Lysimachia ciliata Firecracker


I've just bought this plant without knowing anything about it.  I bought it
because it's got purple leaves and I thought "Great, a purple leaved
perennial to go in my purple/orange with a bit of yellow in border".    It
was only when I got home that I read the catalogue description which is:

"A purple leaved loosestrife, offsetting pale yellow flowers far more
effectiviely than can the green-leaved type plant.  Makes a colony.
June-Sept.  0.7m."

It's the "makes a colony" part that bothers me.  I don't really know what
this means but it sounds ominous.  (I don't really know what clump forming
means in describing other plants either, but I do know that this is
supposed to be a desirable characteristic.)  Does anybody else have any
idea of what "makes a colony" means, is it likely to take over my border.

Louise English in southern England

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