Lambley Nursery Perennial Catalogue

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 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.

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.

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.

'Pearls Ginga Way’ is a new and much improved cut flower variety of Gypsophila with a stronger, more sturdy habit and larger, fully double pure white flowers.

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.

A newly imported evergreen making a neat, tidy shrub well clothed with silver leaves. Small lemon yellow flowers are held in clusters above the foliage mound during summer and autumn. A tough, sun loving, drought tolerant plant.

Frothy masses of white flowers are held over startlingly beautiful foliage mounds. Leaves are reddish brown with a lime green edge.