Raised by one (perhaps the only one) of my horticultural heroes, the late Alan Bloom, Achillea ‘Anthea’ is a seriously good plant. From a tidy clump of greyish leaves, stiff upright leafy stems carry flat heads of soft yellow flowers. Read more about Achillea ‘Anthea’
The best of the yellow flowered yarrows first sold during the year of the Queen’s coronation. It makes well behaved evergreen mounds of feathery grey leaves. Read more about Achillea ‘Coronation Gold’
When Criss and I were last in England we went to Wisley. The Achillea trials were being held in Portsmouth Field next to M25. The roar of the traffic was so awful that we nearly turned back before we got to the trials. Read more about Achillea ‘Credo’
Ten years ago Lorraine and Max Cross, of Edith Creek, Tasmania, generously sent Lambley a few plants of this Agapanthus. It is far and away the best of its kind. It packs a countless number of individual flowers in a dense perfectly spherical head. Read more about Agapanthus ‘Snowfire’
It is the size of this windflower combined with its pure white semi-double flowers which makes it oh so desirable. Making only 40-50cm in height and perhaps a third that in width this is ideal for smaller gardens with low-light positions needing a lift. Read more about Anemone x hybrida ‘Snow Angel’
Happy in any sunny or lightly shaded spot, Cape Mallow is a very drought and cold tolerant shrub which performs spectacularly in Australian conditions. 'Merimbe' is a brand new cultivar by the team at PGA Innova Bred and features vivid mid-pink flowers that last and last. Read more about Anisodontea ‘African Rose Merimbe’ PBR
A superb new shrub by the team at PGA Innova Bred with large bicoloured bright-pink long-lasting flowers. Anisodontea are fast-growing for speedy impact in difficult spots. Cape Mallows attract butterflies and provide bee fodder throughout the year, including deepest winter. Read more about Anisodontea ‘Dayo African Rose ’ PBR
It’s more than thirty years since Lambley was given this beautiful plant by the late Dame Elisabeth Murdoch who had it growing in her marvelous Cruden Farm garden. Read more about Anthemis ‘Mrs E. C. Buxton’
With larger flowers than other varieties this new cultivar forms a compact mound of blue-green foliage. Armeria are exceptionally long flowering perennials topped with masses of globe shaped flowers for much of the year. Read more about Armeria ‘Big Dreams’
The new Axcent series of these splendid cascading plants have particularly large intensely coloured flowers. Evergreen and growing some 10cm tall by 60cm across it is completely smothered in rich deep purple flowers during spring with sporadic flowers later in the season. Read more about Aubrieta ‘Axcent Deep Purple’
One of the wonders of the hardy plant world, drought tolerant and totally handsome, Beschorneria yuccoides makes a 100cm tall rosette of pewter-grey Yucca like foliage, soft to the touch and not at all spiny. Read more about Beschorneria yuccoides
This evergreen grass provides year-round impact with its boldly variegated leaves which are perfect for edging and mass planting or in a pot as a feature. Read more about Carex ‘Feather Falls’ PBR
We grow a lot of clematis here at Lambley and it’s hard to imagine the garden without them. They are deeply frost hardy, with much interesting breeding work done in Central and Northern Europe. Don’t be tempted in the summer when you see Clematis flowering in the big hardware stores as they really are best planted from now in their dormancy. They aren’t difficult to grow once the cultural differences of each type are understood. Mind you, all need a good depth of soil to be happy and a good dusting of lime helps if like us your soil is acid. Clematis prefer a sunny or lightly shaded spot in the garden and are not bothered by frosts in the least. Most varieties need some extra summer irrigation. Our Clematis are very competitively priced and available only while stocks last.
