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
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. Read more about Abeliophyllum distichum
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Smaller growing than the ubiquitous Acanthus mollis and a much more useful and useable plant with deeply divided leaves, dark green and glossy, making a telling mound. Read more about Acanthus spinosus ‘Beth Chatto’s Form’
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This very useful small growing Acanthus whose origins are not known with any certainty makes a compact foliage mound some 35cm by 40cm. From clumps of mid-green, thickly textured leaves strong 50cm tall stems of purple bronze flowers are produced in spring. Read more about Acanthus ‘Tupelo Grove’
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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. Read more about Achillea ‘Coronation Gold’
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When Criss and I were on a pre-Covid trip to England we went to the RHS gardens at Wisley. The Achillea trials were being held in Portsmouth Field next to M25. Read more about Achillea ‘Credo’
At the age of 90 German nurseryman Ernst Pagel took on the breeding of new Achilleas. Criss and I visited the RHS Wisley Gardens 15 years ago at the time of the Achillea trials and it was Pagel’s yarrows which impressed us the most. Read more about Achillea ‘Terracotta’
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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’
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Not from Persia at all but from dry stony hillsides in the Taurus and Antitaurus mountains of Turkey. Growing some 30cm tall when in flower and 30cm wide it makes a wondeful tough plant for the front of the border or rock garden. Read more about Aethionema schistosum
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The late Alan Bloom, whom I had the good fortune to meet, raised many superb garden plants in his nursery in the east of England over the last sixty years of the 20th century. Agapanthus ‘Isis’ is one of them. Read more about Agapanthus campanulatus ‘Isis’
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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’
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What a marvelous Agapanthus this is with its 130cm tall thin stems topped by heads of glowing dark blue flowers. Imported 40 years ago by Jeremy Francis of Cloudehill Gardens, Lambley grew it for many years but carelessly sold all our stock 15 years ago. Read more about Agapanthus ‘Zella Thomas’
This exceptional shrub is worth a pride of place in any suitable garden. It makes a tangle of long arching stems clothed small but attractive glossy green leaves. Read more about Agapetes serpens
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This rare wild form is far more beautiful than the seed grown hybrids most often found in cultivation. Spikes of nectar laden, soft apricot-coloured tubular flowers are produced in an endless procession from late spring until winter. Read more about Agastache aurantiaca
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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. Read more about Agastache ‘Blue Boa’
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A single stem in a group of Agastache ‘Sweet Lili’ in the Tesselaar family’s garden at Silvan had deeper flower colour. Lambley took a few cuttings ten years ago and ‘Johannah’s Memory’ has a permanent home in our flower border. Read more about Agastache ‘Johannah’s Memory’
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‘Royal Sceptre’ is a great new addition to our range of Agastache and to my mind a better plant than 'Blue Boa’ with stronger and less brittle stems. The 100cm or a little more tall stems proudly hold mauve-blue, bottle-brush flower heads. Read more about Agastache ‘Royal Sceptre’
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Our best selling plant by a long margin. 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.” ‘Swe Read more about Agastache ‘Sweet Lili’
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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. Read more about Ajuga reptans ‘Black Scallop’
The very best perennial Allium suitable for a wider range of climates than the bulbous forms and not requiring a deep winter chill. It makes a compact upright clump of glossy green, narrow strap-like leaves. Read more about Allium ‘Millenium’
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This new selection has an abundance of golf ball size, soft pink flowers from spring through the summer months. This relatively small plant with its glossy green strap-like leaves has a neat compact habit making it a good plant for a garden edge or a narrow garden bed. Read more about Allium ‘Pink Pepper’
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Criss and I first saw this growing in the garden at Charlston Farmhouse in East Sussex about 35 years ago. It has been a staple in our double flower borders and the dry climate gardens now for 25 years. Read more about Allium sphaerocephalon
This super frost hardy aloe relative from Southern Africa makes a shrub some 150cm tall by a little more across. The striated stems are well clothed with narrow dark green succulent leaves. For months during the warmer months its lime green buds open to coral flowers. Read more about Aloiampelos striatula
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This delightfully fragrant shrub, native to South America, has been grown in European gardens for more than two centuries. Whilst the flowers are pretty enough it is the strong lemon aromas of the leaves for which it is grown. The leaves are used to make a herbal tea. Read more about Aloysia triphylla
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