Lambley Nursery Perennial Catalogue

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.

One of our best plants for shade, even dry shade when established. Francoa ramosa is the longest flowered of all the bridal wreaths. Long wands densely packed with showy white flowers are produced during summer and autumn over low mounds of evergreen foliage.

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.

An extraordinary plant, H. angustifolius makes 3 metre tall stems clothed in narrow dark green leaves. It looks more like a Lilium than anything else until an eruption of bright yellow sunflowers covers the whole in autumn. At its peak it startles visitors (and us).

This Hypericum cultivar is a chance seedling that was found in the 1940s in Rowallane Garden, now the headquarters of the National Trust in Northern Ireland.

One of the finest dwarf shrubs for a dry climate. This statice, to quote E.E. Lord, “..... will endure dry conditions and inland frosts alike”. Limonium peregrinum forms a low rounded evergreen shrub with leathery bright green leaves.

This long lived perennial with its deep sky blue for-get-me-not flowers over clumps of evergreen heart shaped leaves is a native of Turkish woodlands. It is happy in any lightly shaded spot which gets some extra watering during dry periods. 20cm tall by 30cm across.

Fountain like clumps of fine arching leaves are topped by a cloud of maroon midge-like flowers during autumn. Late in the season the foliage turns bronze red and finally to straw gold during winter.