Lambley Nursery Perennial Catalogue

Cotoneaster dammeri is one of the best of all evergreen ground covers. It makes a mat of small dark green leathery leaves and its prostrate stems root where they touch the soil. Its flowers are fragrant and during autumn and winter the bright red berries are showy.

This is one of the best forms of Italian Pencil Pine. It is very narrow in growth and very fast growing. Plants in our new Mediterranean garden have grown 2.5 metres tall in three years and they are already making a strong architectural statement.

Large lilac-mauve flowers are held in clusters in the leaf axils of the previous year’s wood and the effect is striking to see the branches, which can be up to 50cm or more long, covered in flowers.

Golden flowers with an orange cone. These new vegetatively propagated selections are much better than cheaper seed raised varieties making sturdier, bushier and freer flowering plants.

This is one of the best ground covers we grow as it makes handsome dense mats of evergreen leaves. Although all E. glaucus clones are low growing some have rather lax flower stems.

A new Sea Holly cultivar with silver metallic blue thimble-like flowers branching atop strong 90cm stems. Flowers from late Spring through Summer.

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.

This fine evergreen shade lover makes large rosettes of large crinkly light green leaves some 30cm tall by 60cm across. During spring 100-120cm tall stiff stems carry dozens of large bi-coloured pink flowers. Best in full shade even quite dry shade once established.

Double blooms in a soft violet-blue shade on a bushy mound of deeply cut green leaves. Flowering in summer for sun or part shade. Cut back after flowering 45 cm x 60 cm.

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.

Day lilies which repeat flower are always useful plants. Deep rich cranberry pink, flared flowers are produced, several to the stem, from mid spring until quite late in the autumn. I divide and replant dwarf day lilies every 3 or 4 years.

During summer and autumn whorls of long tubular orange flowers are produced on new season’s growth. It is drought tolerant when once established. Whilst the top may be cut back by frost this plant will come away from its roots when the weather warms up.