. It is a very tough, drought tolerant, heat loving Mediterranean plant with few wants except a light trim after flowering. We grow it in our dry, more...
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Thymus

Thymus ‘Snow Mound’ - Snow Mound Thyme

I grew this from seed collected in the mountains of Turkey. T. ‘Snow Mound’ was chosen as the best plant from a batch of twenty or thirty seedlings. It makes a tight green mound which is covered by pure white flowers in spring and early summer. A bonus is the strong delicious, more...
$8.00 each or 3 for $21.00

Thymus mastichina - Spanish Thyme

Spanish Thyme grows into a low woody based plant with grey leaves and white flowers. In the Iberian Peninsula this thyme is used to make a fragrant essential oil. The form that we grow here at Lambley makes a sub shrub about 60cm across by 25cm tall. The whitish flowers open, more...
$8.00 or 3 for $21.00

Thymus pseudolanguinosus - Woolly Thyme

This “The wooliest of all the thymes” makes a dense, short carpet of tiny grey leaves. During summer it has masses of small pink flowers pressed against the foliage. We grow it in a hot dry sunny position. It is happy in the rock garden or spilling over stone walls. 5cm tall, more...
$8.00 or 3 for $21.00

Trachelospermum

Trachelospermum asiaticum

There can’t be many better evergreen ground cover plants than this woodland plant from East Asia. As long as it is watered it will grow quite happily in sun and shade. It makes dense mats of dark glossy green leaves and exquisite fragrant jasmine like flowers. It will grow, more...
$10.00 or 3 for $27.00

Tulbaghia

Tulbaghia violacea ‘John May’s Special’

This variety is the tallest and most handsome of all the Tulbaghias which flowers on stems some 80cm tall. It looks for all the world like a pink flowered Agapanthus. The grassy foliage clumps are evergreen and the strong flower stems produce heads of large mauve-pink flowers, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Tunica

Tunica saxifraga

A mat forming perennial with short grass like leaves. In late spring and summer 30cm stems are covered with tiny, pink Dianthus like flowers. Cut back when finished for another blooming. A good plant for the rock garden it is drought tolerant and prefers sun. 10cm x 30cm.
$9.00 each or 3 for $24.00