Taiwan 2025 - New Taipei Garden, Purple Spider Flower with Rabbit-Eared Thistle

I've visited and photographed the beautifully-manicured garden near "our" New Taipei apartment so much already that there's very little else to post.  Thus, while there aren't many, this time I tried to focus on new subjects.  In the pic above I noticed the thistle in the near-background, which was new to us since it has rabbit ears...

...and decided that since the background is a little busy, here's the purple flower isolated against a black background: