Libertia peregrinans

Thanks to Moira and Diane for the info. Reassuring to know that it isn't just me/my conditions!
 
I'll (a) compose my soul in patience (or try to), (b) try lifting a clump and confining it in a pot or trough or somesuch: sounds as though root-confinement might encourage it to choose flowering as a fair alternative to conquering the world by spreading.... Worth a try, at least.
 
Here it spreads quite vigorously (I must have a dozen clumps of various sizes and must have given away as many more and that's in half a dozen years or so) but I'm the sort of  (self-justifying description) 'cheerfully improvising' gardener who (usually...) quite enjoys it when it pops up somewhere unexpected (though separating a couple of years ago the mutual full nelsons it and a clump of I. wattii had got themselves into wasn't one of my favourite jobs).
 
I agree the colour isn't easy to describe - perhaps because it isn't one colour but a 'wash' of related tones. Well, it is here. Very little green in my conditions but each clump offers a (slightly different) range of browns and yellows and golds, depending I guess on relative age of clump and particular conditions in which it's growing?
 
Tim
(looking out of the window at a bright white Isle of Man on a bright blue horizon)
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