The best white flowered Bergenia we know with good tough foliage and the old leaves colouring well in winter. The flower stems are held well above the leaves and have horizontal secondary stems which display the white flowers beautifully. Read more about Bergenia ‘Bressingham White’
‘Lisan’ is a more compact, shorter growing Bistorta than the well-known ‘Taurus’. It produces countless thin spikes of deep pink flowers held well above dense clumps of large handsome leaves. Whilst quite tough, it needs some supplementary watering during dry periods. Read more about Bistorta amplexicaulis ‘Lisan’
Brachyglottis ‘Sunshine’ is one of the most handsome evergreen shrubs for the dry garden. It makes a neat 90 by 120cm mound clothed with large, leathery grey foliage and during late spring and early summer carries multiple heads of lovely lemon-yellow daisies. Read more about Brachyglottis ‘Sunshine’
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David S. Stuart in his monograph on the genus wrote that ‘Lochinch’ was one of his favourite varieties. This hybrid popped up in the garden of the Earl of Stair at Lochinch in Wigtownshire, Scotland during the Second World War. Read more about Buddleja ‘Lochinch’
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’
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This species form features rich green leaves and is still enormously generous with its arching sprays of mauve flowers. Like the silver leaf form it can be kept to about 2 metres by 2 metres if cut back hard after flowering otherwise it will get much larger. Read more about Buddleja alternifolia
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This silver leaved butterfly bush is a gorgeous selection of Buddleja alternifolia having leaves covered by silky hairs which gives the plant its silvery appearance. It’s perhaps best grown as a standard to show its graceful weeping habit to the greatest advantage. Read more about Buddleja alternifolia ‘Argentea’
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Buddleja ‘Hot Raspberry’ is easy to grow both in the garden and in pots. It is one of a new breed of Buddlejas which are diminutive enough to find a place in even quite small gardens. Read more about Buddleja davidii ‘Hot Raspberry’
This the clearest pink flowered of all the Buddlejas with the largest of flower heads. Very large trusses of butterfly attracting pink flowers are carried over a long season. A bonus are the handsome grey leaves. Read more about Buddleja davidii ‘Pink Delight’
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’
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Flowering here in our Dry Garden in the latter part of October, the Chinese Butterfly Bush is endemic to upper Burma and western China, including Tibet, Buddleja myriantha is evergreen with felted grey green leaves and carrying its deep mauve, fragrant flowers on upright spike Read more about Buddleja myriantha
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This beautiful, drought tolerant shrub is grown as much for its handsome foliage as for its flowers, pretty though they are. In our dry climate garden, it has made an upright shrub some 400cm x 300cm. Read more about Buddleja crispa
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This hybrid between B. ‘Lochinch’ and B. ‘Black Knight’ is a chance seedling which cropped up in our garden a decade or more ago. It has the dark violet flowers of ‘Black Knight’ and the neat habit of ‘Lochinch’. Read more about Buddleja ‘Ascot Violet’
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“The handsomest of all the Himalayan shrubs” Sir Joseph Hooker. I’ve grown this, the largest flowered of all the Buddlejas for 20 or 30 years. It flowers quite easily on wood from the previous seasons growth. Read more about Buddleja colvilei
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Native to China and Japan Buddleja lindleyana has graceful weeping 50cm long flower panicles. The individual flowers, large for the genus, have pale lavender exteriors and rich purple interiors. This Buddleja flowers on new wood so pruning can be done in winter. Read more about Buddleja lindleyana
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Bred for its smaller size and long pendant flowers, the bee and butterfly attracting flowers are produced from November through to April as long as spent flowers are removed.Suited to growing in pots as well as small gardens. Read more about Buddleja davidii ‘Wisteria Lane ’ PBR
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This species is native to Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, Northern India, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam. It generally grows into a small tree. ‘Fansipan’ is a dwarf selection found growing on the tallest mountain in Indochina, Phan Xi Pang. Read more about Buddleja macrostachya ‘Fansipan’