‘Arabella’ is a nonclimbing, scrambling clematis which will produce its deep mauve blue ageing to pale blue 3.5cm wide flowers from late spring until autumn. Read more about Clematis ‘Arabella’
This vigorous grower produces nodding cream bell-like flowers with claret inside approximately 4-5cm in diameter. A vigorous vine growing to 6mt in size. Flowers from late winter to spring. Pruning group 1. Evergreen and a climber. Read more about Clematis cirrhosa ‘Lansdowne Gem’
This was bred by the late Kazushige Ozawa to be picked as a single flower for the traditional Japanese tea ceremony. As well as being a terrific cut flower it makes a great garden plant. Read more about Clematis integrifolia ‘Rooguchi’
‘Broughton Star’ makes a mass display of double soft amethyst pink flowers during spring. Being a form of the very vigorous C. montana it will soon cover a trellis, fence or wall. Read more about Clematis montana ‘Broughton Star’
One of the best of the montana group Clematis ‘Elizabeth’ is an RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. “Slightly scented pale pink flowers with a satin sheen to 6cm in width have pale yellow stamens.” It grows into a vigorous vine and flowers mid spring here at Lambley. Read more about Clematis montana ‘Elizabeth’
Abundant and fragrant rich pink flowers are produced in abundance during mid-to-late spring. These montana Clematis need regular watering during hotter and drier periods as they don’t want to dry out at the root but are otherwise vigorous and low-maintenance. Read more about Clematis montana ‘Rubens’
Charming fragrant double white flowers are produced in abundance during spring. These Clematis need regular watering during hotter and drier periods as they don’t want to dry out at the root. Read more about Clematis montana ‘Starlight’
We’ve had this growing on a fence for some years now and appreciate it more and more. It produces its deep rich lemon waxy flowers from early summer until autumn. Each flower gives way to a showy silver haired seed head. Read more about Clematis tangutica ‘Golden Tiara’
Mid pink flowers approximately 5-8cm in diameter produced on a vigorous vine growing to 2.5-3.6mt in size. Flowers late spring to autumn. Pruning group 3. deciduous and a climber. Read more about Clematis texensis ‘Duchess of Albany’
Luminous pink flowers approximately 6cm in diameter produced on a slow vine growing to 1.8-2.4mt in size. Flowers late spring to autumn. Pruning group 3. deciduous and a climber. Read more about Clematis texensis ‘Princess Diana’
An interesting but very different cultivar producing white flowers with green tips approximately 2.5-3.5cm in diameter. Viticella alba luxurians can be grown as a specimen plant on a large obelisk or other free standing structure. Read more about Clematis viticella ‘alba luxurians’
Small 5 cm red floweres with a boss of pale pink staminodes are produced on a vigorous free flowering vine to 2.5 - 3.0 metres. Flowers early summer into autumn.
A timeless beauty with dark shell pink flowers to 15cm diameter with contrasting yellow stamens. The crinkled petals with curling edges have a beautiful antique quality. Free flowering and vigorous in growth, it will make 2.5 to 3 metres in height. Read more about Clematis x jackmanii ‘Comtesse de Bouchard’
The large pale mauve-blue flowers edged in deeper mauve and have cream anthers. Blooms are freely produced from December until April on a vigorous plant which can in the right spot grow 4 metres into a tree although generally it will only make 2-3 metres. Read more about Clematis x jackmanii ‘Dominika’
A beautiful compact variety producing plentiful flowers of mauve blue with a pink base 12-15cm in diameter.. Quite vigorous and will grow 1.8 to 2.4 meter in size. General Sikorski can be grown with climbing roses or through medium sized trees for effect. Read more about Clematis x jackmanii ‘General Sikorski’
Beautiful white flowers are displayed in abundance amongst the dark green leaves on this vigorous climber. Great for planting with climbing roses or through medium sized trees and shrubs.
This was raised by the French nurseryman, Morel, before the World War I and is surely one of the most elegant of all Clematis. I grow it on a trellis which hides an outside dunny. Clematis ‘Huldine’ flowers for months and months from spring until autumn. Read more about Clematis x jackmanii ‘Huldine’
‘John Paul’ is a delicious hybrid from the Polish monk and clematis breeder, Brother Stefan Francsak. The large flowers open blush pink with a deeper pink bar through the middle of each petal. As it ages the flower fades to a soft creamy blush. Read more about Clematis x jackmanii ‘John Paul II’
‘Multi Blue’ has deep blue flowers with a startling double silver blue anemone centre. Quite vigorous for a double variety it will flowers for two months from late spring and then if cut back to 30cm will bloom again during late summer and autumn. 200cm by 150cm.
Easy to grow in moist well-drained soil in full sun though it will tolerate some shade and may prefer it in very hot climates. It flowers during November and December and if lightly pruned in early January it may repeat bloom during late summer and autumn. Read more about Clematis x jackmanii ‘The Vagabond’
Delightful reddish, mauve flowers approximately 14-16cm in diameter produced on a vigorous vine growing to 3-3.6mt in size. Flowers late spring to autumn. A deciduous climber.
