This wonderful new Salvia was discovered at a plant market in Argentina in 2005. It makes a leafy plant which from spring until winter produces rich royal purple flowers set in black bracts. It will be happy in any sunny or lightly shaded, well drained position. Read more about Salvia ‘Amistad’ PBR
Very few flowers are as dreamy as this. We have a sea of its ethereal powder sky blue flowers in the centre aisles of the vegetable garden where it is the most commented planting in the garden at its height in autumn. S. Read more about Salvia azurea
A fast growing groundcover with aromatic silver-grey foliage. Growth is in horizontal layers topped with lavender blue flowers in spring. It is widely used in Californian gardens both private and public because its foliage so densely covers the soil. Read more about Salvia ‘Bees Bliss’
This Salvia has a tidy habit and is very free flowering. It features sparkling violet-purple flowers from December to late April. It was discovered in the Devon (UK) garden of former holder of the National Salvia Collection, Christine Yeo. Read more about Salvia greggii ‘Christine Yeo’
A greatly improved variety of S. guaranitica. Its dark blue flowers are carried on black stemmed spikes from mid-spring until late in the autumn. Can be grown in light shade but is best in full sun where it will grow up tp 120cm tall with a spread of 90cm. Read more about Salvia guaranitica ‘Black and Bloom’
This tall upright perennial carries a one sided raceme of vivid purple flowers enclosed in green bracts. Well behaved and not at all invasive it will flower from mid-summer until late autumn. 1.5-2 metres tall by 1 metre wide. Read more about Salvia guaranitica ‘Violet Eyes’
Our working title for this variety of Mexican sage. It was growing in my son Harry Glenn’s garden in Camberwell and is distinguished by its bright purple red flowers held in mauve calyces. Read more about Salvia leucantha ‘Harry's Red’
This is one of the most telling of all the summer/autumn flowering salvias. It was the most admired plant in our garden last season. We are always besieged by inquiries to purchase the plant when it flowers in the autumn. Read more about Salvia ‘Meigans Magic’
An uninspiring name for a very good plant which was given an Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society. Clear rich pink flowers on a neat twiggy plant with good green leaves. Very tolerant of hot, dry weather and tolerant of drought. Read more about Salvia microphylla ‘Pink Blush’
We imported this from Olivier Filippi’s nursery in the South of France. It has all the virtues of the species and carries long stems of soft salmon-pink, cream throated flowers which age over time to a creamy peach-pink. Read more about Salvia microphylla ‘Ribambelle’
This is a terrific new (to us) Salvia raised by Robin Middleton who has the excellent web page Robin’s Salvias. ‘Penny’s Smile’ is a seedling of Salvia ‘Silkes Dream’. It makes a shrub to 100cm tall by as much across. Read more about Salvia ‘Penny's Smile’
Salvia ‘Phyllis Fancy’ is a tough drought tolerant evergreen shrub flowering from midsummer until winter. The long arching sprays of violet and white flowers are very telling and there is good separation between flowers and foliage. Read more about Salvia ‘Phyllis Fancy’
One of the most popular new releases in recent years imported from France by one of our staff. This plant has proven to be tremendously popular and with good cause. Read more about Salvia ‘Royal Bumble’
The first Australian release of a new salvia with dark red flowers displayed on long stems above the foliage. We selected this on a plant buying trip to Europe as one of the best of the dark red flowered Salvias available. Read more about Salvia ‘Silas Dyson’
This newly released Salvia carries sky blue flowers with white bee lines held on 80-90cm tall stems clothed with dark green leaves. ‘Ballon Azul’ grows half as tall and wide as older varieties of bog sage. Read more about Salvia uliginosa ‘Ballon Azul’
This is another fine plant which we imported from Olivier Filippi’s famous nursery in the south of France and brought back through Australian quarantine. It makes a round evergreen shrub with leaves like little silver cotton wool buds. Read more about Santolina magonica
Santolina ‘Edward Bowles’ makes a low tidy evergreen shrubby mound of finely feathered greyish green leaves. During summer the whole plant is smothered by the loveliest pale lemon lacy buttons. A very drought tolerant plant that needs nothing more than a hot sunny spot. Read more about Santolina neapolitana ‘Edward Bowles’
Santolina ‘Lemon Fizz’ makes a rounded, evergreen shrub some 50cm tall by as much across with striking lemon-yellow foliage. Lemon billy-button flowers are carried well above the foliage in late spring and early summer. Read more about Santolina rosmarinifolia ‘Lemon Fizz’
A few years ago I spent a day with my son Ric Glenn in London. We visited Beth Chatto’s marvellous nursery near Colchester. One of the plants I bought that day was Santolina ‘Primrose Gem’. Read more about Santolina rosmarinifolia ‘Primrose Gem’
This sedum is one of the ground covering types making low mounds of purple edged blue-grey succulent leaves. During summer it is studded with pale pink stars which turn to carmine as the season progresses. Read more about Sedum cauticola ‘Lidakense’
The best of all the taller growing Sedum. Handsome the year round it makes 90cm or more tall stiff maroon stems clothed with waxy blue leaves. Read more about Sedum ‘Matrona’
A new variety with deep purplish blue to brownish purple foliage. 45 cm tall upright stems are topped by heads of purple pink star-like flowers. The flower heads darken to purple as they age. Less likely to fall apart than older deep purple leafed varieties. 45cm x 40cm. Read more about Sedum ‘Postman's Pride’
‘Pure Joy’ makes a 30cm tall by 45cm wide mound of blue-green serrated leaves which is smothered in late summer by a dome of pink stars. These flowers age to deep pink as the season progresses. Read more about Sedum ‘Pure Joy’
A really good foliage and flowering plant for shade. Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’ has silver, heart shaped basal leaves which are hidden during spring and early summer by clouds of true blue for-get-me-not flowers held well above the foliage on thin wiry stems. Read more about Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’
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
One of our best plants for shade, even dry shade when established. Francoa ramosa is the longest flowered of all the bridal wreaths. Long wands densely packed with showy white flowers are produced during summer and autumn over low mounds of evergreen foliage. Read more about Francoa ramosa
A small growing grass long associated with the aesthetic of Japanese gardens. Ideal for a shady spot, which gets morning sun and isn’t allowed to dry out, or for planting in a pot in light shade. It makes a graceful plant with fine arching golden-yellow leaves. Read more about Hakonechloa macra ‘All Gold’
