Jupiter's Beard on the hill

…or Centranthus ruber, has been creeping around the gardens here for years, looking great and flowering and continually coming back with little encouragement or even a drop of rain through the summer months, and this season it is especially happy – covering the slope at the front steps with it’s happy pink flowers – and after having it around for 12 years, now I find out the leaves and roots are even edible…nice.