Ernst Pagels, the great German nurseryman who did much breeding work on ornamental grasses, took on Achilleas at the age of 90 with great success. The last time I was in England Pagels’ plants were the stars at the RHS Achillea trials at Wisley. Read more about Achillea ‘Walter Funke’
The only Agapanthus we know which flowers throughout late spring, summer and autumn. A dwarf evergreen, white flowered variety with particularly handsome flower heads. This plant rarely produces viable seed. Read more about Agapanthus ‘Perpetual Peace’
Ageratum houstonianum, making up to 90cm tall. Masses of true blue powder puff like flowers appear through the warmer months until the first frost. Sun and some summer watering required. Read more about Ageratum houstonianum
This, one of the best silver foliage plants, has been a mainstay of our double borders for years. It's planted next to the deep violet flowered Salvia nemorosa ‘Mainacht’. Artemisia ‘Valerie Finnis’ makes a dramatic suckering thicket of large jagged silver leaves. Read more about Artemisia ludoviciana ‘Valerie Finnis’
This beautiful new variety with icy mauve flowers has the same growth habit and flower structure as the popular Aster ‘Ruby Buttons. Metre tall arching stems are covered with flowers through most of March and April. Read more about Aster ‘Blue Diamond’
A plant of mostly dry ground in the eastern parts of the USA, this species does well for us. Aster ‘Calliope’ was raised in the 1890s at the RHS gardens and is more elegant in flower than most Easter daisies. Read more about Aster laevis ‘Calliope’
‘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’
This new Buddleja variety has a succession of true pink flowers for many months from early summer until autumn. Relatively dwarf it will grow some 150cm tall by a little more across. Like all of its kin it is beloved by butterflies. Read more about Buddleja ‘Blaze Pink’
This is a really good trailing groundcover for a shady spot in the garden where for many spring and summer months it will cover itself with upward facing white eyed, lavender-blue flowers. Evergreen and very tough needing only the occasional watering when once established. Read more about Campanula poscharskiana ‘EK Toogood’
This is the pure white flowered form of the beautiful winter flowering shrub. Growing 150cm tall by as much across it produces a mass of five petalled flowers along bare black stems during late winter and early spring. Read more about Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Nivalis’
‘Silver Pink’ makes a small growing rounded evergreen shrub producing a long succession of white centred pale pink flowers from late spring until well into summer. Like all of its kin ‘Silver Pink is a tough drought tolerant plant that is happy in any sunny spot. Read more about Cistus x argenteus ‘Silver Pink’
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’
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’
Lambley raised this grand variety about twenty years ago from seed collected from a tree growing in nearby Learmonth. The Learmonth tree is on the National Register of Significant Trees. Read more about Cupressus sempervirens ‘Lambley Steeple’
This superb plant, which is rarely grown nowadays, is a hybrid between the evergreen D, cneorum and the deciduous D. caucasica. Read more about Daphne x burkwoodii
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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’
‘Black Pearl' makes good clumps of glossy, dark almost black foliage with a pearl like lustre. The effect is enhanced by the appearance of contrasting cream flowers on 45cm tall stems during late spring and summer. ‘Black Pearl has good vigour. Read more about Heuchera ‘Black Pearl’
Frothy masses of white flowers are held over startlingly beautiful foliage mounds. Leaves are reddish brown with a lime green edge that darkens in the colder weather. Read more about Heucherella ‘Solar Eclipse’
A hybrid between the closely related genera Heuchera and Tiarella Heucherella ‘Tapestry’ is the recipient of the prestigious Award of Garden Merit of the Royal Horticultural Society. It forms a luxuriant mound of “sage green, brown and chestnut leaves”. Read more about Heucherella ‘Tapestry’
This beautiful form of Ragged Robin has been a revelation in our garden. The species is a wildflower of the English hedgerows as well as being native to most of northern Europe and parts of Asia. Read more about Lychnis flos-cuculi ‘Jenny’
All of our plants are offered in a 10cm diameter pot unless otherwise indicated. Plants grown here are frost hardy to at least minus 5C unless stated otherwise. Many are hardy to much colder temperatures. They may be evergreen or deciduous, or herbaceous and overwintered by being cut back to near pot level.Read more about Standard Pot Size
Almost identical in its grey leaves and ethereal mauve flowers to Nepeta ‘Six Hills Giant’ but the habit of this plant makes it so different and so desirable and is heavily favoured by landscapers. It is very neat, upright and tidy in growth not at all lax. Read more about Nepeta ‘Dropmore’
Walkers Low catmint has been growing in our double borders for a dozen years or so. Stiff upright stems, clothed in greyish leaves, carry spikes of lavender-blue flowers of a similar colour to N. Read more about Nepeta racemosa ‘Walkers Low’
This is the catmint featured in the English coffee table gardening books. Sadly a second rate plant is still being sold as this in Australia. We grow it in front of a stone wall in a bed that is never watered. Read more about Nepeta ‘Six Hills Giant’
Pelargonium reniforme is one of an interesting and beautiful group of frost hardy South African Pelargoniums. It’s been growing in our dry garden for three years and has performed so well we have planted another large patch by the side of a gravel path. Read more about Pelargonium reniforme
