The only Agapanthus we know which flowers throughout late spring, summer and autumn. A dwarf evergreen, white flowered variety with particularly handsome flower heads. This plant rarely produces viable seed. Read more about Agapanthus ‘Perpetual Peace’
Agastache ‘Blue Boa’ Agastache ‘Blue Boa’ is a newly imported multiple award winning selection from the USA. It carries large bottle brush heads of intense violet-blue flowers for months from late spring until late autumn. Read more about Agastache ‘Blue Boa’
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A superb variety of shade loving groundcover. Its evergreen glossy dark purple almost black foliage makes a dense carpet in any shady spot which doesn’t parch during summer. Showy spikes of deep blue flowers on 25 cm tall stems are produced in spring. Read more about Ajuga ‘Black Scallop’
This beautiful new variety with icy mauve flowers has the same growth habit and flower structure as the popular Aster ‘Ruby Buttons. Metre tall arching stems are covered with flowers through most of March and April. Read more about Aster ‘Blue Diamond’
‘Ruby Buttons’ is one of a new breed of Easter Daisy bred for the commercial cut flower trade as much as for the garden. 100cm tall stems clothed in glossy green, pointed leaves carry heads of full double ruby purple flowers in autumn. Read more about Aster ‘Ruby Buttons’
This new Buddleja variety has a succession of true pink flowers for many months from early summer until autumn. Relatively dwarf it will grow some 150cm tall by a little more across. Like all of its kin it is beloved by butterflies. Read more about Buddleja ‘Blaze Pink’
These ‘Buzz’™ series are the first truly dwarf Buddlejas to be released on the Australian market. Suited to growing in pots as well as small gardens, it took ten years of dedicated and painstaking breeding work to develop these award winning plants. Read more about Buddleja ‘Velvet Buzz’
A distinctive Japanese sedge with arching green leaves. Carex oshimensis 'Evergold' is beautiful in a pot as well as making a dense groundcover. It will grow in a difficult courtyard and small city garden if well irrigated. Read more about Carex oshimensis ‘Evergold’
I’ve grown Ceanothus ‘Blue Sapphire’ for the past ten years and it is a terrific plant, making long low gracefully arching stems covered by small very dark green, almost black glossy leaves. Read more about Ceanothus ‘Blue Sapphire’
Growing 160cm tall by as much across this Japonica produces a mass of five petalled scarlet flowers on bare stems during winter. Often used as a tough informal hedge it also makes a fine single specimen. The flowers pick well and keeping for two weeks or more in a vase. Read more about Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Winter Cheer’
‘Silver Pink’ makes a small growing rounded evergreen shrub producing a long succession of white centred pale pink flowers from late spring until well into summer. Like all of its kin ‘Silver Pink is a tough drought tolerant plant that is happy in any sunny spot. Read more about Cistus x argenteus ‘Silver Pink’
This compact evergreen shrub, clothed in sage green leaves, produces 5cm across, bright magenta-pink flowers during spring and early summer. Best grown in a well drained sunny spot where ‘Sunset’ will tolerate drought and frosts. 70cm tall by 90cm across. Read more about Cistus x pulverulentus ‘Sunset’
This is one of the best forms of Italian Pencil Pine. It is very narrow in growth and very fast growing. Plants in our new Mediterranean garden have grown 2.5 metres tall in three years and they are already making a strong architectural statement. Read more about Cupressus sempervirens ‘Glauca’
Lambley raised this grand variety about twenty years ago from seed collected from a tree growing in nearby Learmonth. The Learmonth tree is on the National Register of Significant Trees. Read more about Cupressus sempervirens ‘Lambley Steeple’
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’
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Scarlet Red flowers with orange cone. These new vegetatively propagated selections of Cone Flower are much better than cheaper seed raised varieties making sturdier, bushier and freer flowering plants. Read more about Echinacea ‘Sombrero Salsa’
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This is one of the best groundcovers for dry shade where it will make suckering 40 cm tall evergreen stems clothed in handsome blue-green foliage. During spring the whole is covered by heads of lime green flowers. Read more about Euphorbia robbiae
There are few shrubs which brighten the late winter landscape better than Forsythias. F. ‘Lynwood Gold’ covers all its branches with very large deep canary yellow flowers. A tough shrub wanting a sunny position and needing very little supplementary water. Read more about Forsythia ‘Lynwood Gold’
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
This wonderful, dense, carpeting plant was raised in the 1970s in the Cambridge University Botanic Gardens. Held well above small, rich green, ivy-like leaves the pale pink flowers some 2.5cm across are prolific during mid-spring into early summer. Read more about Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Biokovo’
I’ve grown this plant in the garden for the best part of ten years. However legal problems, which didn’t involve us, has made this poor plant impossible to sell lawfully until the last couple of years. A hybrid between G. wallichianum and G. Read more about Geranium ‘Rozanne’ PBR
This tough trailing cranesbill displays large, upward facing magenta-purple flowers on mounds of fresh green dissected foliage. Flowering for much of spring summer and autumn it will grow happily in full sun or light shade. Read more about Geranium sanguineum ‘Party Lights Purple’
With its delicious vanilla- cherry fragrance this used to be in every grandmother’s garden. Large heads of deep violet-blue flowers sit on top of lush dark green foliage from mid spring until autumn. Read more about Heliotropium arborescens ‘Scentropia Dark Blue’
