This wonderful plant has beget many named offspring from ugly dwarfs to reasonably bearable semi-dwarfs. None of the progeny are as beautiful as their parent. I am a huge fan of this plant. Read more about Nandina domestica
A tall, bushy catmint with upright spikes of soft pink flowers opening from dusky purple calyces. It will flower from early summer and, if spent flowers are removed, will continue flowering until late autumn. Read more about Nepeta ‘Dawn to Dusk’
This very neat and tidy plant makes a wonderful border; it is especially beautiful when grown in front of roses. It has an obliging growth habit as new flower stems arch over and hide the older spent flower stems so that it doesn’t need dead heading during the growing season. Read more about Nepeta ‘Dropmore’
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‘Walker’s Low’ catmint has been growing in our double borders for a dozen years or so. Strong vertical clothed in greyish leaves, carry spikes of lavender-blue flowers of a similar colour to N. Read more about Nepeta racemosa ‘Walkers Low’
This is the catmint featured in the English coffee table gardening books. We grow it in front of a stone wall in a bed which is never watered. It is a mainstay of the gardens surrounding our home. Read more about Nepeta ‘Six Hills Giant’
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From a very tough evergreen mat of dark green leaves, stiff, twiggy, leafy stems carry heads of long-lasting vibrant purple-pink flowers from summer to autumn. Read more about Origanum laevigatum ‘Herrenhausen’
The ornamental origanums are not used enough in gardens and shouldn't be confused with the culinary forms. Originally from Greece and Turkey, they are drought tolerant and take both our hot summer sun and our very cold winters. Read more about Origanum ‘Rosenkuppel’
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. Happy in any sunny spot it is quite tolerant of dry periods. Read more about Panicum virgatum ‘Rubrum’
We have grown this in our garden for fifteen years or more and it has consistently made a terrific display of autumn colour turning crimson, pink and lemon during April and May. Read more about Panicum virgatum ‘Autumn Glory’
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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 stiff upright stems clothed in blue leaves. Read more about Panicum virgatum ‘Heavy Metal’
It’s one of the great joys of late autumn here at Lambley when the Virginia Creeper sets the vegetable garden paling fence on fire as the green, five fingered leaves turn an intense red. Read more about Parthenocissus quinquefolia
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 almost three decades and has performed so well we have planted another large patch by the side of a gravel path. Read more about Pelargonium reniforme
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This plant is just as tough as Pelargonium reniforme, the other frost hardy South African pelargonium we grow in our Dry Garden. The main difference is in the colour of the flowers. P. sidioides has dark chocolate maroon almost black flowers. Read more about Pelargonium sidoides
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Penstemons are gardening mainstays. Frost-hardy, evergreen and long-flowering, from the showy hybrids to the tough and hardy species forms, there is literally one suited for every garden in Australia. Read more about Penstemons (Beardtongues)
My favourite Penstemon, with the loveliest blue-mauve white throated flowers beautifully 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. Read more about Penstemon ‘Alice Hindley’
An old vigorous variety raised in Switzerland in the 1930s, now nearing its 100th birthday. “A glowing shade of red...” narrowly tubular flowers are a joy from late spring until winter. Read more about Penstemon ‘Firebird’
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Bred in the 1920’s and still one of the best of its kind, Penstemon ‘Garnet’ has been a stalwart of our double flower borders for at least ten years. Read more about Penstemon ‘Garnet’
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These are at their best when planted at intervals throughout a long perennial border. Like all of these hybrid Penstemon this variety is very tough and drought tolerant. ‘Pink Cloud’ is one of the tallest of its kind growing up to 120cm. Read more about Penstemon ‘Pink Cloud’
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I sometimes encounter plants labelled in this country in error as 'Purple Bedder', but this great favourite cultivar has been grown from the genuine strain of this Penstemon which has superior bright reddish-purple flowers over glossy leaves, from spring until winter. Read more about Penstemon ‘Purple Bedder’
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Very different in growth habit from most Penstemon grown in Australia, P. barbatus makes basal rosettes of glossy fresh green leaves. 100cm tall spires carry from top to bottom hundreds of good- sized, scarlet-red, tubular flowers. Read more about Penstemon barbatus ‘Norgate’s Scarlet’
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With a delightful olde worlde cottage garden aesthetic, Penstemon ‘Thorn’ is an upright perennial with panicles of tubular white flowers tinged with deep pink at the tips of the lobes. It blooms from late spring through summer into autumn. Evergreen. Read more about Penstemon ‘Thorn’
