Lambley Nursery

Lambley Gardens & Nursery, 395 Lesters Road,  Ascot,  Victoria 3364
Phone +61 (03) 5343 4303,  Fax +61 (03) 5343 4257

Perennial Catalogue - P

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Panicum

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Panicum virgatum ‘Heavy Metal’

Blue Prairie Switch Grass

This is totally different in both leaf colour and outline to the other Panicums that we’ve listed in previous catalogues. Panicum ‘Heavy Metal’ makes clumps of stiff upright stems clothed in blue leaves.

1 for $13.00, 3 for $36.00

Parthenocissus

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Parthenocissus quinquefolia

Virginia Creeper

It’s one of the great joys of late autumn here at Lambley when the Virginia Creeper sets the vegetable garden paling fence on fire as the green, five fingered leaves turn intense red. Fast growing and happy in sun or light shade it can climb up to 30 or 40 metres.

1 for $13.50, 3 for $37.50

Pelargonium

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Pelargonium reniforme

Pelargonium reniforme is one of an interesting and beautiful group of frost hardy South African Pelargoniums. It’s been growing in our dry garden for three years and has performed so well we have planted another large patch by the side of a gravel path.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50
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Pelargonium sidoides

This plant is just as tough as Pelargonium reniforme, the other frost hardy South African pelargonium we grow in our Dry Garden. The main difference is in the colour of the flowers. P. sidioides has dark chocolate maroon almost black flowers.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Penstemon

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Penstemon ‘Alice Hindley’

One of my favourite Penstemon with the loveliest blue-mauve white throated flowers beautifully poised on long pedicels. Flowering as it does from late spring until winter it has been a mainstay of our double borders for many years.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50
Penstemon barbatus Rock Candy Ruby
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Penstemon barbatus ‘Rock Candy Ruby’

'Rock Candy Ruby' is a new dwarf growing variety of this Californian species which will produce showy ruby-pink tubular flowers from spring until late autumn on 30cm tall leafy stems.

1 for $12.00, 3 for $33.00
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Penstemon ‘Firebird’

An old vigorous variety raised in Switzerland in the 1930s, now nearing its 100th birthday. “A glowing shade of red...” narrowly tubular flowers are a joy from late spring until winter. A particularly long lived cultivar P.

1 for $12.00, 3 for $33.00
Penstemon Midnight
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Penstemon ‘Midnight’

Deep violet-purple tubular flowers are carried on 90cm tall stems from late spring until late autumn. Glossy, dark green foliage adds to the affect. Plant in any sunny or lightly shaded spot. Removing spent flower stems will keep the display looking fresh.

1 for $12.00, 3 for $33.00
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Penstemon ‘Pink Cloud’

Like all of these hybrid Penstemon this variety is very tough and drought tolerant. This clone is one of the tallest of its kind growing up to 120cm. The top third of this carries charming lilac pink, white-throated tubular flowers. 120cm x 90cm.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50
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Penstemon ‘White Bedder’

Another superb white penstemon with all the virtues and showing just the most delicate blush of pink as the flower ripens. One of the best white flowering perennials for use in a border.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Philadelphus

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Philadelphus ‘Silver Shower’

Natchez Orange Blossom

Silver Showers is a rounded, multi stemmed deciduous shrub with a shapely form and gracefully arching branches with mid green leaves.

1 for $12.00, 3 for $33.00

Phlomis

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Phlomis chimerae

Southern Turkish Jerusalem Sage

A very rare Phlomis grown from seed collected by Olivier Filippi in Southern Turkey and imported by us from his nursery a few years ago. It’s made a neat rounded shrub well clothed by relatively small, oval, grey green leaves with lighter undersides.

1 for $13.50, 3 for $37.50
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Phlomis italica

Jerusalem Sage

This, the true species, has rarely if ever been offered in Australia. A hybrid between P. italica and P. purpurea has been mistakenly sold as this for many years including by us.

1 for $13.50, 3 for $37.50
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Phlomis ‘Lemon Blush’

This new import is, to my mind, the most beautiful in foliage of all the Phlomis. At Lambley it has made a handsome, evergreen shrub a metre or so tall by nearly as much across in a year.

1 for $13.50, 3 for $37.50
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Phlomis longifolia

Egg Yolk Jerusalem Sage

The Phlomis include some of the best evergreen shrubs for Australian gardens. This is a superb species with rich green leaves. Deep egg yolk yellow flowers open from russet-olive buds in whorls along the vertical flower stems. P.

1 for $13.50, 3 for $37.50
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Phlomis maroccana

Pink Jerusalem Sage

This rare perennial species, native to Algeria and Morocco, carries whorls of pale pink, purple lipped, talon-like flowers on stiff 100cm tall stems during spring and early summer.

1 for $13.50, 3 for $37.50
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Phlomis russeliana

Jerusalem Sage

The large felt-like, heart shaped evergreen leaves, green above grey beneath, make a dense weed proof mound. The strong stiff 100cm stems are encircled with whorls of soft yellow hooded flowers. Handsome the year round, this plant is happy in sun or light shade.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Pittosporum

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Pittosporum tobira ‘Wheelers Dwarf’

Pittosporum tobira is a fine coastal plant resistant to salt winds. It is also happy inland and will grow in sun or shade. This new low growing form, Pittosprum tobira ’Wheelers Dwarf’, makes a neat round evergreen shrub to about a metre in height and a little more across.

1 for $12.00, 3 for $33.00

Poa

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Poa labillardieri ‘Suggan Buggan ’

Blue Poa

A fabulous form of this native grass with arching mounds of evergreen foliage, blue and graceful. Typical upright stems of flowers bluish in bud ageing to straw. Cut back to about 15cm immediately after flowering. 100cm x 100cm. Sun or at most very light shade.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50
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