Lambley Nursery Perennial Catalogue

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.

An excellent garden or pot specimen plant with large 4-5cm long bell flowers in light shade. Elongated tubular mauve bells cover the plant through late spring and into the summer. Repeat flowering if regularly deadheaded. 30 x 40cm.

A distinctive Japanese sedge with arching green leaves. Carex oshimensis 'Evergreen' is beautiful in a pot as well as making a dense groundcover. It will grow in a difficult courtyard and small city garden if well irrigated.

Caryopteris are tough drought tolerant deciduous shrubs which, happily for us, flower for a long time during late summer and autumn. ‘Lisaura’ is the best of the gold leaf forms.

Smothered in deep rose flowers, each petal having a maroon blotch, during late spring and early summer this tough evergreen shrub is hardy to hot summers, frosty winters and drought when once established. Happy in any sunny well drained spot. 120cm by 120cm.

Named “sweet” because of its wonderful honey fragrance. We grow it on a trellis in our double borders where, although cut back to 60cm during winter, it covers an area about 2 metres in height and 4-5 metres in width.

I was one of the first Australians to see a blue Corydalis when I visited the Edinburg Botanica gardens 40 years ago. Corydalis reflexa was so rare that the gardens had it under lock and key in a no go area in the gardens.

The best Delphinium for Australian conditions. Soundly perennial, self supporting and branching, this plant is in flower with us for 20 weeks every year. It starts to flower during November.

I’ve grown E. ritro ssp. ruthenicus for many years including in the dry garden where the conditions are very suitable. Echinops ruthenicus 'Platinum Blue' has steel blue golf ball sized blooms that sit on top of stiff white stems which are clothed by silver green cut leaves.

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.

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.

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.