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The Nanho race of buddlejas are naturally small growing and so are useful in tight spaces. We’ve been growing Buddleja ‘Nanho Plum’ in a corner of our double flower borders for at least 10 years. Read more about Buddleja nanhoensis ‘Nanho Plum’
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‘Golden Glow’ is thought to have been produced by Major William John Bates van de Weyer during his leave from World War I at his home Smedmore House in Dorset. This is also a hybrid between B. davidii var. magnifica and B. globosa. Read more about Buddleja x weyeriana ‘Golden Glow’
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‘Moonlight’ carries sweetly scented creamy lemon orange eyed flowers for many months from late spring into autumn. It will grow into a two metre or more, tall willowy shrub. Best planted in full sun it is drought hardy once established. Read more about Buddleja x weyeriana ‘Moonlight’
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This beautiful, drought tolerant shrub is grown as much for its handsome foliage as for its flowers, pretty though they are. In our dry climate garden, it has made an upright shrub some 400cm x 300cm. Read more about Buddleja crispa
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David S. Stuart in his monograph on the genus wrote that ‘Lochinch’ was one of his favourite varieties. This hybrid popped up in the garden of the Earl of Stair at Lochinch in Wigtownshire, Scotland during the Second World War. Read more about Buddleja ‘Lochinch’
This superb new small growing violet-black flowered Buddleja is diminutive enough to grow in a pot as well as making a terrific long flowering garden shrub where it will grow around 180cm tall by 120cm wide. Read more about Buddleja ‘Midnight’
I remember my late father being very taken by this when he visited Australia and planted lots of it in my brother’s Monbulk garden. A frost hardy, drought tolerant evergreen shrub which from early summer until late autumn turns itself into cumulus clouds of soft grey flowers. Read more about Bystropogon canariensis
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This lovely little bellflower grows in rocky places inland from the Italian Adriatic. Easy to grow, it makes low evergreen mats of pointed heart-shaped leaves. Lilac-mauve, white throated star shaped flowers completely cover the foliage during late spring and summer. Read more about Campanula garganica
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This evergreen plant provides year-round impact with its gracefully arching variegated leaves. It is at its most elegant when grown in a large pot so that its weeping habit can be shown to best effect. That said it also makes a good garden plant. Read more about Carex ‘Feather Falls’ PBR
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This late summer/autumn flowering shrub has thrived in a tough spot for years but some summer watering is always well-rewarded. As the marvellous rich dark blue flowers are produced on new seasons wood it’s best to cut Caryopteris to near ground level during winter. Read more about Caryopteris x clandonensis ‘Heavenly Blue’
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Caryopteris are tough, drought tolerant deciduous shrubs which, happily for us, flower for a long time during late summer and autumn. ‘Lisaura’ is the best of the gold leaf forms. Read more about Caryopteris x clandonensis ‘Lisaura’
A wonderful new shrub which will produce masses of blue flowers on 40cm tall stems during late summer and autumn. Whilst drought tolerant once established, Caryopteris do better if given a modicum of water during dry periods. Read more about Caryopteris ‘Pavillion Blue’
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A wonderful new shrub which will produce masses of pink flowers on 40cm tall stems during late summer and autumn. Whilst drought tolerant once established, Caryopteris do better if given a modicum of water during dry periods. Read more about Caryopteris ‘Pavillion Pink’
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A wonderful new shrub which will produce masses of white flowers on 40cm tall stems during late summer and autumn. Whilst drought tolerant when once established Caryopteris do better if given a modicum of water during dry periods. Read more about Caryopteris ‘Pavillion White’
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We’ve grown Ceanothus ‘Blue Sapphire’ in the same spot, a hot dry bank, for the past twenty-five years. It looks as good as ever. It makes low gracefully arching stems covered by small dark green, almost black, glossy leaves. Read more about Ceanothus ‘Blue Sapphire’
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The best of the smaller height spreading Ceanothus making arching mounds of dark green, relatively large, evergreen leaves. During early spring dusty white buds develop into 2 inch long panicles of China-blue flowers. Read more about Ceanothus ‘Yankee Point’
