There can hardly be a better carpeting plant than this north African ground cover. Convolvulus ‘L.A. Form’ is a favourite of ours featuring an especially large flowered variety imported from California where it is widely grown for its superior qualities. Read more about Convolvulus sabatius ‘L.A. Form’
‘Heliot’ is a Fleuroselect gold medal winner. This medal is only awarded to plants which are considered outstanding. This selection of the widespread North American perennial produces rich golden flowers with a central crimson for much of late spring, summer and autumn. Read more about Coreopsis grandiflora ‘Heliot’
Corydalis ‘Blue Line’ is a hybrid between C. flexuosa and C. elata and is more vigorous than either of its parents. It flowers here at Lambley in light shade from October until March. Read more about Corydalis ‘Blue Line’
Cotoneaster dammeri is one of the best of all evergreen ground covers. It makes a mat of small, dark green, leathery leaves and its prostrate stems root where they touch the soil. Its flowers are fragrant and during autumn and winter it produces showy bright red berries. Read more about Cotoneaster dammeri
This marvellous Cyclamen, endemic to the hills and mountains near the Turkish Black Sea coast, is one of the joys of winter when it gives forth an almost endless succession of flowers ranging from light to dark pink. Read more about Cyclamen coum
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The easiest of all the genus to grow in the garden, this native of southern Europe and western Turkey will naturalise in the garden. Our well-established bulbs are three years old. Best planted in some light shade under deciduous trees and shrubs. Read more about Cyclamen hederifolium
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Daphne cneorum ‘Leila Haines’ is one of the most beautiful small shrubs we have grown at Lambley. It has made a very compact plant some 10cm high by 35cm across in the five years we have grown it. Read more about Daphne cneorum ‘Leila Haines’
A couple of years ago the gardening world in the UK, Europe and America was bewitched by these new plants, the result of some brilliant hybridising by the venerable old English company Thompson and Morgan. Cross pollinating frost hardy Foxgloves with the rather tender Canary Island Isoplexis canariensis resulted in these incredibly long flowering, easily grown border plants.
This breakthrough hybrid carries tall stems of large, densely packed flowers in rich and unique colours. They will flower longer than each of their parents and are happy in any sunny or lightly shaded spot which doesn’t parch during summer.
Digiplexis have done very well here at Lambley in a north facing border, although they would be just as happy in a little light shade. Whilst needing regular summer watering, they are tough and, in our experience, problem-free. They are frost-hardy in most if not all Australian gardens. Last year in our own garden they were in flower from late spring until mid-autumn. Read more about Digiplexis
This breakthrough cross between Isoplexis and Digitalis carries large pink trumpets, each with a cream throat speckled with burgundy, on strong, densely packed 90cm-tall stems. Read more about Digiplexis ‘Berry Canary’
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This breakthrough cross between Isoplexis and Digitalis carries large tubular flowers of brilliant apricot-gold on 50cm tall stems from tight foliage mounds of grey green leaves from mid-spring until autumn. Read more about Digiplexis ‘Firecracker’
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This breakthrough cross between Isoplexis and Digitalis carries 90cm tall spikes of flaming orange flowers with rich orange and magenta speckled throats over rosettes of broad dark green leaves. Read more about Digiplexis ‘Falcon Fire’
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This exciting new hybrid Foxglove makes a gorgeous display of outward facing raspberry red trumpets with a peach centre on 60cm tall flower spikes. Read more about Digiplexis ‘Ruby Glow’
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Digiplexis ‘Raspberry’ carries purplish raspberry red flowers with a pale speckled throat on impressive 90cm tall stems. Digiplexis have done very well here at Lambley in a north facing border although they would be just as happy in a little light shade. Read more about Digiplexis ‘Illumination Raspberry’
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‘Flame’ is almost tropical looking. “Spikes flaming magenta pink with rich cantaloupe orange magenta speckled throats” are borne all the way around 90cm tall stems set over dark rosettes of broad darker green leaves. Read more about Digiplexis ‘Illumination Flame’
