Lambley Nursery Perennial Catalogue

In the late 1970s Peter Dummer, then a propagator at the famous Hillier’s Nursery in the UK, raised five seedlings from a deliberate cross he had made between C. obovatus and C. coggygria ‘Velvet Cloak’. He named one of the seedlings ‘Grace’ after his wife.

Plants which thrive in dry shade are few and far between. Cotyledon ‘Silver Shadow’ with its intensely silver white succulent leaves lightens an otherwise gloomy corner between and under two cypresses in the dry garden. 50cm x 60cm.

A beautiful deciduous shrub growing 1-2 m high and 1-2m wide for better watered parts of the garden. Flowers of soft pink to white are borne on upright arching branches. Will grow in full sun to part shade.

This Turkish species carries allium like heads of deep crimson flowers on 30cm tall stems over low clumps of needle-like foliage. Beautiful in the systems beds in the Chelsea Physic garden. 20cm tall by 15cm across.

The best of its kind with spherical flower heads, steel-blue in bud opening to large balls of powdery mauve-blue when in full flower. Bold divided foliage, stiff vertical stems and the drumstick flower heads give this plant great architectural strength.

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.