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I've just started growing this pure white form of Anthemis Tinctoria. Like all of its kind it makes a metre wide mound of green feathered leaves which are covered in large, well shaped white daisies from mid spring until summer. An easily grown plant which needs very little extra water this Anthemis is happy in any sunny well drained spot in the garden. 60cm x 90cm.
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Aster 'Monte Cassino' is the best of the Easter Daisies with glistening pure white flowers. Good dark green leafy self-supporting stems are completely smothered in flowers around Easter time. This Dutch raised variety is grown as a commercial cut flower. It's happiest in full sun and needs a little extra summer irrigation to be at its best. I'm planting a row of this Easter Daisy in the vegetable garden this winter. 100cm x 80cm.
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I remember a beautifully grown plant of Buddleja Alternifolia grown as standard in the walled garden at Cruden Farm. The arching willowy branches were densely foliaged and in full bloom and what joy it gave. Our plants are grown in a part of the garden which is never watered and yet this Buddleja is still enormously generous with its arching sprays of mauve flowers. Can be kept to about 2 metres by 2 metres if cut back hard after flowering otherwise it will get much larger.
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An uncommon plant (probably because it is so difficult to propagate) this white flowered form of C. Willmottiana has been a fixture in the blue, white and yellow border just outside my office for nigh in 15 years. An attractive green leaved twiggy shrub it is covered in large showy heads of white flowers from mid summer until late autumn when the foliage blazes red orange and yellow. Tough, drought tolerant plant happiest in full sun. 80cm x 90cm.
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PGA, one of the largest wholesale nurseries in the country, has recently brought in a new range of Dianthus bred by Whetmans Nursery in the UK. Dianthus 'Candy Floss' makes neat tussocks of silver leaves and carries good sized fully double, soft pink, spicily fragrant flowers for many months during spring summer and autumn. Needs sun and is drought tolerant. 25cm x 30cm. Would make a good edging plant in front of roses.
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Another of Whetman’s fine introductions with good healthy silver foliage topped by clove scented double flowers, white with a carmine eye. These neat double Dianthus are known as English pinks and make excellent posies. We grow them all as edging in the vegie garden. Sun loving and drought tolerant. 25cm x 30cm.
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The grey foliaged little Dianthus are tough and drought tolerant as well as beautiful. We grow them in rarely watered beds lining a path in the vegetable garden but they would be equally at home in the dry garden. Dianthus ‘Red Eye’ makes low tight mounds of silver grey needle like foliage. These mound are smothered by sweet, single pink flowers with a prominent deep carmine pink eye. 15cm x 25cm. Sun.
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This seaside daisy has much larger and deeper pink flowers than the typical plant. It also has the advantage of rarely if ever producing viable seed. We have it planted at the side of a path in the dry climate garden where during summer it takes over from earlier flowering bulbs. We cut it back to a clump of about 15cm in winter to make room for the bulbs. Tough, sun loving and drought tolerant it is just as happy inland as on the coast. 20cm x 30cm.
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Of all the northern hemisphere cranesbills Geranium Sanguineum is the most tolerant of heat and dust. This form, which originally came to Lambley from the late Jack Drake’s Nursery in the Scottish highlands, has particularly large clear soft pink, crimson veined flowers. It grows well in our dry garden where it makes a 20cm or so tall mat of incised dark green leaves studded with moon shaped upward facing flowers from spring until near winter. 20cm x 25cm.
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I’ve grown this plant on and off for 30 years. I think I originally bought it from Woodbank Nursery now sadly closed down. A neat but trailing evergreen plant, with intensely silver leaves, it makes a mat about 50cm across. During autumn branching sprays of soft butter yellow everlasting daisies are produced. This is a South African worthy of a spot in any sunny well drained part of the garden. 15cm x 50cm.
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Kniphofia are tough evergreen sun loving plants which are fairly tolerant of dryness and have few wants except occasionally pulling off old foliage or once a year cutting the clump back to 15cm, (during winter with this variety). K. ‘Sunningdale Yellow’ has warm deep butter yellow torches on 120cm tall stems from mid spring until late summer.
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This looked superb in the garden last year. It takes a few years to bulk up and flower freely. A fine clump forming variegated grass with startling arching copper flowers. The foliage mounds grow to 100cm by much the same across becoming grander as the years pass. The flower stems add another 50cm in height to this. The stiff stems and arching leaves are very effective in floral art work. Sun. 150cm x 100cm.
