Lambley Nursery

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

Perennial Catalogue - S

Salvia

Salvia ‘Amistad’ PBR

Friendship Sage

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.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Salvia fruticosa ‘Greek Skies’

Greek Sky Sage

A beautiful grey foliaged sage, which we got from Judy Forrester’s wonderful Nursery near Apollo Bay on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria. Happy in the spartan conditions of our dry climate garden where it grows on the east side of an olive tree.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Salvia lavandulifolia

Spanish Sage

A plant of dry Spanish, French and north-west African hillsides and is quite closely related to culinary sage. S. lavandulifolia makes an evergreen shrub some 40cm tall by 80cm across with grey-green foliage and 30cm tall stems of large soft mauve-blue flowers.

1 for $10.00, 3 for $27.00

Salvia leucantha ‘White Velour’

White Velour Mexican Sage

Salvia leucantha, in all its forms, is the most important Salvia species in our garden during late summer and autumn. This pure white variety is a star in a new rose garden Criss and I have just planted.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Salvia ‘Mystic Spires’

This beautifully compact new plant is a sport of the gangly S. ‘Indigo Spires’ and has the same dark violet flowers, slightly smaller leaves and grows just a third of the height of its progenitor. It is also self supporting unlike ‘Indigo Spires’.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

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

Salvia nemorosa ‘Caradonna’

Caradonna Meadow Sage

This is the most popular of these terrific hybrid Salvias in Europe, and it performs outstandingly in Australian gardens. S. ‘Caradonna’ distinguishes itself by holding its rich violet flower spikes on stiff black stems. It has done very well in our dry garden this year.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Salvia nemorosa ‘Ostfriesland’

East Friesland Meadow Sage

A stunning German bred plant with dozens of spikes of glowing rich deep violet flowers beginning in late spring. After about 10 weeks of extraordinary beauty the flowers pass their prime and we cut the whole plant to the ground.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Salvia ‘Phyllis Fancy’

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.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Salvia sclarea ‘Archibalds Form’

Archibald’s Clary Sage

We offer a superb form of the Clary Sage collected by Jim and Jenny Archibald in Turkey about 18 years ago.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Santolina

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

Santolina rosmarinifolia ‘Primrose Gem’

Primrose Gem Cotton Lavender

A few years ago I spent a day with my son Ric Glenn, who is now a head gardener of Crown Land around the Regent’s Park and Carlton House Terrace in London. We visited Beth Chatto’s marvellous nursery near Colchester.

1 for $12.00, 3 for $33.00

Scabiosa

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

Shade Lovers

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

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

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

Heucherella ‘Red Rover’

Red Foamy Bells

An intergeneric cross between a Tiarella and a Heuchera which during spring produces large, intensely red, deeply lobed foliage. In summer the foliage mellows to red tinted olive green.

1 for $13.50, 3 for $37.50

Shrubs

Arctostaphylos manzanita ‘St Helena’

St Helena Manzanita

From the dry western areas of the USA beautiful in all its parts from the burnished copper-bronze twisted trunks to its wonderful large grey-green leaves and exquisite lily-of-the-valley flowers. Thoroughly drought tolerant when once established.

1 for $15.00, 3 for $42.00

Buddleja ‘Sungold’

Sungold Butterfly Bush

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.

1 for $15.00, 3 for $42.00

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

Spiraea cantoniensis ‘Flore Pleno’

Bridal Wreath Spiraea

This old fashioned semi-evergreen shrub has been grown in western gardens since 1824 and in Chinese gardens for aeons before that. Small pure white double flowers are produced in clusters on cascading, arching branches during late spring and early summer.

1 for $15.00, 3 for $42.00

Solidago

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

Spiraea

Spiraea cantoniensis ‘Flore Pleno’

Bridal Wreath Spiraea

This old fashioned semi-evergreen shrub has been grown in western gardens since 1824 and in Chinese gardens for aeons before that. Small pure white double flowers are produced in clusters on cascading, arching branches during late spring and early summer.

1 for $15.00, 3 for $42.00