Arguably the most beautiful of all the Ceanothus varieties making an evergreen shrub up to 3 metres in height and as much across. The vibrant dark blue flowers are produced from magenta buds early in spring. Read more about Ceanothus ‘Concha’
A dwarf ground covering, frost hardy deciduous perennial with large (for the genus) gentian blue flowers from spring until autumn. The oval green leaves turn flaming scarlet and crimson in late autumn and winter. Sun or light shade. Read more about Ceratostigma plumbaginoides
One of our most popular plants, this very drought tolerant evergreen shrub makes a 120cm wide evergreen mat clothed in small sage like leaves which during late spring is graced by hundreds of white, golden centred, flowers like a small single rose. Read more about Cistus salvifolia ‘Prostratus’
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’
A beautiful hybrid deciduous shrub growing just 1m high and 1m wide. Deutzia x rosea is a compact shrub that has pink-flushed flowers in early summer. Will grow in full sun to part shade. Read more about Deutzia x rosea
This stunning variety of Foxglove flowers continuously on multiple stems from spring until well into autumn. Smaller in leaf than the common foxglove and shorter in growth it has delightful rose pink flowers with deeper freckling in the throat. Read more about Digitalis purpurea ‘Panther’
The Dreamaria sea thrift varieties are the result of a ten year long breeding program by one of Australia’s leading nurseries. Lambley is proud to have been appointed the sole mail order distributer of these remarkably beautiful new plants. The Dreameria series will grow happily in both coastal as well as frosty inland gardens. Read more about New Armeria (Sea Thrift) Varieties
‘Dreamland’ carries its bright light pink drumstick flowers on stiff 30cm tall stems for many months during spring and summer. Removing spent flowers will help prolong the floral display. Best grown in sunny spot and given a fortnightly soak during dry spells. Read more about Dreameria PBR ‘Dreamland’
'Sweet Dreams' carries softer pink drumstick flowers on stiff 30cm tall stems for many months during spring and summer. Removing spent flowers will help prolong the floral display. Best grown in sunny spot and given a fortnightly soak during dry spells. Read more about Dreameria PBR ‘Sweet Dreams’
‘Daydream’ carries its large bright pink drumstick flowers on stiff 30cm tall stems for many months during spring and summer. Removing spent flowers will help prolong the floral display. Best grown in sunny spot and given a fortnightly soak during dry spells. Read more about Dreameria PBR ‘Daydream’
This is one of the best ground covers we grow as it makes handsome dense mats of evergreen leaves. Although all E. glaucus clones are low growing some have rather lax flower stems. Read more about Erigeron glaucus ‘Seabreeze’
One the most profoundly stunning spurges, this makes a neat round bush with dark red brooding black foliage. During spring is covered with lime green flowers. The contrast is very telling. Cut spent flower stems to the ground. Takes dryness in sun or light shade Read more about Euphorbia amygdaloides ‘Craigieburn’
This new Lambley bred Euphorbia has a neat dwarf habit with abundant lime green flower heads opening from reddish buds. The flower heads are in perfect proportion creating a wonderfully balanced plant that is creating excitement in European testing. Read more about Euphorbia x martinii ‘Ascot Liliput’ PBR
This Lambley introduction is one of the finest variegated Euphorbias available throughout the gardening world. It is now used in bedding throughout Europe and the United States and in New Zealand and South Africa. Read more about Euphorbia x martinii ‘Ascot Rainbow’ PBR
Bred in Holland this new series of Heuchera is the best we’ve grown at Lambley. They are all evergreen perennials with beautiful ruffled lobed leaves. Heucheras are happy growing in any lightly shaded position as long as they are given some supplementary irrigation during dry periods. Indian Summer Heucheras will make tidy clumps some 35 cm tall by as much across and are beautiful when grown in pots. Wiry stems, held well above the foliage are adorned with many small white or pinkish bells. The flowers are delightful in posies as they last well in a vase. Read more about First Release of Indian Summer Heucheras
‘Orangeberry’ is a dazzling variety with ruffled leaves a blaze of coral, tinged with red and gold. The flowers have a pink blush. Read more about Heuchera ‘Orangeberry’
‘Blackberry’ is an impressive variety with somewhat smaller leaves than others in the Indian Summer series but the leaves are a remarkable glossy black. The flowers are white. Read more about Heuchera ‘Blackberry’
