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 ‘Rubrum’

Red Prairie Switch Grass

Fountain like clumps of fine arching leaves are topped by a cloud of maroon midge-like flowers during autumn. Late in the season the foliage turns bronze red and finally to straw gold during winter.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50
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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

Pelargonium

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Pelargonium sidoides

South African Pelargonium

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
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Penstemon ‘Evelyn’

Sissinghurst Castle's Evelyn Penstemon

This penstemon, which was found growing in Sissinghurst Castle gardens is a clear, clean pink. Smaller in all its parts than most garden penstemons it is a tough, long flowering, front of the border plant. 40cm x 40cm.

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

Philadelphus

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 lanata ‘Pygmy’

Phlomis lanata is itself quite a compact evergreen shrub with the smallest leaves in the genus. ‘Pygmy’, a very, very small clone, has the same grey-green, deeply veined leaves as the type.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50
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Phlomis purpurea ssp. almeriensis

Almerian Phlomis

The Almerian Phlomis is found in the most arid parts of of the south-eastern corner of Spain. This sub-species is one of the most beautiful pink-flowered plants in the genus. It makes an evergreen shrub some 120cm tall by 100cm wide.

$12.50 each

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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