Agapanthus ‘Lydenberg’ came to Australia from the Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens 20 or 30 years ago. It always stirs the blood of visitors when it’s in flower in the dry garden. Tall strong stems carry pendulous light blue flowers in great abundance during mid to late summer. Read more about Agapanthus inapertus hollandii ‘Lydenberg’
This fine Dutch raised plant is a hybrid between the Korean Agastache rugosa and the American Agastache foeniculum. Widely used by contemporary garden designers this hybrid has been a revelation in Australian gardens. Read more about Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’
A handsome new Agastache variety. ‘Raspberry Fiesta’ carries large heads of raspberry red flowers on 80cm tall sturdy stems from late spring until autumn. Best in a sunny well drained spot. Read more about Agastache ‘Raspberry Fiesta’
In his fine book “Guide To Plants” Paul Bangay writes that “I use this in all my gardens as it is such a long-flowering plant and has a very distinct and unusual flower colour”. ”Sweet Lili” was raised here at Lambley and is one of the best plants we grow. Read more about Agastache ‘Sweet Lili’
A choice climbing plant for a shaded spot where it will soon cover unsightly walls or fences. The Porcelain Berry has grape-like leaves delicately splashed with white and pink. The small flowers are followed by pinkish-purple berries which later turn blue. Read more about Ampelopsis brevipedunculata ‘Elegans’
NEW RELEASE ‘Blaze’ is mostly grown for its intense red autumn foliage but it is attractive from spring well into winter as the leaves are blue in spring ageing to grey green in summer and retaining some of its autumn splendour into winter. Read more about Andropogon scoparius ‘Blaze’
One of the loveliest of all the flowers in our garden. Metre tall stems are topped by glistening pure white flowers from late summer until well into the autumn. Best planted with shrubs as it does have a suckering habit. Cut back to ground after flowering. 100cm x 70cm. Read more about Anemone x hybrida ‘Honorine Jobert’
This plant, a hybrid between Anthemis tinctoria and the grey leaved spring flowered A. cupaniana, combines the good points of each. Flattish mounds of greyish fern like leaves are covered in the loveliest creamy lemon daisies for months on end from mid-spring to autumn. Read more about Anthemis ‘Susannah Mitchell’
One of the best evergreen silver foliage plants making low mounds of intricately cut intensely silver leaves. It makes a wonderful foil when planted in front and under roses as Susan Irvine did in her Gisborne garden. Read more about Artemisia canescens
Aster ‘Lady in Black’ was raised by Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf. It is a dramatic plant with black leaves clothing stiff upright 80cm tall stiff stems. Read more about Aster lateriflorus ‘Lady in Black’
‘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’
A newly imported dwarf growing variety, with quite narrow glossy evergreen leaves which turn rich plum during cold weather. The flower heads are large in relation to the foliage clumps and the flowers are bright coral pink. Read more about Bergenia ‘Dragonfly Sakura’
‘Flirt’ is an extraordinarily free flowering Bergenia sporting up to 30 25cm tall flower spikes on one year old plants. ‘Flirt’ is compact growing with upright glossy green leaves which turn crimson during cold weather and deep pink flowers. Read more about Bergenia ‘Flirt’
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’
A really good foliage and flowering plant for shade. Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’ has silver, heart shaped basal leaves which are hidden during spring and early summer by clouds of true blue for-get-me-not flowers held well above the foliage on thin wiry stems. Read more about Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’
This superb new small growing violet-black flowered Buddleja is part of the venerable English company, Thompson and Morgan's cutting edge breeding program. Read more about Buddleja ‘Buzz™ Midnight’
The clearest pink flowered of all the Buddlejas. Very large trusses over a long season and handsome grey leaves. One of our favourites and a mainstay in our double borders where we cut it down to 80cm each winter. 200cm x 180cm. Sun loving and drought tolerant.
Bred for its smaller size and long pendant flowers, the bee and butterfly attracting flowers are produced from November through to April as long as spent flowers are removed.Suited to growing in pots as well as small gardens. Read more about Buddleja davidii ‘Wisteria Lane ’ PBR
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 ‘Hot Raspberry Buzz’ TM
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 'Evergreen' 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 ‘Evergreen’
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
Genuinely rare and difficult to obtain in this country, this tough, frost hardy and drought tolerant new form of Tibetan Plumbago has pure white flowers on a tidier bush. Read more about Ceratostigma willmotiana ‘Alba’
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
