Our best selection from the new cultivars, 'Fireworks' is a superb new import with its two tone flowers in large umbels shading from dark-blue through purple with pure white outer edges. Read more about Agapanthus ‘Fireworks’
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This super frost hardy aloe relative from Southern Africa makes a shrub some 150cm tall by as much wide shrub. The striated stems are well clothed with narrow dark green succulent leaves. Read more about Aloiampelos striatula
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. Read more about Anemanthele lessoniana
This Japanese windflower is more compact than older varieties producing its semi-double, rose pink flowers, on strong 50-60cm tall stems from late summer until late autumn. Good in large pots as well as in a protected area in the garden. Read more about Anemone x hybrida ‘Falling in Love Sweetly’
This is new for us and it is a terrific carpeting plant with hairy grey leaves and prostate stems producing large white snapdragons with a delicate blush of pink. It will grow happily in any sunny well drained spot and is quite drought tolerant once established. Read more about Antirrhinum hispanicum ‘Avalanche’
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. Read more about Aquilegia chrysantha ‘Denver Gold’
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. Read more about Arctostaphylos uva-ursi ‘Green Bay’
Called Hattie’s Pincushion as the flowers “look like a mass of pins stuck into a central cushion. Surrounding the cushion is a ring of pointed papery bracts.” These white green tipped, subtle, exquisite flowers are held well above dense clumps of palmate leaves. Read more about Astrantia maxima ‘Snow Star’
One of the wonders of the hardy plant world, drought tolerant and totally handsome, Beschorneria yuccoides makes a 100cm tall rosette of pewter-grey Yucca like foliage, soft to the touch and not at all spiny. Read more about Beschorneria yuccoides
The Illawarra Flame Tree is one of the world’s most spectacular trees when it erupts into flower. Whilst evergreen for most of time when about to blossom it will lose its glossy green, lobed leaves and be smothered in brilliant red, bell shaped waxy flowers. Read more about Brachychiton x acerifolia
Huge branching heads of rich lilac pink flowers are produced late in the season on a medium sized well branched shrub. We cut it back to about 90cm in late winter or early spring. Read more about Buddleja davidii ‘Dartmoor’
A Dutch raised cross between Buddleja davidii var. magnifica and Buddleja globosa which was selected for its richer colour. Large shrub with arching lance shaped leaves, golden flowers in large dense panicles. Very hardy. Full sun/part shade. Read more about Buddleja ‘Sungold’
Compact deciduous shrub which is grown for its clusters of winter berries which are like deep violet-purple pearls. A very showy plant for winter decoration both in the house and in the garden. Read more about Callicarpa bodinieri var. giraldii ‘Profusion’
A compact, well branched small shrub clothed in glossy dark green leaves. During late summer and early autumn it is covered in flowers which attract both butterflies and bees. Drought tolerant when once established it prefers a sunny well drained spot in the garden. Read more about Caryopteris x clandonensis ‘Blue Mist’
The ‘Pagoda’ blue beards are unique as they make excellent commercial cut flowers as well as tough drought tolerant shrubs for the garden. ‘Pagoda Blush’ has a long flower stem with whorls of soft pink flowers along its whole length. Read more about Caryopteris incana ‘Pagoda Blush’
The ‘Pagoda’ blue beards are unique as they make excellent commercial cut flowers as well as tough drought tolerant shrubs for the garden. ‘Pagoda Lagoon’ has a long flower stem with whorls of mauve blue flowers along its whole length. Read more about Caryopteris incana ‘Pagoda Lagoon’
Chrysanthemums are enjoying something of a revival and these Garden Chrysanthemums have been bred for garden display rather than for cut flowers. Fairly low growing and strongly upright in habit they will make a fabulous display next autumn. If planted during the next few weeks they will grow 50cm tall with a spread of 60cm. Plant in a sunny spot in well dug soil or potting mix and water regularly.
These garden Chrysanthemums are as beautiful in pots (a 30cm pot would be best) as they are in the garden but if grown in pots will need to be watered daily.
This compact plant displays bright yellow pom-pom flowers bred for garden display rather than for cut flowers. Fairly low growing and strongly upright in habit they will make a fabulous display next autumn. 50cm tall with a spread of 60cm. Read more about Chrysanthemum ‘Elektra Yellow’
Cotoneaster dammeri is one of the best of all evergreen ground covers. It makes a mat of small dark green leathery leaves and its prostrate stems root where they touch the soil. Its flowers are fragrant and during autumn and winter the bright red berries are showy. Read more about Cotoneaster dammeri
Plants which thrive in dry shade are few and far between. Cotyledon ‘Silver Shadow’ with its intensely silver white succulent leaves lightens an otherwise gloomy corner between and under two cypresses in the dry garden. 50cm x 60cm. Read more about Cotyledon orbiculata ‘Silver Shadow’
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’
This beautiful little Japanese shrub smothers itself in fragrant white bells in late spring. The flowers are carried on arching branches. Best grown in a sunny spot which is watered during dry periods. Height 70-120cm width 60-120cm. Read more about Deutzia gracilis
This variety may well have the bluest foliage of all the ornamental Euphorbias. At Lambley it has made a round shrub, some 50cm by 50cm, clothed in beautiful powder blue leaves and crowned during spring and summer with large chartreuse flower heads. Read more about Euphorbia ‘Blue Peaks’
Euphorbia charachias grows wild on hot dry slopes on the southern European side of the Mediterranean and is one of the toughest plants for a dry climate garden. E. ‘Silver Swan’ is another selection from Notcutt’s nursery. Read more about Euphorbia characias ‘Silver Swan’ PBR
This is one of the best groundcovers for dry shade where it will make suckering 40 cm tall evergreen stems clothed in handsome blue-green foliage. During spring the whole is covered by heads of lime green flowers. Read more about Euphorbia robbiae
NEW A fabulous foliage plant for a shady spot even relatively dry shade or sunny when once established although it is native to the mountains of southern Mexico where it does get regular rainfall. Read more about Furcraea quicheensis