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One for fans of the Bee Gees and certainly flamboyant in colour, this Penstemon is an easily grown sun loving evergreen perennial with few wants except dead heading and the removal of old spent stems in mid spring. Sun and some summer watering sees them perform at their best. Read more about Penstemon ‘Maurice Gibbs’
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Penstemons are easily grown sun loving perennials with few wants except dead heading and the removal of old spent stems in mid-spring. Penstemon ‘Mother of Pearl’ has fabulous flowers, pale mauve blue, blush and white with purple internal veining. 60 x 60cm Read more about Penstemon ‘Mother of Pearl’
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'Rock Candy Ruby' is a new dwarf growing variety of this Californian species which will produce showy ruby-pink tubular flowers from spring until late autumn on 30cm tall leafy stems. Read more about Penstemon barbatus ‘Rock Candy Ruby’
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'Rock Candy Pink' is a new dwarf growing variety of this Californian species which will produce showy light-pink tubular flowers from spring until late autumn on 30cm tall leafy stems. Read more about Penstemon barbatus ‘Rock Candy Pink’
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'Rock Candy Blue' is a new dwarf growing variety of this Californian species which will produce showy bluish-red tubular flowers from spring until late autumn on 30cm tall leafy stems. Read more about Penstemon barbatus ‘Rock Candy Blue’
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This species of Penstemon has proven itself to be very tough. It is the only one which has found a place in our Dry Garden where it provides a wonderful spray of colour in the toughest of hot weather. Much-loved by our resident New Holland Honeyeaters as a source of nectar. Read more about Penstemon barbatus ‘Salmoneus’
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This new variety of the well known species has been awarded a Fleuroselect Gold Medal, one of Europe’s highest awards. Growing only half the height of the species it is well suited to small gardens or the front of the flower border. Read more about Penstemon barbatus ‘Twizzle’
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I've grown this species from the Mexican states of Pueblo and Oaxaca for 25 years. It has got by with no watering at all these last few drought years. From a woody base metre tall stems carry red flowers with a hint of salmon, during the warmer months. Read more about Penstemon isophyllus
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A small growing Penstemon ideal for the rock garden making an evergreen shrub 30cm tall by 40cm wide. It has a profusion of orange tubular flowers for up to two months during late spring and early summer. Read more about Penstemon pinifolius
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This species is native to northern Mexico, southern Arizona and New Mexico where it grows in Ponderosa Pine forests or on rocky slopes. Best suited to a rock garden it makes 15cm tall and 30cm wide plant. The thin leaves are like pine needles hence the specific name. Read more about Penstemon pinifolius ‘Mersea Yellow’
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We grew plants of this easy to grow species from seed collected in Coconino County in Arizona (the Grand Canyon is in this county). It produces its 40cm tall, tightly packed stems of mauve-blue flowers for much of the warmer months. Read more about Penstemon virgatus subsp. virgatus
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My favourite Penstemon, with the loveliest blue-mauve white throated flowers beautifully 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. Read more about Penstemon ‘Alice Hindley’
Very different in growth habit from most Penstemon grown in Australia, P. barbatus makes basal rosettes of glossy fresh green leaves. 100cm tall spires carry from top to bottom hundreds of good- sized, scarlet-red, tubular flowers. Read more about Penstemon barbatus ‘Norgate’s Scarlet’
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Penstemons are among the most robust of garden plants showing excellent frost and drought tolerance. ‘Chester Scarlet’ is a medium sized evergreen perennial with large leaves and erect panicles of deep crimson – scarlet flowers. Flowering summer- autumn. Read more about Penstemon ‘Chester Scarlet’
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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. Read more about Penstemon ‘Sour Grapes’
The wide, fresh green pleated leaves of this east Asian grass make an evergreen rosette which produces 120cm tall arching sprays of flowers which turn to bead like seed heads. Best grown in light shade and given some extra watering during dry spells. Read more about Phaenosperma globosa
Given our fascination with the Genera it is a surprise that we have omitted to offer this plant before. The species form of Jerusalem Sage has long been grown in Australian gardens for its evergreen drought and frost hardy qualities. Read more about Phlomis fruticosa
Shoppers at the nursery will often decline the option of a yellow flowering shrub but we wouldn't be without them. We grow this in our dry garden where its silver leaves and whorls of yellow claw like flowers are handsome the year round. Read more about Phlomis grandiflora ‘Lloyds Variety’
Phlomis purpurea is one of the best silver foliage, evergreen shrubs in our garden. It is a much neater and more densely foliaged plant than other shrubby Phlomis such as P. fruticosa and when the whorls of pink hooded flowers are produced it is very handsome. Read more about Phlomis purpurea
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