Lambley Nursery

Lambley Gardens & Nursery, 395 Lesters Road, Ascot, Victoria 3364
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Salvia

Salvia ‘Alegria's Child’

Alegria's Child Sage

This stunning new Salvia is a seedling of S. ‘Alegria’ which is itself a hybrid between S. microphylla and S. dichlamys. ‘Alegria’s Child’ carries flame pink flowers in dark calyces on 30cm stems held well above a leafy plant some 120cm tall by as much across.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Salvia azurea

Azure Blue Sage

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.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Salvia leucophylla 'Bees Bliss'

Salvia ‘Bees Bliss’

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.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Salvia ‘Burgundy Mirage’

Burgundy Mirage Sage

This was a standout plant at the nursery grower’s trials last December. Masses of rich burgundy flowers are carried over dark green glossy foliage. A shrubby plant making eventually some 50cm tall by 80cm across.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Salvia greggii ‘Christine Yeo’

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.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Salvia guaranitica ‘Black and Bloom’

Black and Bloom Sage

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.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Salvia x jamensis ‘White Gold’

Yellow Flowered Sage

Newly imported, this is similar to Salvia greggii both in growth and needs but is a hybrid between S. greggii and S. microphylla. Makes a twiggy shrub covered with the most captivating of light lemon flowers for most of the warmer months.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

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

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

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

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

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

Salvia ‘Penny's Smile’

Penny's Smile Sage

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.

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 ‘Royal Bumble’

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.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Salvia ‘Silas Dyson’

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.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Sedum

Sedum ‘Birthday Party’

Birthday Party Stonecrop

This is perhaps the most dwarf of all the large flower headed sedums. The 12cm wide deep rose flower heads are held on 25cm tall stems. The stems are well clothed with glossy green leaves which develop burgundy edges as the season progresses.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Sedum cauticola ‘Lidakense’

Lidakense Stonecrop

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.

1 for $10.00, 3 for $27.00

Sedum ‘Postman's Pride’

Proud Postman's Stonecrop

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.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Sedum ‘Purple Emperor’

We’ve sold this in the past as Sedum ‘Hestor’ but I think this is probably the correct name. S. ‘Purple Emperor’ makes 35cm tall stems clothed in bronze purple succulent leaves. These are crowned by rich maroon purple flowers in late summer and autumn.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Sedum ruprechtii ‘Dusky Pink’

Similar to the famed Beth Chatto form of Sedum ruprechtii this is a superb alternative. Both are good plants; both have creamy white flowers although this plant seems more white; both have glaucous foliage with this having a dusky pink overlay.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

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

Shade Lovers

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

Ajuga ‘Black Scallop’

Black Scallop Groundcover

A superb variety of shade loving groundcover. Its evergreen glossy dark purple almost black foliage makes a dense carpet in any shady spot which doesn’t parch during summer. Showy spikes of deep blue flowers on 25 cm tall stems are produced in spring.

This plant is not in our current range and is provided here for customer information only.

Arthropodium cirrhatum ‘Te Puna’

Dwarf New Zealand Rock Lily

A relatively dwarf New Zealand Rock Lily with handsome arching sword shaped leaves and produces masses of shooting star, lily-like flowers during spring and summer.

1 for $12.00, 3 for $33.00

Beschorneria septentrionalis

Shade Tolerant False Red Agave

This plant is found wild in dry woodland in the Mexican mountains. We grow it in our dry climate garden in dry shade under olive trees. Evergreen succulent rosettes some 90cm wide by 70cm tall, like a green leaved spineless agave, are bold and handsome all the year round.

$15.00 each

Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’

Siberian Bugloss

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.

1 for $10.00, 3 for $27.00

Brunnera macrophylla ‘Sea Heart’

Siberian Bugloss

‘Sea Heart’, a stunning new introduction, has strong textured heart shaped silver leaves with green edging and green veins. 50cm tall stems of blue for-get-me-not flowers are produced during late spring and early summer.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Brunnera macrophylla ‘Silver Heart’

Siberian Bugloss

‘Silver Heart’ is a wonderful new introduction with silver heart shaped leaves lightly veined green. The leaves are strongly textured and stand heat and humidity well. Blue for-get-me-not flowers are produced on 50cm tall stems during late spring and early summer.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Epimedium x versicolor ‘Sulphureum’

Sulphur Bishops Hat

An easily grown plant which will soon fill a good sized space in the shade, even dry shade when once established. Soft lemon yellow flowers are held well above the foliage in early spring. When established E. x versicolor is tolerant of some dryness.30cm by 30cm.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Euphorbia cyparissias

Cypriot 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

Francoa ramosa

Bridal Wreath

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.

$15.00 each

Galium odoratum

Sweet Woodruff, Sweet Scented Bedstraw

Sweet Woodruff, one of Vita Sackville-West’s favourite plants, makes a wonderful fragrant ground cover for a shady spot. Whorls of dark green lance shaped leaves clothe 20cm tall stems which are covered in frothy masses of small white flowers during spring and early summer.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Hakonechloa macra ‘All Gold’

Golden Temple Grass

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.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Hosta ‘Krossa Regal’

Giant Hosta Krossa Regal

A giant in all its parts ‘Krossa Regal’ is considered a classic amongst Hostas. Large blue-green wavy leaves form a handsome vase shaped mound some 33cm tall by 70cm wide. 150cm tall flower spikes are borne in summer. ‘Krossa Regal’ makes a great pot plant.

