This Gold Medal winning groundcover makes dense mats of cream and purple leaves with glowing pink edges. During spring and again in autumn spikes of royal blue flowers are produced in profusion. ‘Princess Nadia’ grows best in a moist spot in sun or light shade. Read more about Ajuga tenorii ‘Princess Nadia’
It’s a long time since we sold this Anthemis which came to Lambley from Cruden Farm more than 20 years ago. The evergreen mounds of mossy green fernlike leaves, much cut and divided, are smothered in warm soft lemon daisies from mid spring until mid summer. Read more about Anthemis ‘Mrs E. C. Buxton’
One of the best evergreen plants for shade, even dry shade, this is a superb clone with wider, longer, waxier and more arching leaves than the type. Masses of white shooting star, lily like flowers are produced in spring and summer. Read more about Arthropodium cirrhatum ‘Matapouri Bay’
Hailing as it does from the Central Asian Altai Mountains, Siberia, Mongolia and China B. crassifolia is a tough ground cover for sun or shade. Read more about Bergenia crassifolia
‘Winter Glow’ is an improvement on older strains of B. cordifolia with clumps of large glossy evergreen leathery leaves which take on impressive reddish bronze tones during cold weather. Relatively tall stems of reddish pink flowers are produced during spring. Read more about Bergenia cordifolia ‘Winter Glow’
Brachyglottis ‘Sunshine’ B. ‘Sunshine’ is one of the most handsome evergreen shrubs for the dry garden. It makes a 90cm by 120cm neat mound clothed with large leathery grey foliage and during late spring and early summer carries multiple heads of lovely lemon yellow daisies. Read more about Brachyglottis ‘Sunshine’
David S. Stuart in his monograph on the genus wrote that ‘Lochinch’ was one of his favourite varieties. This hybrid popped up in the garden of the Earl of Stair at Lochinch in Wigtownshire, Scotland during the Second World War. Read more about Buddleja ‘Lochinch’
Endemic to upper Burma and western China, including Tibet, Buddleja myriantha is deciduous with felted grey green leaves and carrying its deep mauve, fragrant flowers on upright spikes above the foliage. A superb new introduction in our Mediteranean Garden. 200cm x 150cm. Read more about Buddleja myriantha
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. A frost hardy, drought tolerant evergreen shrub which from early summer until late autumn turns itself into cumulus clouds of soft grey flowers. Read more about Bystropogon canariensis
Compact deciduous shrub which is grown for its clusters of winter berries which are like deep violet-purple pearls. A very showy plant for winter decoration both in the house and in the garden. Read more about Callicarpa bodinieri var. giraldii ‘Profusion’
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’
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
Famously the leaves of this plant are the source of Labdanum Essential Oil which has a warm sweet, musky, amber scent. Large white flowers with purple brush strokes at the centre are produced on an evergreen shrub well clothed in dark green sticky leaves. Read more about Cistus ladanifer
Named “sweet” because of its wonderful honey fragrance. We grow it on a trellis in our double borders where, although cut back to 60cm during winter, it covers an area about 2 metres in height and 4-5 metres in width. Read more about Clematis maximowicziana
Corydalis reflexa was so rare that the gardens had it under lock and key in a no go area when I visited the Edinburg Botanica gardens 40 years ago. I was one of the first Australians to see a blue Corydalis. Read more about Corydalis ‘Blue Line’
The exquisite flowers, carried above bronze foliage like a shoal of aqua-blue sea horses, are in bloom throughout spring with a second flush during late summer and autumn. Happy in any moist well drained spot in light to medium shade it also makes a god pot plant. Read more about Corydalis ‘Porcelain Blue’
This upright conifer makes an excellent evergreen specimen tree as well as a useful untrimmed wind break or timber tree. C. torulosa is resistant to cypress canker. Read more about Cupressus torulosa
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’
One of the showiest of all spring flowering shrubs the Warminster Broom was given the coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit as long ago as 1933. It first cropped up in an English garden in 1867. Read more about Cytisus x praecox ‘Warminster’
This is a most beautiful and graceful late spring flowering deciduous shrub bearing large pom poms of soft pink flowers. It is happy in any sunny or lightly shaded spot which doesn’t parch in summer. 160cm x 150cm.
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 inland areas. Read more about New Armeria (Sea Thrift) Varieties
‘Daydream’ carries white 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 ‘Dream Clouds’
‘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’
‘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’
‘Dream Weaver’ carries its large mulberry-purple 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 ‘Dream Weaver’
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’
An easily grown plant which will soon fill a good sized space in the shade, even dry shade when once established. Soft lemon yellow flowers are held well above the foliage in early spring. When established E. x versicolor is tolerant of some dryness.30cm by 30cm. Read more about Epimedium x versicolor ‘Sulphureum’