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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 stiffly upright stems clothed in blue leaves. The autumn flowers, held stiffly above the stems, are bluish at first and then turn to oat gold. We grew this in the dry garden last year but sadly it got swamped by other plants but other Panicums have done well in the dry garden. Sun. 80cm x 60cm.
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A new addition to our collection of Oriental poppies. I grow these sumptuous flowers for my wife Criss Canning to paint. We have beds of them in the vegetable garden where the rich soil and regular watering regime suits them. ‘Frilled champagne - tinted petals are flushed and edged with salmon pink, forming a large, exquisitely delicate flower. Purple black blotches and quivering stamens fill the heart.’ Beth Chatto’s description fills my heart. 80cm x 70cm.
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A little different from the run of the mill oriental poppies Papaver ‘Lilac Girl’ produces soft greyish lilac pink flowers some 20cm across. Like all of its kind it needs good soil and a sunny uncrowded position to flower well. All our oriental poppies are grown from cuttings from proven varieties. 60cm x 70cm.
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I’ve been collecting all the varieties of oriental poppies I can because my wife Criss Canning loves painting them so much. We grow them in the vegetable garden where the soil is well nourished and kept watered during the summer. Although they are naturally spring flowers if they are cut back after the first flush they’ll flower again in the autumn. Papaver ‘Sultan’ has huge bright orange flowers with a purple black blotch at the base of each petal. 60cm x 50cm.
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One of my favourite Penstemon with the loveliest blue-mauve white throated flowers nicely poised on long pedicels. Flowering as it does from late spring until winter it has been a mainstay of our double borders for many years. Penstemon are tough plants with very little artificial water requirements. It’s a mistake to cut them back too hard in winter, about half way is safe. We remove old spent stems when the new spring growth gets to 30cm or so. 90cm x 90cm.
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These hybrid Penstemon are amongst the best long flowered evergreen perennials. Rarely out of bloom and needing nothing more than dead heading during the season and tidying up during winter. (Don’t cut them too far back as they struggle to recover. 40cm is hard enough.) P. ‘Blackbird’ has extra long dark wine purple flower tubes on stiff leafy stems. Drought tolerant and sun loving. 90cm x 90cm.
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We got this plant from Dennis Norgate who by the way is still going strong, still growing plants, mostly for the wholesale trade. Penstemon ‘Crimson Gem’ is a dwarf bedding variety, a sport or seedling of P. ‘Newberry Gem’, large crimson red flowers on relatively short stiff stems. It’s as easy to grow and as resistant to drought as all the rest of its kind and is happy in any sunny well drained spot 50cm x 50cm. Rarely offered now.
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This Penstemon which was found growing in Sissinghurst Castle gardens is a clear clean pink. The form usually seen in Australia is a rather muddy pink. Smaller in all its parts than most garden Penstemons it is a good long flowering front of the border plant. Like most of its tribe this plant is pretty tough. 40cm x 40cm.
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These old fashioned Penstemon hybrids are easily grown sun loving evergreen perennials with few wants except dead heading and occasionally removing old spent stems. P. ‘Gladiator’ is one of the largest flowered of the race with huge shameless baggy blooms, wine purple with a white throat. Happy in any sunny position and requires very little extra water. 70cm x 70cm.
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This Penstemon has soft pink flower tubes washed by the faintest hint of salmon whilst a cream throat is striped with carmine perhaps there to guide the insect pollinators, a mini landing strip. I’ve grown a decent group in the double borders for many years. In winter I tidy the plants up by cutting back to about 40cm. Anything more drastic than that and the plant may shuffle off its mortal coil. 70cm x 60cm.
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Deep mauve and pink flower tubes, white throated with red veins in the throat. This has grown without water for three years here and still flowered well last summer. 80 cm x 70cm.
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A low growing plant, wider than it is tall, with lovely smallish mauve-purple white throated flowers. Tough as tough it has grown well without any water here for the last three years. 40cm x 60cm.
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We’ve grown this since the Mount Dandenong days. Like all of these hybrid Penstemon this variety is very tough and drought tolerant. We have an old bed of stock plants which wasn’t watered at all last summer but Penstemon ‘Pink Cloud’ showed no sign of distress and still has flowers at the end of May. This clone is one of the tallest of its kind growing up to 120cm. The top third of this carries charming pink, white throated tubular flowers. 120cm x 90cm.
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An old variety with very big baggy ruby red, white throated flowers. There’s nothing subtle or retiring about this plant. Like all of the English bred penstemons this one has a long flowering period from late spring until the winter. I tidy up the growth during winter but I don’t cut it back hard. It’s best to cut the spent previous years stems to the ground only after the new growth has made 30cm. P ‘Rubicunda’ is happy in any sunny spot and needs very little extra watering. 60cm x60cm
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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.
