We have two varieties of tree peonies for sale to online customers only. The plants are a really good size with large roots. They must be planted as soon as they are received. Shipping as bare rooted with guaranteed safe delivery.
The hybrids of Peonia rockii are amongst the most spectacular of all tree peonies. ‘Purple Rockii’ has huge purple flowers with the characteristic black blotch at the base of each petal. This vigorous variety will grow, over time, two metres tall by two metres wide shrub. Read more about Paeonia ‘Purple Rockii’
This plant is just as tough as Pelargonium reniforme, the other frost hardy South African pelargonium we grow in our Dry Garden. The main difference is in the colour of the flowers. P. sidioides has dark chocolate maroon almost black flowers. Read more about Pelargonium sidoides
Penstemons are gardening mainstays. Frost-hardy, evergreen and long-flowering, from the showy hybrids to the tough and hardy species forms, there is literally one suited for every garden in Australia. Read more about Penstemons (Beardtongues)
One of my favourite Penstemon with the loveliest blue-mauve white throated flowers beautifully poised on long pedicels. Flowering as it does from late spring until winter it has been a mainstay of our double borders for many years. Read more about Penstemon ‘Alice Hindley’
Penstemons are among the most robust of garden plants showing excellent frost and drought tolerance. ‘Chester Scarlet’ is a medium sized evergreen perennial with large leaves and erect panicles of deep crimson – scarlet flowers. Flowering summer- autumn. Read more about Penstemon ‘Chester Scarlet’
An old vigorous variety raised in Switzerland in the 1930s, now nearing its 100th birthday. “A glowing shade of red...” narrowly tubular flowers are a joy from late spring until winter. A particularly long lived cultivar P. Read more about Penstemon ‘Firebird’
Bred in the 1920’s and still one of the best of its kind, Penstemon ‘Garnet’ has been a stalwart of our double flower borders for at least ten years. Read more about Penstemon ‘Garnet’
Like all of these hybrid Penstemon this variety is very tough and drought tolerant. This clone is one of the tallest of its kind growing up to 120cm. The top third of this carries charming lilac pink, white-throated tubular flowers. 120cm x 90cm. Read more about Penstemon ‘Pink Cloud’
This Penstemon has bright reddish-purple flowers over glossy leaves, from spring until winter. It is an evergreen plant, needing only a winter tidy up, and a sunny spot. 70cm x 70cm. Read more about Penstemon ‘Purple Bedder’
Penstemon ‘Thorn’ is an upright perennial with loose panicles of tubular white flowers tinged with deep pink at the tips of the lobes Flowering late summer early autumn. Evergreen. Frost tolerant and only needing occasional watering in the hottest of summer periods. Read more about Penstemon ‘Thorn’
One of the best white flowering perennials for use in a border. Penstemons are such tough generous plants flowering their hearts out for so long that we can take them for granted. They seem to need replacing every 4 or 5 years. Read more about Penstemon ‘White Bedder’
The Phlomis include some of the best evergreen shrubs for Australian gardens. Frost and drought hardy throughout Australia. Read more about Jerusalem Sage
This new import is, to my mind, the most beautiful in foliage of all the Phlomis. At Lambley it has made a handsome, evergreen shrub a metre or more tall by nearly as much across in a year. Read more about Phlomis ‘Lemon Blush’
The Phlomis include some of the best evergreen shrubs for Australian gardens. This is a superb species with rich green leaves. Deep egg yolk yellow flowers open from russet-olive buds in whorls along the vertical flower stems. P. Read more about Phlomis longifolia
Prunellas are very useful groundcovers for a shaded spot in the garden where they will make mats of quite large deep green slightly rough leaves. During spring and spasmodically later spikes of deep pink hooded flowers sit well above the foliage. Read more about Prunella grandiflora ‘Bella Deep Pink’
We have lined a broad brick path, which leads to a beautiful old garden seat, with ‘Mozart’ which is a fairly new variety. I think it is by far the best rosemary I have ever seen. The glossy dark green leaves, on upright stems, make a perfect foil for the deep blue flowers. Read more about Rosmarinus officinalis ‘Mozart’
This fine South African Salvia makes a handsome, dense evergreen metre tall shrub well dressed in silvery green leaves. The flowers, which are produced in waves throughout spring summer and autumn, are yellow when they first open but soon turn a unique golden brown. Read more about Salvia africana-lutea
A fast growing and drought-tolerant evergreen groundcover with aromatic silver-grey foliage. Growth is in horizontal layers topped with lavender blue flowers in spring. Read more about Salvia ‘Bees Bliss’
One of the most stunning new imports, S. ’Petite Blanc’ makes a dwarf, neat round evergreen shrub. During summer the dark green foliage is a perfect foil for the ivory white billy buttons. Read more about Santolina ‘Petit Blanc’
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’
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’
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’
Prunellas are very useful groundcovers for a shaded spot in the garden where they will make mats of quite large deep green slightly rough leaves. During spring and spasmodically later spikes of deep pink hooded flowers sit well above the foliage. Read more about Prunella grandiflora ‘Bella Deep Pink’
Arbutus canariensis Canary Islands Madrone This special tree has attractive evergreen foliage and produces large panicles of white bell-like flowers throughout the year and is a native of the Canary Islands. Read more about Arbutus canariensis
From the dry western areas of the USA beautiful in all its parts from the burnished copper-bronze twisted trunks to its wonderful large grey-green leaves and exquisite lily-of-the-valley flowers. Thoroughly drought tolerant when once established. Read more about Arctostaphylos manzanita ‘St Helena’
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. Read more about Buddleja alternifolia ‘Argentea’
Cistus are amongst the toughest of all evergreen shrubs. I’ve seen ‘Alan Fradd’ thriving in a planting alongside a freeway leading into Melbourne where the only water it gets falls from the sky. Read more about Cistus x purpureus ‘Alan Fradd’
Golden Twig Dogwood is grown of its bright glossy yellow-green winter stems. A suckering deciduous shrub it is best planted where the winter sun can catch it. Not particular to soils it will grow happily in quite boggy conditions. Read more about Cornus sericea ‘Flaviramea’
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’
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’
This new import is, to my mind, the most beautiful in foliage of all the Phlomis. At Lambley it has made a handsome, evergreen shrub a metre or more tall by nearly as much across in a year. Read more about Phlomis ‘Lemon Blush’
The Phlomis include some of the best evergreen shrubs for Australian gardens. This is a superb species with rich green leaves. Deep egg yolk yellow flowers open from russet-olive buds in whorls along the vertical flower stems. P. Read more about Phlomis longifolia
DROUGHT TOLERANT Teucrium marum makes a dense twiggy grey foliaged little shrublet covered in summer with masses of magenta flowers on short spikes. Read more about Teucrium marum
This Wood Sage is one of the best evergreen groundcovers for shade, even fairly dry shade that we know. It makes dense mats of rich green felted leaves with white scalloping along the edges. Read more about Teucrium scorodonia ‘Crispum Marginatum’
This thyme was imported from Beth Chatto’s wonderful nursery in the U.K. Making a prostrate carpet of tiny glossy dark green leaves it is covered with showy rose pink flowers held in clusters above the plant during spring. Read more about Thymus longicaulis subsp. chaubardii
