This superb new small growing violet-black flowered Buddleja is part of the venerable English company, Thompson and Morgan's cutting edge breeding program. Read more about Buddleja ‘Buzz™ Midnight’
These ‘Buzz’™ series are the first truly dwarf Buddlejas to be released on the Australian market. Suited to growing in pots as well as small gardens, it took ten years of dedicated and painstaking breeding work to develop these award winning plants. Read more about Buddleja ‘Velvet Buzz’
One of the showiest of all spring flowering shrubs the Warminster Broom was given the coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit as long ago as 1933. It first cropped up in an English garden in 1867. Read more about Cytisus x praecox ‘Warminster’
This beautiful little Japanese shrub smothers itself in fragrant white bells in late spring. The flowers are carried on arching branches. Best grown in a sunny spot which is watered during dry periods. Height 70-120cm width 60-120cm. Read more about Deutzia gracilis
Native to Japan and China Deutzia scabra makes a 2 metre tall shrub clothed in handsome foliage. ‘Candidissima’, grown in western gardens since the 1869s carries large clusters of honey scented double white flowers on arching branches during late spring and early summer. Read more about Deutzia scabra ‘Candidissima’
Shrubs from China and Japan don’t generally do well here at Lambley. The hot dry winds of summer are too much for them. The deciduous Euonymus alatus is an exception. Read more about Euonymus alatus
Makes a magnificent evergreen foliage plant some two metres tall by two thirds as much wide. The large matt green, red edged leaves have a marked white central vein. In late winter showy clusters of reddish brown flowers are produced. Read more about Euphorbia mellifera
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. Read more about Hypericum x hybrid ‘Rowallane’
Salvia ‘Phyllis Fancy’ is a tough drought tolerant evergreen shrub flowering from midsummer until winter. The long arching sprays of violet and white flowers are very telling and there is good separation between flowers and foliage. Read more about Salvia ‘Phyllis Fancy’
This tough plant as happy at the seaside as it is in cold inland gardens. Growing to 2 metres tall by near as much across it produces large fragrant yellow pea flowers on 45cm long terminal racemes for many months during late spring and summer. Read more about Spartium junceum
This noble shrub was introduced into western gardens from Japan in 1879. Growing up to 3 metres tall and wide it has strong horizontally tiered branches. White flowers are held above the foliage during mid spring. An added bonus is the reddish purple autumn colour. Read more about Viburnum plicatum ‘Mariesii’
The flowers of this beautiful form turn pink as they age. Viburnum plicatum is native to China, Japan and Taiwan where it grows by the side of streams. One of the wonders of the late Stuart Rattle's Musk Farm where it thrived. Read more about Viburnum plicatum ‘Pink Beauty’