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When grown well, the Rusty Foxglove can grow up to 180cm tall, though usually it will make 90-150cm. It is best to plant this foxglove during late summer or early autumn so that it can produce strong flower spikes the following spring. Read more about Digitalis ferruginea ‘Gelber Herold’
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This hybrid between the yellow flowered perennial D. grandiflora and the common purple flowered foxglove D. purpurea carries pendulous warm raspberry-pink bell-shaped flowers during spring and summer. Read more about Digitalis x mertonensis ‘Summer King’
Native to the mountains of Spain and Morocco D. obscura, unlike all other species of foxgloves, is an evergreen shrub. Clothed with glossy light green, willow like leaves it produces many upright stems of beautiful dangling bells in shades of primrose, rusty orange and red. Read more about Digitalis obscura
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Digitalis parviflora is an endemic of woodland hillsides in northern and central Spain. During spring and early summer it sends up 60cm tall spires densely packed with narrow milk chocolate coloured flowers from basal rosettes of dark green leaves. Read more about Digitalis parviflora ‘Milk Chocolate’
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This perennial from southeast Europe and nearby Turkey is a plant of moist hillsides and woodlands. When happy, as it was in the late Zoe Minotti’s Geelong garden, it is one of the most refined of all daisies. Read more about Doronicum orientale ‘Magnificum’
Veitch’s Globe Flower is one of the stars of our dry garden. Its bold, dark green divided foliage and stiff stems topped by dark blue drumstick flowers cause quite a stir when in full glory. Read more about Echinops ritro ‘Veitchs Blue’
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Most Echiums don’t flower well here at Lambley because of our regular heavy frosts. We got this frost hardy form of Echium virescens a decade or more ago and our original plant is still alive and flowering well. It makes a large shrub to near 2 metres by 2 metres . Read more about Echium virescens
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‘Silver Queen’ has large white flowers with silver-lavender highlights on the inner petals. The new crimson-mahogany foliage of this cultivar is particularly impressive and makes a perfect foil for the flowers. ‘Silver Queen’ will grow 30cm tall by 50cm across. Read more about Epimedium grandiflorum ‘Silver Queen’
Like so many Epimedium species, the fairly newly discovered Sichuan Fairy Wings is a native of China growing wild in the mountains of Shaanxi and northwest Hubei province. Read more about Epimedium sutchuenense
This easily grown plant will soon make a good-sized patch in any shaded spot, even dry shade. Multiple stems of soft lemon-yellow flowers bloom from late winter until midspring. Read more about Epimedium x versicolor ‘Sulphureum’
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This charming evergreen ground cover was raised by David Kennedy at his Clover Hill Rare Plants Nursery, carries deep pink and lemon flowers during late winter and spring. ‘Mardi Gras’ will grow 30cm tall by 50cm across. Read more about Epimedium x youngianum ‘Mardi Gras’
This relatively new release is as tough as it is beautiful. ‘Wayne Roderick’ will produce large, nicely formed, amethyst-lilac daisies above dense rosettes of ground covering evergreen foliage for month on month from late winter into summer. Read more about Erigeron glaucus ‘Wayne Roderick’
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This Seaside Daisy has much larger and deeper pink flowers than the typical plant. It also has the advantage of being sterile and so never produces viable seed. Read more about Erigeron karvinskianus ‘L.A. Form’
This very old hybrid has flourished in Australian gardens for nigh on a hundred years. It reliably makes vigorous clumps of spoon-shaped, grey-green leaved clumps from which 50cm tall stems carry perfectly form soft lilac daisies. The flower buds nod in a charming manner. Read more about Erigeron ‘Quakeress’
Much asked about, this has been growing in our dry climate garden for twenty years or more. The flowers, a metallic blue thimble, are circled by a metallic blue ruff as intricate as a snowflake. It makes an interesting cut flower. Read more about Eryngium bourgatii ‘Oxford Blue’