This versatile plant makes 20cm rosettes of finely notched linear silver leaves. In the spring, white daisy-like flowers appear. A fine plant for the rock garden in a sunny position. more... about Achillea ageratifolia
Achillea 'Terracotta' makes self-supporting, 90cm tall stems with flat heads of peach pink flowers which quickly age to rusty mustard lemon. A hardy plant for a sunny spot. more... about Achillea ‘Terracotta’
Raised by the late Alan Bloom. Rich, dark blue, waxy flowers in good numbers on thin upright stems during January and February. It has grown and flowered well with very little water. Herbaceous. Sun. 70cm x 40cm. more... about Agapanthus campanulatus ‘Isis’
Lambley imported this variety from the USA about fifteen years ago and it has taken this long to build up enough stock to sell. Large heads of deep violet blue flowers are produced on 140cm tall stems. more... about Agapanthus ‘Ellamae’
An evergreen agapanthus with large heads of flowers on stiff 60cm tall stems. It been growing happily in our trial garden for many years where its large heads of white flowers on stiff 70cm tall stems are produced during summer. more... about Agapanthus ‘Getty White’
Agapanthus ‘Lydenberg’ came to Australia from the Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens 20 or 30 years ago. It always stirs the blood of visitors when it’s in flower in the dry garden. Tall strong stems carry pendulous light blue flowers in great abundance during mid to late summer. more... about Agapanthus inapertus hollandii ‘Lydenberg’
The smallest growing of all the Agapanthus this little treasure produces dark blue waxy flowers on 30cm tall stems. The herbaceous foliage clumps are 10cm tall. It needs more tender care than the rest of its tribe. more... about Agapanthus ‘Liliput’
We’ve used this fine New Zealand raised Agapanthus in some mass plantings in Melbourne City Council gardens and seeing well established plants flowering in the Flagstaff and Alexandra Gardens has opened our eyes to this plant’s strengths. more... about Agapanthus ‘Purple Cloud’
This is a particularly good form of Agasache cana grown from seed collected in Sierra County, New Mexico. Dark pink tubular flowers are carried on 60cm tall stiff stems from mid-summer until late autumn. more... about Agastache cana
The rare and exquisite but easily grown pure white form of this summer/autumn flowering allium. 30cm tall flower stems carry graceful loose heads of icy white flowers for two months or more. We grow it through low growing perennials in a sunny spot. more... about Allium carinatum subsp. pulchellum f. album
One of the late Marjorie Fish’s plants from her garden at Lambrook Manor. I find it to be the longest lived of all the wormwoods and we have had one plant in the double borders for nigh on 10 years and with a little judicial pruning it should be beautiful for 10 more. more... about Artemisia absinthum ‘Lambrook Silver’
The silky wormwood forms a low mound of mink-fur-soft much dissected silver leaves. We grow a patch of it at the edge of a path in our dry climate garden. more... about Artemisia pedemontana
Jacob’s Rod has a widespread distribution in the Mediterranean area from Italy to Syria. It makes beautiful evergreen clumps of fine, arching, grass-like leaves from which, during summer, 80cm tall stiff stems carry dozens of starry soft lemon flowers in a long succession . more... about Asphodeline liburnica
Asphodoline lutea makes neat evergreen tussocks of narrow fleshy blue leaves. From mid spring until mid summer stiff strong vertical stems carry a long succession of green tinged, acid yellow stars, each petal having a marked green central vein. more... about Asphodeline lutea
A southern European plant which grows in pine woods, olive groves and heavily grazed land from south west Spain to Greece. Sometimes evergreen it is generally dormant during the two hottest months. more... about Asphodelus aestivus
Aster amellus is a widespread species, growing wild from Turkey to Kazakhstan. Much more tolerant of drought than the common Easter Daisies it also flowers for a much longer. more... about Aster amellus ‘Pink Zenith’
Aster amellus 'Violet Queen' makes masses of violet flowers, each with a golden centre, which are produced during late summer and autumn. A compact plant reaching 50cm. more... about Aster amellus ‘Violet Queen’
This is the Aster x frikartii that Dennis Norgate sold for so many years and it is one of the best of all Easter daisies. It produces its large well shaped cool lavender-blue flowers from February until May. more... about Aster frikartii ‘Jung Frau’
A very small growing grass of the North American dry plains from Wisconsin to California. In full flower it is only 35cm tall making it suitable for planting in rock gardens. The red tinted flowers are held horizontally to the upright stem. more... about Bouteloua gracilis
This plant is happier in light shade where its large creamy white variegated leaves are handsome the year round. During spring a cloud of sky blue, forget-me-not flowers floats above the foliage mound. It needs some supplementary watering during summer. 50cm x50cm. more... about Brunnera macrophylla ‘Dawsons White’
Whilst this plant grows in moist peaty soil in its native South Africa it has been very happy here in our dry garden for the past decade, the clumps increasing in size and beauty each year. more... about Bulbinella nutans
I remember my late father being very taken by this when he visited Australia and planted lots of it in my brother’s Monbulk garden. more... about Bystropogon canariensis
