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This summer of 23/24 has been a great season for Grass LIly; they've been coming up everywhere! - I've been seeing them in places where I've never seen them before. In this case there were at least three specimens, two in bloom, coming up within the drip-line of a small/medium sized eucalyptus, in the midst of hard-mown 'parkland'; they had escaped being cut off just above the roots by the mower-men, only because a couple of low-hanging branches had prevented the mower-man from going straight over this bit of ground... this time around. I have no great hopes of their long-term survival; the branches will be trimmed and then the area where they are growing will be mowed flat and/or drenched with herbicide. Update, 6/4/24: I was in the same location today; the entire area where they were growing, within the drip-line of the tree, has been drenched with herbicide and every one of those lovely Grass Lilies is withering, wilting and dying. Ah, our Clean Green and Sustainable City Council in action, eliminating nasty natives from the parkscape whenever they DARE to appear.