‘Daydream’ carries its large bright pink drumstick flowers on stiff 30cm tall stems for many months during spring and summer. Removing spent flowers will help prolong the floral display. Best grown in sunny spot and given a fortnightly soak during dry spells. Read more about Dreameria PBR ‘Daydream’
‘Dream Clouds’ carries white drumstick flowers on stiff 30cm tall stems for many months during spring and summer. Removing spent flowers will help prolong the floral display. Best grown in sunny spot and given a fortnightly soak during dry spells. Read more about Dreameria PBR ‘Dream Clouds’
‘Dream Weaver’ carries its large mulberry-purple drumstick flowers on stiff 30cm tall stems for many months during spring and summer. Removing spent flowers will help prolong the floral display. Best grown in sunny spot and given a fortnightly soak during dry spells. Read more about Dreameria PBR ‘Dream Weaver’
‘Dreamland’ carries its bright light pink drumstick flowers on stiff 30cm tall stems for many months during spring and summer. Removing spent flowers will help prolong the floral display. Best grown in sunny spot and given a fortnightly soak during dry spells. Read more about Dreameria PBR ‘Dreamland’
'Sweet Dreams' carries softer pink drumstick flowers on stiff 30cm tall stems for many months during spring and summer. Removing spent flowers will help prolong the floral display. Best grown in sunny spot and given a fortnightly soak during dry spells. Read more about Dreameria PBR ‘Sweet Dreams’
This has been growing in our dry climate garden for ten years or more. The flowers, a metallic blue thimble, are circled by a metallic blue ruff, as intricate as a snowflake. This Sea Holly has interesting evergreen foliage, much cut and two toned green and silver. Read more about Eryngium bourgatii ‘Oxford Blue’
This Australian release of this fine cultivar has caused great excitement. ‘Blue Haze’ is similar to E. ‘Copton Ash’ in habit and flower but is a neater plant and it’s not prone to the fasciation that mars ‘Copton Ash’ sometimes. Read more about Euphorbia ‘Blue Haze’
This new Lambley bred Euphorbia has a neat dwarf habit with abundant lime green flower heads opening from reddish buds. It will be happy in any sunny or lightly shaded spot. Drought tolerant when once established. 30cm tall by as much across. Read more about Euphorbia x martinii ‘Ascot Liliput’ PBR
This Lambley introduction is one of the finest variegated Euphorbias available throughout Europe and the United States. Very different in effect from E. ‘Tassie Tiger’, E. ‘Ascot Rainbow’, has soft gold and blue-green leaves with red and pink tonings during cold weather. Read more about Euphorbia x martinii ‘Ascot Rainbow’ PBR
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. Read more about Forsythia ‘Gold Clusters’
All of our plants are offered in a 10cm diameter pot unless otherwise indicated. Plants grown here are frost hardy to at least minus 5C unless stated otherwise. Many are hardy to much colder temperatures. They may be evergreen or deciduous, or herbaceous and overwintered by being cut back to near pot level.Read more about Standard Pot Size
Many plants tolerate shade but may not flower freely in that position. Heucheras have such dynamic and interesting foliage that they make up for the lack of flowers with their extraordinarily diverse colours and textures. Recent breeding work has brought some startling new cultivars to the fore. Read more about CORAL BELLS
NEW Heucheras are spectacular foliage plants. Scalloped leaves are glowing gold when they emerge in early spring. They soften to amber and peach as the season progresses. Read more about Heuchera ‘Caramel’
The leaves of this stunning plant change from peach to gold to champagne-gold. An added touch is the soft silver sheen on each leaf. Maroon stems carry light peach bells for many months. Best grown in a moist well drained spot in light to medium shade. Read more about Heuchera ‘Champagne’
Evergreen and fast growing it soon makes a good sized clump. Small, white bells are carried on 30cm stems during late spring and early summer. Happy in a lightly shaded spot which isn’t allowed to dry out it also makes a wonderful pot plant. Read more about Heuchera ‘Forever Purple’
