Some biennials are worth the wait

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      I've just spotted an insect on one of the pics. I wonder what it is.
       
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        Catanche should be a perennial rather than a biennial, seems to survive a few years here.
         
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          I'm hoping it will. It can stay as long as it likes. Short lived perennial treated as a biennial, apparently.
           
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