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Very large soft apple blossom pink flowers the size of P. ‘Rubicunda’ and P. ‘Gladiator’. It was brought into cultivation by Dennis Norgates mother in the middle of last century. 60cm x 50cm. These old varieties are in danger of being lost to cultivation. Many are already unavailable. Tough, drought tolerant sun lover. 60cm x 60cm.
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I was given this plant by a good friend, the late Bill Seale who gardened for Mr and Mrs Kerry Packer at Ellerstone near Scone for many years. Penstemon ‘Willy’s Purple’ is one of the tallest of the race with very upright leafy stems and spires of dark wine purple, waxy flowers. Tough sun lover which gets by with very little water. In the past we’ve grown it with the summer flowering lime green flowered Euphorbia schillingii. 120cm x 70cm
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A good form of this the loveliest of lovely daisies from the hot North African hillsides of Morocco and Algeria. Clear pink flowers with dark centres of burnt umber from early spring until late autumn on low twiggy stems clothed in lovely blue green cut foliage. A star in our dry garden where it thrives on very little water. A quick dead heading every couple of months or so keeps it flowering. Sun. 30cm x 40cm.
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This has all the virtues of the type but with white flowers set in fuzzy white calyces. It holds its colour well and doesn’t brown off unlike so many other white flowers in our climate. Sun or light shade. Drought tolerant. 120cm x 100cm. Those in frosty districts may want to hold off planting this until later spring. A new import from PGA to whom we pay royalties.
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Salvia ‘Phyllis Fancy’ is a tough drought tolerant evergreen, frost hardy shrub flowering from mid summer until winter. The long arching sprays of violet and white flowers are very telling and there is good separation between flowers and foliage. The 160cm tall by as much wide bush grows near and under olive trees in our dry garden. We cut it to the ground in winter to allow under-planted bulbs to grow and flower.
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This is the very dark, early flowering Salvia growing near the entrance to the dry garden. It’s in full flight by October a good month before most of its kind flower. The stiff vertical deep violet blue spikes contrast wonderfully well with yellowy green Euphorbias. We cut the whole plant down to the ground twice a year, once in late autumn, as we have under planted with small winter flowering bulbs, and again in early summer to get a second display in late summer and autumn.45cm x 40cm.
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Santolinas are plants of hot dry southern European hillsides and are quite at home here with our hot dry summers and cold winters. Santolina Rosemarinifolia makes a neat shrubby mound of dark green feathered leaves which during summer is covered by rich yellow billy buttons. Best trimmed over with hedge shears after flowering to keep it tidy. Needs a sunny spot and is tolerant of dryness. 50cm x 60cm.
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Hot dry rocky mountain slopes in Turkey are the home of this beautiful little evergreen grey foliage plant. A compact near prostrate sub shrub covered by intense silver-grey, Prince of Wales Feather leaves. It makes a fine foil for small spring bulbs. It’s best planted in a well drained position in full sun where it will get by on very little water. It is more likely to suffer from over watering than under watering. 15cm x 35cm. Sun. Drought tolerant.
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This Wood Sage is a wonderful evergreen groundcover for shade even fairly dry shade. It makes dense mats of rich green felted leaves with beautiful white scalloping along the edges. During late summer and autumn the 35cm leafy spikes of small creamy green flowers are modest but charming. 35cm x 50cm.
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An uncommon variegated form of Adam’s Needle with softly succulent sword shaped grey leaves marked with several soft yellow stripes. Foliage rosettes are 60cm x 70cm. Mature plants produce 180cm tall stems of fragrant creamy bells. Sun loving and drought tolerant.
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A rare yucca from hot dry Mexican hillsides. Tree like in habit with 6 metres tall leafless trunks sparsely branching. Thick stiff green leaves form an upright crown. Typical stems of large white bells are produced on mature specimens. Allow for a one metre spread.
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Yucca ‘Ivory Towers’, which we originally got from Cruden Farm, makes gardener friendly pewter grey green leaf rosettes 100cm x 100cm. It is happiest in full sun and it can grow with little or no water. The 200cm tall stems carry dozens of fragrant white bells.
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A friend imported tissue cultured plants of this new variegated Yucca last summer. This plant makes evergreen rosettes of beautifully subtle variegated foliage about 90cm tall by 90cm wide. During spring or summer it sends up 2 metres tall flower spikes which carry dozens of large white bells. It will take any amount of drought but is also happy in parts of the garden which are watered.
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