This noble plant has been cultivated in western gardens for at least 200 years and was a feature of Thomas Jefferson’s garden at Monticello. It will produce strong stems some 150cm tall carrying 10cm wide lemon-yellow flower heads. Read more about Centaurea macrocephala
An attractive and versatile small shrub to 80cm with beautiful lacy heads of powder-blue flowers on top of large leathery green, red edged leaves. Very tolerant of drought once established. Flowering from mid -summer into autumn when its leaves turn red and orange. Read more about Ceratostigma ‘Summer Sky’
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A beautiful variety of Japonica which produces double salmon pink flowers on bare branches from mid-winter well into spring. Picked stems last for weeks in water as new flowers open in a vase. Read more about Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Falconnet Charlet’
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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’
This intergeneric hybrid between Catalpa bignonoides and Chilopsis linearis was raised in the Tashkent botanical gardens in Uzbekistan. It is a superb summer flowering small tree or large shrub for both hot dry inland conditions and coastal areas. Read more about x Chitalpa tashkentensis ‘Pink Dawn’
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‘Bennett’s White’ is the grandest of all the Cistus carrying very large, very sumptuous white flowers on a 180cm tall shrub clothed in narrow glossy green leaves. Read more about Cistus ‘Bennett’s White’
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A tough evergreen shrub with beautiful silver pink flowers, whitish towards the centre, over grey-green foliage. C. ‘Grayswood Pink’ grows about 45cm tall and 120cm wide. Read more about Cistus ‘Grayswood Pink’
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Cistus monspeliensis is native to the Mediterranean area and the Canary Islands. It makes a tough drought tolerant evergreen shrub some 100cm tall by 120 across. Read more about Cistus monspeliensis
One of our most popular plants, this very drought tolerant, evergreen shrub makes a 120cm wide evergreen mat clothed in small sage like leaves which during late spring and early summer is graced by hundreds of white, golden centred, flowers like a small single rose. Read more about Cistus salviifolius ‘Prostratus’
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Named for the area of Northern India bordering Kashmir and Tibet this tough vigorous climber is one of the easiest and most drought tolerant of all Clematis. Read more about Clematis ladakhiana
Easy to grow and free flowering, we’ve had ‘Golden Tiara’ growing on a fence for many years now and it never ceases to astonish us with its long flowering beauty. Read more about Clematis tangutica ‘Golden Tiara’
There can hardly be a better carpeting plant than this north African ground cover. Convolvulus ‘L.A. Form’ is a favourite of ours featuring an especially large flowered variety imported from California where it is widely grown for its superior qualities. Read more about Convolvulus sabatius ‘L.A. Form’
‘Heliot’ is a Fleuroselect gold medal winner. This medal is only awarded to plants which are considered outstanding. This selection of the widespread North American perennial produces rich golden flowers with a central crimson for much of late spring, summer and autumn. Read more about Coreopsis grandiflora ‘Heliot’
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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’
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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 it produces showy bright red berries. Read more about Cotoneaster dammeri
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This marvellous Cyclamen, endemic to the hills and mountains near the Turkish Black Sea coast, is one of the joys of winter when it gives forth an almost endless succession of flowers ranging from light to dark pink. Read more about Cyclamen coum
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The easiest of all the genus to grow in the garden, this native of southern Europe and western Turkey will naturalise in the garden. Our well-established bulbs are three years old. Best planted in some light shade under deciduous trees and shrubs. Read more about Cyclamen hederifolium
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Daphne cneorum ‘Leila Haines’ is one of the most beautiful small shrubs we have grown at Lambley. It has made a very compact plant some 10cm high by 35cm across in the five years we have grown it. Read more about Daphne cneorum ‘Leila Haines’
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A couple of years ago the gardening world in the UK, Europe and America was bewitched by these new plants, the result of some brilliant hybridising by the venerable old English company Thompson and Morgan. Cross pollinating frost hardy Foxgloves with the rather tender Canary Island Isoplexis canariensis resulted in these incredibly long flowering, easily grown border plants.
