Lambley Nursery Perennial Catalogue

A native of the Ouachita Mountains in central Arkansas Amsonia hubrichtii is grown as much for its brilliant gold autumn foliage as for its clusters of powder blue star flowers which are produced during spring on top of stems clothed in feathery, soft, needle like leaves.

Growing a mere 2cm tall but spreading up to 150cm, ‘Green Bay’ makes a dense carpet of small dark green leathery leaves. Nodding pink, lily-of-the-valley flowers are produced in late winter and early spring when the shrub has matured.

This beautiful carpeting plant was grown by us from seed collected in the windswept dry mountains of Turkey. This wormwood forms a glistening mat of intricately cut silver foliage.

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.

Collected in Crete this form is a very neat and tidy Ballota unlike its taller sprawlier relatives. It makes a rounded evergreen shrub clothed from top to bottom with round, thickly felted grey leaves. The removal of spent flower stems is all the care required.

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.

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.

This late summer/autumn flowering shrub has thrived in a tough spot for years but some summer watering is always well-rewarded. As the marvellous rich dark blue flowers are produced on new seasons wood it’s best to cut Caryopteris to near ground level during winter.