Lambley Nursery Perennial Catalogue

Nearly everyone who has seen this plant flowering at Lambley wants one. A summer flowering South African bulb that produces 120cm tall strong stems carrying beuatiful white bell flowers. We plant it where it gets watered in summer. Sun. 120cm x 40cm.

This beautiful small tree or large shrub is endemic to the islands of Sicily and Sardinia where it grows on poor stony soils. In our garden it has made a handsome weeping shrub some 2 metres tall by as much across although it will eventually grow taller.

There used to be a fine planting of this tough drought tolerant shrub in the St Kilda botanic gardens where the weeping silver leaved branches covered with white flowers made a beautiful contrast to the large dark blue spikes of several plants of Pride of Madeira, Echium fastu

Makes a neat, low, rounded evergreen shrub with silvery grey leaves. Large warm yellow flowers in spring. Needs a hot sunny spot and very little water.

An intergeneric cross between a Tiarella and a Heuchera which during spring produces large, intensely red, deeply lobed foliage. In summer the foliage mellows to red tinted olive green.

This native grass selection is a rampant, weed suppressor for soil erosion work, roadside plantings, slopes and median strips. It is far too vigorous for ordinary garden use as it will overwhelm any other plant.

Beautiful ling tailed purple snap dragons are arranged in threes around the stem and look like birds in flight. The epithet triornithophora means “to bear three birds”.

This new catmint is much neater than older varieties making a tidy mound of grey leaves topped for most of the late spring summer and autumn with lavender-blue flowers. It will grow 30cm tall by 40cm across. Trim spent flowers from time to time to extend the season.

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This new Rudbeckia, with its warm golden yellow blackish brown centred flowers, is used widely in European and North American landscape plantings.

‘Thundercloud’ is a terrific foliage plant. Mature plants make 20cm tall by 30cm wide tidy mounds of dissected blue-green leaves. The whole plant is covered by a cloud of white flowers in summer. Full sun.