A charming and floriferous little plant for the rock garden with waxy blue foliage and large clear pink flowers for many months during spring and early summer. It has proved to be tough and drought tolerant, flourishing in a hot sunny spot in the garden at Lambley. Read more about Aethionema grandiflora
This new strain of Bergenia carries large heads of pendent magenta bells during spring. The evergreen foliage clumps are particularly handsome with large glossy green leaves which turn bronze during the cooler months in those gardens lucky enough to have cold winters. Read more about Bergenia cordifolia ‘Shoeshine Rose’
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 pleasure it gave. Read more about Buddleja alternifolia ‘Argentea’
This is one of my favourite Camellias. Whilst most plants in the modern nursery trade have been selected for their dwarf growth habits ‘Margaret Waterhouse’ will grow five metres or more tall. Raised in Sydney by the late Professor E. G. Read more about Camellia x williamsii ‘Margaret Waterhouse’
An attractive small shrub to 80cm with lacy heads of powder-blue flowers on top of large leathery green, red edged leaves. Tolerant of drought once established. Flowering from mid -summer into autumn when its leaves turn red and orange. 80 cm x 80 cm. Sun or light shade. Read more about Ceratostigma ‘Summer Skies’
The growth habit of this New Zealand native shrub has given it its common name of wire netting bush. When young the branches are covered in grey bloom but turn mahogany brown as they age. These branches zigzag in all directions earning its name of Wire Netting Bush. Read more about Corokia cotoneaster
Native to Japan and China Deutzia scabra makes a 2 metre tall shrub clothed in handsome foliage. ‘Candidissima’, grown in western gardens since the 1869s carries large clusters of honey scented double white flowers on arching branches during late spring and early summer. Read more about Deutzia scabra ‘Candidissima’
Bright orange double pom-pom flowers with age have deep rose tints. Vigorous plants produce these stunning flowers for many months from early summer until autumn as long as spent flowers are dead headed. Best grown in full sun. Read more about Echinacea ‘Double Scoop Mandarin’
One of the toughest of the much admired Bishops Hats with evergreen plant for shade, even quite dry shade. Its many stems carry aquilegia like bright yellow flowers. Read more about Epimedium × perralchicum ‘Frohnleiten’
There can’t be a finer berried shrub than this when it’s in full autumn glory. Masses of deep pink, almost red berries, make such a spectacular display that visitors to the garden invariably rave about it. Read more about Euonymus europeus ‘Red Cascade’
This new Lambley bred Euphorbia has a neat dwarf habit with abundant lime green flower heads opening from reddish buds. It will be happy in any sunny or lightly shaded spot. Drought tolerant when once established. 30cm tall by as much across. Read more about Euphorbia x martinii ‘Ascot Liliput’ PBR
This Lambley introduction is one of the finest variegated Euphorbias available throughout Europe and the United States. Very different in effect from E. ‘Tassie Tiger’, E. ‘Ascot Rainbow’, has soft gold and blue-green leaves with red and pink tonings during cold weather. Read more about Euphorbia x martinii ‘Ascot Rainbow’ PBR
One of our best plants for shade, even dry shade when established. Francoa ramosa is the longest flowered of all the bridal wreaths. Long wands densely packed with showy white flowers are produced during summer and autumn over low mounds of evergreen foliage. Read more about Francoa ramosa
NEW A fabulous foliage plant for a shady spot even relatively dry shade or sunny when once established although it is native to the mountains of southern Mexico where it does get regular rainfall. Read more about Furcraea quicheensis
A small growing grass long associated with the aesthetic of Japanese gardens. Ideal for a shady spot, which gets morning sun and isn’t allowed to dry out, or for planting in a pot in light shade. It makes a graceful plant with fine arching golden-yellow leaves. Read more about Hakonechloa macra ‘All Gold’
Many plants tolerate shade but may not flower freely in that position. Heucheras have such dynamic and interesting foliage that they make up for the lack of flowers with their extraordinarily diverse colours and textures. Recent breeding work has brought some startling new cultivars to the fore. Read more about HEUCHERAS
To my mind this is the best of the Coral Bells, grown mostly for its beautiful dark amethyst purple silver sheened evergreen foliage, it never-the-less has charming flowers, a myriad tiny white bells dangling gracefully and glossy purple stems. Read more about Heuchera ‘Amethyst Mist’
A strong grower that makes a mound of large, glossy, heavily ruffled, almost-black leaves. Grow in filtered sun in warmer regions however it will tolerate some shade. 25 cm(H) x 35 cm(W). Read more about Heuchera ‘Black Taffeta’
A new one for us, this Heuchera features a very distinctive and captivating colour with dark rose petals speckled with lighter pink spots. Read more about Heuchera ‘Midnight Rose’
This brilliant French bred Hydrangea has the reddest of all Hydrangea paniculata varieties. During early summer it unfurls very large heads of white flowers. These flowers gradually turn pink and as summer moves into autumn a spectacular purple shaded red. Read more about Hydrangea paniculata ‘Red Diamond’
Another variety from Kyoto, ‘Romance’ has deep mauve blue or deep pink flowers depending on soil acidity. ‘Romance’ will flower from mid-spring until late summer. It is dwarf in growth habit making it suitable for small gardens and pots. Best in light shade. Read more about PBR Hydrangea ‘Romance’ You & Me Series
Fragrant semi-double primrose yellow flowers are carried during spring well into summer on an arching, weeping shrub evergreen shrub. This native of western China was widely grown in Australian gardens 50-60 years ago. Read more about Jasminum mesnyi
Beautiful under old roses and in our dry garden, Marrubium ‘Scallop Shell’ is one of the best evergreen ground covers for hot dry spots forming a dense mat of scalloped soft grey leaves, the texture of velvet. Read more about Marrubium supinum ‘Scallop Shell’
To quote G.S. Thomas in his seminal book Perennial Garden Plants: ‘Bowles Golden Grass’ is a famous form of a British native; it is spectacular in the spring, when it is ideal for picking with bunches of early flowers. Read more about Millium effusum ‘Aureum’
This rarely offered dwarfing cultivar makes a 60cm tall tussock of narrow arching leaves and during summer 100cm tall flowering stems produce coppery gold feathers. Good reddish foliage in autumn. 100cm x 80cm. Read more about Miscanthus sinensis ‘Yaku Jima’
All of our plants are offered in a 10cm diameter pot unless otherwise indicated. Plants grown here are frost hardy to at least minus 5C unless stated otherwise. Many are hardy to much colder temperatures. They may be evergreen or deciduous, or herbaceous and overwintered by being cut back to near pot level.Read more about Standard Pot Size
