Lambley Nursery Perennial Catalogue

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A relatively dwarf New Zealand Rock Lily with handsome arching sword shaped leaves and produces masses of shooting star, lily-like flowers during spring and summer.

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.

The Korean feather reed grass produces purplish pink bottle brush like plumes during summer and autumn on 90cm tall stems over 1cm wide arching glossy green leaves. A native of moist Korean woodlands this grass is as happy in light shade as it is in full sun.

This charming little bell flower was raised in the English Birch Nursery, famous in its day for its alpine plants. Happy in sun or shade ‘Birch Hybrid will produce violet-blue bells for most of the warmer months. It will grow 15cm tall and a little wider across.

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.