1 for $15.00, 3 for $42.00

Hosta ‘Orange Marmalade’

Orange Marmalade Hosta

‘Orange Marmalade’ has beautiful variegated foliage with deep green margins and rich gold centres. As the season progresses the golden centres mature to pure white.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Omphalodes cappadocica ‘Cherry Ingram’

Navel Wort

This long lived perennial with its deep sky blue for-get-me-not flowers over clumps of evergreen heart shaped leaves is a native of Turkish woodlands. It is happy in any lightly shaded spot which gets some extra watering during dry periods. 20cm tall by 30cm across.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

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

Medium to tall shrubs for larger impact and structure

Anisodontea ‘El Royo’

African Rose

This new variety of Anisodontea has large, for the genus, hibiscus like flowers which are rich pink during the warmer months and deepen to salmon-pink during colder periods.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Arctostaphylos densiflora ‘Howard McMinn’

Howard's Manzanita

This Manzanita can be kept clipped to a metre tall, or allowed to become a 2m shrub. Producing pure white lily-of-the-valley flowers during late winter spring. Rarely offered in Australia. Drought tolerant when established and will grow happily in sun or light shade.

1 for $15.00, 3 for $42.00

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi ‘Green Bay’

Green Bay Bearberry

Growing a mere 15cm tall but spreading up to 150cm, ‘Green Bay’ makes a dense carpet of small dark green leathery leaves. Nodding pink, lily-of-the-valley flowers are produced in late winter and early spring when the shrub has matured.

$15.00 each

Buddleja alternifolia ‘Argentea’

Argentea Butterfly Bush

I remember a beautifully grown plant of Buddleja alternifolia grown as standard in the walled garden at Cruden Farm. The arching willowy branches were densely foliaged and in full bloom and what pleasure it gave.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Buddleja ‘Buzz™ Midnight’

Midnight Buzz Butterfly Bush

This superb new small growing violet-black flowered Buddleja is part of the venerable English company, Thompson and Morgan's cutting edge breeding program.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Buddleja ‘Velvet Buzz’

These ‘Buzz’™ series are the first truly dwarf Buddlejas to be released on the Australian market. Suited to growing in pots as well as small gardens, it took ten years of dedicated and painstaking breeding work to develop these award winning plants.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Cytisus x praecox ‘Warminster’

Warminster Broom

One of the showiest of all spring flowering shrubs the Warminster Broom was given the coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit as long ago as 1933. It first cropped up in an English garden in 1867.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Cytisus x dallimorei ‘Lena’

A compact growing broom, sometimes sold as C. ‘Volcano’, with rich dark green leaves and dark green vertical stems. During spring and early summer C. ‘Lena’ is smothered with pea shaped flowers, ruby red and yellow. This is a fine small shrub for hot dry positions.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Deutzia gracilis

Graceful Deutzia

This beautiful little Japanese shrub smothers itself in fragrant white bells in late spring. The flowers are carried on arching branches. Best grown in a sunny spot which is watered during dry periods. Height 70-120cm width 60-120cm.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Deutzia scabra ‘Candidissima’

Native to Japan and China Deutzia scabra makes a 2 metre tall shrub clothed in handsome foliage. ‘Candidissima’, grown in western gardens since the 1869s carries large clusters of honey scented double white flowers on arching branches during late spring and early summer.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Euonymus alatus

Burning Bush

Shrubs from China and Japan don’t generally do well here at Lambley. The hot dry winds of summer are too much for them. The deciduous Euonymus alatus is an exception.

1 for $15.00, 3 for $42.00

Euphorbia mellifera

Shruby Spurge

Makes a magnificent evergreen foliage plant some two metres tall by two thirds as much wide. The large matt green, red edged leaves have a marked white central vein. In late winter showy clusters of reddish brown flowers are produced.

1 for $10.00, 3 for $27.00

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

Hypericum x hybrid ‘Rowallane’

This Hypericum cultivar is a chance seedling that was found in the 1940s in Rowallane Garden, now the headquarters of the National Trust in Northern Ireland.

$15.00 each

Philadelphus × virginalis ‘Natchez’

Natchez Orange Blossom

During late spring and early summer ‘Natchez’ carries large white, semi-double, orange blossom fragrant flowers on long arching wands.

1 for $15.00, 3 for $42.00

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

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

Spartium junceum

Weaver’s Broom

This tough plant as happy at the seaside as it is in cold inland gardens. Growing to 2 metres tall by near as much across it produces large fragrant yellow pea flowers on 45cm long terminal racemes for many months during late spring and summer.

1 for $12.50, 3 for $34.50

Viburnum plicatum ‘Mariesii’

This noble shrub was introduced into western gardens from Japan in 1879. Growing up to 3 metres tall and wide it has strong horizontally tiered branches. White flowers are held above the foliage during mid spring. An added bonus is the reddish purple autumn colour.

1 for $15.00, 3 for $42.00

Viburnum plicatum ‘Pink Beauty’

The flowers of this beautiful form turn pink as they age. Viburnum plicatum is native to China, Japan and Taiwan where it grows by the side of streams. One of the wonders of the late Stuart Rattle's Musk Farm where it thrived.

1 for $15.00, 3 for $42.00

Viburnum sargentii ‘Onodaga’

Viburnum sargentii hails from north-east Asia and was brought into western cultivation in 1892. ‘Onodaga’ was introduced to by the US National Arboretum in 1966. “Leaves emerge fine textured, velvety, and maroon, later turning green but retaining a maroon tinge.

1 for $15.00, 3 for $42.00

Sisyrinchium

Sisyrinchium striatum

Satin Flower

A member of the Iris family from Chile this plant is happy here in a sunny spot in the dry garden. S. striatum makes clumps of upright blue-green sword shaped leaves with stiff upright stems carrying soft lemon yellow flowers during late spring and early summer.

1 for $12.00, 3 for $33.00

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