RE: Libertia peregrinans

As a result of Tim's question I thought I'd check on my clumps of L. 
peregrinans. The older clump is showing flower stalks with seed pods on 
about 50% of the older fans, but no flower stalks on the newer fans that 
have arisen from recent runners. As there are well over 100 fans in a space 
around 2 ft by 4 ft and each flower stalk has multiple flowers on it, there 
would have been several hundred flowers this year. There's hope yet Tim! 
Interestingly mine have leaves that are mainly green with the orange 
confined to the mid rib on most of the leaves. Only a very few are close to 
being orange all over. Conditions are shady for over half the day, dampish 
soil and they never get fed. The smaller clump (transplanted from the 
original one a few months ago) gets sun for most of the day, better quality 
soil and shows more orange in the leaves. This had some flowers too on the 
larger fans this year.

Tim Dutton
"Raindrops", Main Road North, Kaitoke, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
(Latitude 41? 5' South, Longitude 175? 10' East)


-----Original Message-----
From:	Tim Longville [SMTP:tim.longville@BTinternet.com]
Sent:	Monday, December 31, 2001 10:14 PM
To:	medit-plants
Subject:	Libertia peregrinans

 << File: ATT00001.htm >> 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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