Evergreen and fast growing it soon makes a good sized clump. Small, white bells are carried on 30cm stems during late spring and early summer. Happy in a lightly shaded spot which isn’t allowed to dry out it also makes a wonderful pot plant. Read more about Heuchera ‘Forever Red’
A new one for us, this Heuchera features a very distinctive and captivating colour with dark rose petals speckled with lighter pink spots. Read more about Heuchera ‘Midnight Rose’
The evocatively named 'Obsidian' produces vigorous clumps of dark purple-burgundy almost black foliage, the whole topped with cream flowers on dark 45cm tall stems during late spring and summer. A wonderful contrast plant with some of the more vivid colours. Read more about Heuchera ‘Obsidian’
‘Pretty Pistacio’ is one of the largest and most handsome of the new Heuchera varieties. 10cm wide leaves are chartreuse in early spring mellowing to lime green during summer. Hundreds of pink bells are carried on 60cm tall stems during late spring and summer. Read more about Heuchera ‘Pretty Pistachio’
This new distinct variety forms a dense mound of large, bright rose-purple leaves each with striking deep charcoal veining. Deep purple stems, some 50cm tall, carry rosy pink bells held in deep purple calyces. Read more about Heuchera ‘Wild Rose’
A hybrid between the closely related genera Heuchera and Tiarella with all the virtues. During spring and early summer a myriad soft pink flowers are held on thin vertical stems. 'Hopscotch' will grow in areas with humid summers. Foliage mound 20cm tall by 40cm across. Read more about Heucherella ‘Hopscotch’
Frothy masses of white flowers are held over startlingly beautiful foliage mounds. Leaves are reddish brown with a lime green edge that darkens in the colder weather. Read more about Heucherella ‘Solar Eclipse’
A hybrid between the closely related genera Heuchera and Tiarella Heucherella ‘Tapestry’ is the recipient of the prestigious Award of Garden Merit of the Royal Horticultural Society. It forms a luxuriant mound of “sage green, brown and chestnut leaves”. Read more about Heucherella ‘Tapestry’
First introduced to English gardens from Syria prior to 1596 the Rose of Sharon is actually a native of China and was more than likely brought to the Levant via the Silk Road. Read more about Hibiscus syriacus ‘Elfin Rose’
Forming a solid wall of foliage when hedged, this privet is used exclusively in parts of the US instead of fencing. We have used it extensively here at Lambley for its fast growth and drought resistance. Read more about Ligustrum vulgare
Intense true blue flowers smother the mat of dark green leaves during spring. Intolerant of soils with a high pH it will grow happily in any other sunny, well drained, humus rich spot and, at least here at Lambley, it tolerates drought pretty well. 20cm x 60cm. Read more about Lithodora diffusa ‘Grace Ward’
‘Heaven Scent’, a cross between M. liliifolia and M. veitchii, carries a profusion tulip shaped flowers, mid-pink with a dark stripe on the exterior and an almost pure white inside. Read more about Magnolia ‘Heaven Scent’
Magnolia x loebneri, a hybrid between two white flowered Japanese species, M. kobus and M. stellata, was first crossed by the German horticulturist Max Loebner during the first years of the 20th century.
Almost identical in its grey leaves and ethereal mauve flowers to Nepeta ‘Six Hills Giant’ but the habit of this plant makes it so different and so desirable and is heavily favoured by landscapers. It is very neat, upright and tidy in growth not at all lax. Read more about Nepeta ‘Dropmore’
Walkers Low catmint has been growing in our double borders for a dozen years or so. Stiff upright stems, clothed in greyish leaves, carry spikes of lavender-blue flowers of a similar colour to N. Read more about Nepeta racemosa ‘Walkers Low’
This is the catmint featured in the English coffee table gardening books. Sadly a second rate plant is still being sold as this in Australia. We grow it in front of a stone wall in a bed that is never watered. Read more about Nepeta ‘Six Hills Giant’
