It behaves itself in all weathers and so far hasn't outgrown its space in the garden. I'm sorry that I don't know its name, but it is possibly Hebe pinguifolia. This is an upright compact flax which I have growing in several places in the garden. The stripes look as if they have been hand painted, and are in colours of olive green and dusky rose pink. Some leaves are coloured in two halves.
Plants grow to just over one metre, and the leaves stay stiff and erect.
I think this flax is possibly called 'Maori Maiden'. It's waist high and from a distance looks like the colours of a sunset. Close up the stripes look like an ethnic weaving pattern. Some are green and some are more a buff or beige colour, depending on how much sun the shrub gets. My pepper tree seems to be quite slow growing, and I rather hope it's happy to stay being a pepper shrub.