{"id":105803,"date":"2019-04-05T22:42:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T15:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-butterfly-bush-thrives-in-london-letter\/"},"modified":"2019-04-05T23:05:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T16:05:25","slug":"the-butterfly-bush-thrives-in-london-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-butterfly-bush-thrives-in-london-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"The butterfly bush thrives in London | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nGavin Weightman responds to a column by Adrian Chiles about buddleiaSo Adrian Chiles (G2, 4 April) has noticed buddleia bushes growing out of derelict buildings and judges them to signify industrial neglect. He suggests the plant does not grow so much in London because land is too expensive. In fact buddleia grows everywhere in London, sprouting from the tops of many buildings that are not abandoned and forming great thickets along railway lines. It is also a prized garden plant, attracting a great variety of insects, and is commonly called \u201cthe butterfly bush\u201d. And though it is from China and was brought to Europe by a Frenchman, Linnaeus named it after the Rev Adam Buddle of Hadleigh rectory, Essex, in honour of observations he had made of local plants. Buddle never saw the butterfly bush, as he died more than a century before it was introduced in the last decade of Victoria\u2019s reign.Gavin WeightmanLondon\u2022 Join the debate \u2013 email guardian.letters@theguardian.com Continue reading…
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