The creamy white cup shaped flowers of this Magnolia are splashed with a hint of maroon, giving it one of it's common names, 'Port Wine Magnolia'. The flowers make for a visually beautiful shrub or small tree... Read more about Magnolia figo
This intensely fragrant evergreen Magnolia hails from the western montane forests of China. It makes an evergreen shrub some 3 metres tall by 2 metres across. Read more about Magnolia laevifolia
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Unlike all other Mandevillas, this one tolerates frost. I’ve grown this vigorous climber on an old shearing shed here at Lambley for 30 years. Read more about Mandevilla laxa
This most beautiful of all the feather grasses is a hybrid between Miscanthus sinensis and M. transmorrisonensis. From early in the new year until winter arching feathers on slightly arching leafy stems gives ‘Fallingwater’ elegance, movement, and form. Read more about Miscanthus ‘Fallingwater’
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All of our plants are offered in a 10cm diameter pot unless otherwise indicated. Plants grown here are frost hardy to at least minus 5C unless stated otherwise. Many are hardy to much colder temperatures. They may be evergreen or deciduous, or herbaceous and overwintered by being cut back to near pot level.Read more about Standard Pot Size
This wonderful plant has beget many named offspring from ugly dwarfs to reasonably bearable semi-dwarfs. None of the progeny are as beautiful as their parent. I am a huge fan of this plant. Read more about Nandina domestica
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A tall, bushy catmint with upright spikes of soft pink flowers opening from dusky purple calyces. It will flower from early summer and, if spent flowers are removed, will continue flowering until late autumn. Read more about Nepeta ‘Dawn to Dusk’
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This very neat and tidy plant makes a wonderful border; it is especially beautiful when grown in front of roses. It has an obliging growth habit as new flower stems arch over and hide the older spent flower stems so that it doesn’t need dead heading during the growing season. Read more about Nepeta ‘Dropmore’
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‘Walker’s Low’ catmint has been growing in our double borders for a dozen years or so. Strong vertical clothed in greyish leaves, carry spikes of lavender-blue flowers of a similar colour to N. Read more about Nepeta racemosa ‘Walkers Low’
This is the catmint featured in the English coffee table gardening books. We grow it in front of a stone wall in a bed which is never watered. It is a mainstay of the gardens surrounding our home. Read more about Nepeta ‘Six Hills Giant’
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This long lived perennial with its deep sky blue forget-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. Read more about Omphalodes cappadocica
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From a very tough evergreen mat of dark green leaves, stiff, twiggy, leafy stems carry heads of long-lasting vibrant purple-pink flowers from summer to autumn. Read more about Origanum laevigatum ‘Herrenhausen’
The ornamental origanums are not used enough in gardens and shouldn't be confused with the culinary forms. Originally from Greece and Turkey, they are drought tolerant and take both our hot summer sun and our very cold winters. Read more about Origanum ‘Rosenkuppel’
“A notable and useful hardy hybrid’ states G.S. Thomas in his notable and useful book Ornamental Shrubs Climbers and Bamboos. Read more about Osmanthus x burkwoodii
"One of the choicest of evergreen shrubs, bushy and well furnished with tiny dark green leaves which seem specially selected to show off the tubular, pure white small flowers which are arrayed along every twig.” - G.S. Thomas. Read more about Osmanthus delavayi
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. Happy in any sunny spot it is quite tolerant of dry periods. Read more about Panicum virgatum ‘Rubrum’
We have grown this in our garden for fifteen years or more and it has consistently made a terrific display of autumn colour turning crimson, pink and lemon during April and May. Read more about Panicum virgatum ‘Autumn Glory’
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This is totally different in both leaf colour and outline to the other Panicums that we’ve listed in previous catalogues. Panicum ‘Heavy Metal’ makes clumps of stiff upright stems clothed in blue leaves. Read more about Panicum virgatum ‘Heavy Metal’
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It’s one of the great joys of late autumn here at Lambley when the Virginia Creeper sets the vegetable garden paling fence on fire as the green, five fingered leaves turn an intense red. Read more about Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Pelargonium reniforme is one of an interesting and beautiful group of frost hardy South African Pelargoniums. It’s been growing in our dry garden for almost three decades and has performed so well we have planted another large patch by the side of a gravel path. Read more about Pelargonium reniforme
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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