This breakthrough hybrid carries tall stems of large, densely packed flowers in rich and unique colours. They will flower longer than each of their parents and are happy in any sunny or lightly shaded spot which doesn’t parch during summer.
Digiplexis have done very well here at Lambley in a north facing border, although they would be just as happy in a little light shade. Whilst needing regular summer watering, they are tough and, in our experience, problem-free. They are frost-hardy in most if not all Australian gardens. Last year in our own garden they were in flower from late spring until mid-autumn. Read more about Digiplexis
This breakthrough cross between Isoplexis and Digitalis carries large pink trumpets, each with a cream throat speckled with burgundy, on strong, densely packed 90cm-tall stems. Read more about Digiplexis ‘Berry Canary’
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This breakthrough cross between Isoplexis and Digitalis carries large tubular flowers of brilliant apricot-gold on 50cm tall stems from tight foliage mounds of grey green leaves from mid-spring until autumn. Read more about Digiplexis ‘Firecracker’
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This breakthrough cross between Isoplexis and Digitalis carries 90cm tall spikes of flaming orange flowers with rich orange and magenta speckled throats over rosettes of broad dark green leaves. Read more about Digiplexis ‘Falcon Fire’
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This exciting new hybrid Foxglove makes a gorgeous display of outward facing raspberry red trumpets with a peach centre on 60cm tall flower spikes. Read more about Digiplexis ‘Ruby Glow’
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Digiplexis ‘Raspberry’ carries purplish raspberry red flowers with a pale speckled throat on impressive 90cm tall stems. Digiplexis have done very well here at Lambley in a north facing border although they would be just as happy in a little light shade. Read more about Digiplexis ‘Illumination Raspberry’
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‘Flame’ is almost tropical looking. “Spikes flaming magenta pink with rich cantaloupe orange magenta speckled throats” are borne all the way around 90cm tall stems set over dark rosettes of broad darker green leaves. Read more about Digiplexis ‘Illumination Flame’
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When grown well, the Rusty Foxglove can grow up to 180cm tall, though usually it will make 90-150cm. It is best to plant this foxglove during late summer or early autumn so that it can produce strong flower spikes the following spring. Read more about Digitalis ferruginea ‘Gelber Herold’
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This hybrid between the yellow flowered perennial D. grandiflora and the common purple flowered foxglove D. purpurea carries pendulous warm raspberry-pink bell-shaped flowers during spring and summer. Read more about Digitalis x mertonensis ‘Summer King’
Native to the mountains of Spain and Morocco D. obscura, unlike all other species of foxgloves, is an evergreen shrub. Clothed with glossy light green, willow like leaves it produces many upright stems of beautiful dangling bells in shades of primrose, rusty orange and red. Read more about Digitalis obscura
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Digitalis parviflora is an endemic of woodland hillsides in northern and central Spain. During spring and early summer it sends up 60cm tall spires densely packed with narrow milk chocolate coloured flowers from basal rosettes of dark green leaves. Read more about Digitalis parviflora ‘Milk Chocolate’
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This perennial from southeast Europe and nearby Turkey is a plant of moist hillsides and woodlands. When happy, as it was in the late Zoe Minotti’s Geelong garden, it is one of the most refined of all daisies. Read more about Doronicum orientale ‘Magnificum’
Veitch’s Globe Flower is one of the stars of our dry garden. Its bold, dark green divided foliage and stiff stems topped by dark blue drumstick flowers cause quite a stir when in full glory. Read more about Echinops ritro ‘Veitchs Blue’
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Most Echiums don’t flower well here at Lambley because of our regular heavy frosts. We got this frost hardy form of Echium virescens a decade or more ago and our original plant is still alive and flowering well. It makes a large shrub to near 2 metres by 2 metres . Read more about Echium virescens
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