Lambley Nursery

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

Perennial Catalogue - S

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Salvia

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Salvia leucantha ‘Pink Velour’

Pink Velour Mexican Sage

A relatively new plant imported from a South African breeder with all the virtues. S. ‘Pink Velour’ has baby pink blooms from showy white bracts and white flower spikes. A new colour break for this species. Sun or light shade. 100cm x 90cm.

1 for $12.00, 3 for $33.00
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Salvia ‘Meigans Magic’

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.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50
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Salvia microphylla ‘Ribambelle’

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.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50
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Salvia nemorosa ‘Blue Marvel’

Blue Marvel Meadow Sage

This new S. nemorosa variety has tidy spikes of very larghe violet-blue flowers. The plant is dwarf in habit growing some 30cm tall with a 40cm spread. If spent flowers are removed it will be in bloom from mid-spring until the autumn.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50
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Salvia officinalis ‘Berggarten’

Ornamental Culinary Sage

An ornamental variety of the culinary sage making an evergreen sub shrub with large intensely silver-grey leaves. Salvia ‘Berggarten’, which rarely flowers, is one of the finest of all grey foliage plants, rarely if ever having a down season. Sun loving and drought tolerant.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50
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Salvia officinalis ‘Silver Sabre’

Silver Sabre Sage

‘Silver Sabre’ is a striking new variety of sage with grey leaves boldly margined with creamy white. The young leaves have pink flushing through the variegation. ‘Silver Sabre’ needs a sunny well drained spot and will grow 70cm tall by 90cm across.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Santolina

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Santolina magonica

Minorcan Cotton Lavender

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.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Scabiosa

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Scabiosa africanus

African Pin Cushion

A vigorous South African evergreen perennial which will soon make a mound of large, hairy leaves, During spring and summer tall stems carry large, mauve pin cushion flowers some 5cm in diameter. It makes a great garden plant and a good cut flower.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Sedum

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Sedum spectabile ‘Hot Stuff’

Hot Stuff Stonecrop

This new dwarf Sedum from California carries its large showy heads of deep pink flowers on a bushy 35cm tall by 40cm wide plant. This seedling of S. ‘Brilliant’ is the shortest of all the S. spectabile forms.

1 for $12.00, 3 for $33.00
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Sedum ‘Thunderhead’

Thunderhead Stonecrop

This new Sedum carries huge heads of deep rose to crimson flowers during late summer and autumn on 60-70cm tall stems well clothed in grey-green leaves. Happy in any sunny well drained position in the garden and needs very little supplementary irrigation.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Shade Lovers

These plants are suited to shady locations including dry shade where noted

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Cotyledon orbiculata ‘Silver Shadow’

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.

1 for $12.00, 3 for $33.00
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Euphorbia cyparissias

Cypress spurge

This beautiful groundcover has a vigorous suckering habit so is best planted on its own in difficult dry shady spots. It is far too rampant for mixed garden beds. Lime green flower heads are produced on 20cm tall stems clothed in fine blue-grey cypress like leaves.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50
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Euphorbia robbiae

Mrs Robb’s Bonnet

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.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50
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Symphytum ‘Hidcote Blue’

Ornamental Blue Comfrey

A fine blue flowered form of ornamental comfrey. Tough, shade loving and tolerant of dryness when once established this will make a good groundcover for difficult shaded areas. During spring it carries 35cm tall stems carrying dangling bells of blue flowers.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Shrubs

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Forsythia ‘Gold Clusters’

This is the best dwarf Forsythia which only grows 120cm tall by as much across. During early spring it produces a mass of lemon-yellow open bells so abundantly that you can barely see the stem for flowers. During autumn the foliage turns burgundy chocolate.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Solidago

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Solidago ‘Evita’

Bred for cut flower production but also a really good and beautiful garden plant. 100cm tall stems clothed in dark green leaves carry multiple branching heads of feathery yellow flowers.

$12.50 each

Symphytum

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Symphytum ‘Hidcote Blue’

Ornamental Blue Comfrey

A fine blue flowered form of ornamental comfrey. Tough, shade loving and tolerant of dryness when once established this will make a good groundcover for difficult shaded areas. During spring it carries 35cm tall stems carrying dangling bells of blue flowers.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50
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