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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)
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’
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. Read more about Penstemon ‘Firebird’
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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’
‘Pink Cloud’ is one of the tallest of its kind growing up to 120cm. The top third of this carries showy bright pink, white-throated tubular flowers. 120cm x 90cm. Evergreen. Sun. One of the best Penstemons we have ever grown. Read more about Penstemon ‘Pink Cloud’
I sometimes encounter plants labelled in this country in error as 'Purple Bedder', but this great favourite cultivar has been grown from the genuine strain of this Penstemon which has superior bright reddish-purple flowers over glossy leaves, from spring until winter. Read more about Penstemon ‘Purple Bedder’
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Very different in growth habit from most Penstemon grown in Australia, P. barbatus makes basal rosettes of glossy fresh green leaves. 100cm tall spires carry from top to bottom hundreds of good- sized, scarlet-red, tubular flowers. Read more about Penstemon barbatus ‘Norgate’s Scarlet’
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With a delightful olde worlde cottage garden aesthetic, Penstemon ‘Thorn’ is an upright perennial with panicles of tubular white flowers tinged with deep pink at the tips of the lobes. It blooms from late spring through summer into autumn. Evergreen. Read more about Penstemon ‘Thorn’
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One for fans of the Bee Gees and certainly flamboyant in colour, this Penstemon is an easily grown sun loving evergreen perennial with few wants except dead heading and the removal of old spent stems in mid spring. Sun and some summer watering sees them perform at their best. Read more about Penstemon ‘Maurice Gibbs’
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Penstemons are easily grown sun loving perennials with few wants except dead heading and the removal of old spent stems in mid-spring. Penstemon ‘Mother of Pearl’ has fabulous flowers, pale mauve blue, blush and white with purple internal veining. 60 x 60cm Read more about Penstemon ‘Mother of Pearl’
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'Rock Candy Ruby' is a new dwarf growing variety of this Californian species which will produce showy ruby-pink tubular flowers from spring until late autumn on 30cm tall leafy stems. Read more about Penstemon barbatus ‘Rock Candy Ruby’
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'Rock Candy Pink' is a new dwarf growing variety of this Californian species which will produce showy light-pink tubular flowers from spring until late autumn on 30cm tall leafy stems. Read more about Penstemon barbatus ‘Rock Candy Pink’
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'Rock Candy Blue' is a new dwarf growing variety of this Californian species which will produce showy bluish-red tubular flowers from spring until late autumn on 30cm tall leafy stems. Read more about Penstemon barbatus ‘Rock Candy Blue’
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This species of Penstemon has proven itself to be very tough. It is the only one which has found a place in our Dry Garden where it provides a wonderful spray of colour in the toughest of hot weather. Much-loved by our resident New Holland Honeyeaters as a source of nectar. Read more about Penstemon barbatus ‘Salmoneus’
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This new variety of the well known species has been awarded a Fleuroselect Gold Medal, one of Europe’s highest awards. Growing only half the height of the species it is well suited to small gardens or the front of the flower border. Read more about Penstemon barbatus ‘Twizzle’
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I've grown this species from the Mexican states of Pueblo and Oaxaca for 25 years. It has got by with no watering at all these last few drought years. From a woody base metre tall stems carry red flowers with a hint of salmon, during the warmer months. Read more about Penstemon isophyllus
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A small growing Penstemon ideal for the rock garden making an evergreen shrub 30cm tall by 40cm wide. It has a profusion of orange tubular flowers for up to two months during late spring and early summer. Read more about Penstemon pinifolius
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This species is native to northern Mexico, southern Arizona and New Mexico where it grows in Ponderosa Pine forests or on rocky slopes. Best suited to a rock garden it makes 15cm tall and 30cm wide plant. The thin leaves are like pine needles hence the specific name. Read more about Penstemon pinifolius ‘Mersea Yellow’
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We grew plants of this easy to grow species from seed collected in Coconino County in Arizona (the Grand Canyon is in this county). It produces its 40cm tall, tightly packed stems of mauve-blue flowers for much of the warmer months. Read more about Penstemon virgatus subsp. virgatus
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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’