Perennial Catalogue - A

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.