This rare shrub, endangered in its native Korea where it now grows in a very few sites, is grown for its fragrant white flowers which are produced in late winter and early spring. The flowers are like those of the closely related Forsythia.
Dennis Norgate was growing this plant when I first met him more than forty years ago. Achillea clypeolata is worth having for foliage effect alone as its evergreen mat of intense silvery grey, feathery leaves makes it one of the most telling of any of the silvers.
When Criss and I were last in England we went to Wisley. The Achillea trials were being held in Portsmouth Field next to M25. The roar of the traffic was so awful that we nearly turned back before we got to the trials.
This Achillea was raised by the great English nurseryman Alan Bloom whom I had the privilege of meeting before he died a few years ago. To my mind it is one of, if not the best of all Achilleas as it is beautiful both in flower and in foliage.
A fine new dwarf, very dark flowered seedling of Agapanthus ‘Guilfoyle’ which was raised by Dennis Norgate who generously let me have a few plants. ‘Blue Diamond’ makes an evergreen mound of strappy leaves some 40 cm by 60cm.
'Blue Thunder' has dense heads of deep agapanthus blue flowers on 60cm tall stems. It will grow well in pots as well as in a sunny spot in the garden. 60cm x 50cm.
‘Twister’ is a new relatively small growing bicolour Agapanthus. The base of the white trumpets is mauve-blue and the flowers are held in loose but elegant heads on 60cm tall stems above low mounds of evergreen foliage. 60cm by 50cm.
Agastache ‘Blue Boa’ Agastache ‘Blue Boa’ is a newly imported multiple award winning selection from the USA. It carries large bottle brush heads of intense violet-blue flowers for months from late spring until late autumn.
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.
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A superb variety of shade loving groundcover. Its evergreen glossy dark purple almost black foliage makes a dense carpet in any shady spot which doesn’t parch during summer. Showy spikes of deep blue flowers on 25 cm tall stems are produced in spring.
This most graceful ornamental grass was given the prestigious Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society for very good reasons. Thin arching evergreen leaves turn copper, gold and orange during autumn and winter.
These new wind flowers are considered to be amongst the most outstanding perennial plants to be released this century. Raised by Scottish nurserywoman, Elizabeth McGregor, these plants stay where they are planted and don’t spread like Japanese windflowers.
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These new wind flowers are considered to be amongst the most outstanding perennial plants to be released this century. Raised by Scottish nurserywoman, Elizabeth McGregor, these plants stay where they are planted and don’t spread like Japanese windflowers.
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.
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.
An old favourite (we first listed this in our 1987 catalogue) this columbine carries large, elegant, long spurred flowers with carmine petals and white corollas nicely spaced on 60-80cm tall stems during mid to late spring and early summer.
Aquilegia ‘Denver Gold’ was selected by the Denver Botanic Gardens for its ability to produce a second crop of flowers after the first flush is finished. Large, elegant, long spurred lemon yellow flowers are produced on 60-80cm tall stems during spring and summer.
This Manzanita can be kept clipped to a metre tall, or allowed to become a 2m shrub. Producing pure white lily-of-the-valley flowers during late winter spring. Rarely offered in Australia. Drought tolerant when established and will grow happily in sun or light shade.
From the dry western areas of the USA beautiful in all its parts from the burnished copper-bronze twisted trunks to its wonderful large grey-green leaves and exquisite lily-of-the-valley flowers. Thoroughly drought tolerant when once established.
Growing a mere 15cm 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, 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.
This vigorous silver foliage plant is an important element in our double borders where we have it planted near Aster x frikartii and Salvia ‘Raspberry Royal’. A tough, sun loving shrub it soon makes a 90cm wide by 60cm tall mound.
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.
