purple periwinkle

[OT from cottage renovations]

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we're all used to Periwinkle.  it's all over the Grove, a ground cover that though exotic can be tolerated for its pretty little flowers.  it's so familiar it even has a colour named after it, though sometimes it comes in white:

   

most gardens in which it can be found have both. 

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Zöe Wadsworth Park

there's one patch of it, though, that comes in a shade always favoured by an eccentric great aunt:

   
Vinca minor

I am incapable of going past it without looking out for these splashes of purple, and when I see them I am reminded of her.  it is comforting, in an odd sort of way.