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Verbascum

Verbascum atropurpureum

This is the smallest growing of the perennial Verbascums. Soundly perennial and very drought tolerant this Central Asian native is relatively new to cultivation. In my garden it makes a small neat evergreen rosette of violet tinted green leaves. For many months from spring, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Verbascum splendidum

The day SBS garden presenter Costa visited Lambley last January the temperature hit 44C. One plant which astonished him and which his crew filmed was this Verbascum. A Turkish endemic, in its first year V. splendidum makes an enormous silver-white rosette, some 150cm across., more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Verbena

Verbena rigida f.lilacina

A tough trouble free Verbena affected neither by mildew nor blistering heat. In our dry climate garden it comes into its own during summer and autumn as its pale lilac flower heads weave and thread their way through and around Geranium sanguineum and Agapanthus ‘Margaret, more...
$8.00 or 3 for $21.00

Veronica

Veronica austriaca ‘Kapitan’ - Kapitan Speedwell

A friend imported this plant a good 20 years ago. I’m not sure that we’ve ever sold it before but I think not. Veronica ‘Kapitan’ makes prostrate green mats which, during spring, throw up 20cm spikes of deep gentian blue flowers. In England it’s thought of as a dry garden, more...
$9.00 or 3 for $24.00

Viburnum

Viburnum x burkwoodii

My wife, Criss Canning, calls this the Lady in the Bath flower because her grandfather used to say that it had the fragrance of a lady stepping out of her bath. It’s been happy in our garden for nearly twenty years without much if any supplementary watering and in that time, more...
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Viola

Viola odorata ‘Lady Hume Campbell’ - Lady Hume Campbell’s Parma Violet

Parma Violets have been cultivated in Europe for more than two hundred years. Empress Josephine grew at least one variety in her garden at Malmaison. V. ‘Lady Hume Campbell’ with its beautiful double lavender-mauve intensely fragrant flowers was introduced into England from, more...
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Vitex

Vitex agnus - castus ‘Abbeville Blue’

A hardy, drought tolerant, tall shrub with fragrant panicles of lavender blue flowers throughout the summer. Large silvery blue leaves. Deciduous. 5 metres x 2 metres.
$12.00 each