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Campanula persicifolia
It is always surprising me, and always welcome, this graceful airy plant that comes up where you least expect it, without fuss, from last year's seed, and yet establishes itself as a short-term perennial wherever you want it.
The name 'peach-leaved bellflower' strikes me as particularly clunky for such a pretty thing. It just appears as a neat rosette of narrow (hence 'peach) leaves easy to recognize and usefully evergreen so you can find its clumps in winter. There are white, paler and darker and maybe even double varieties, but I love its basic china-blue cups, porcelain in texture, in generous spikes on their stems. They lean, but that's their style.
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