蜜芽传媒

Brought from the edge of China a hundred years ago, the buddleia or butterfly bush became the pride of Victorian gardens. But as its seeds are carried on the wind, it soon settled into other sites. Quick to colonise, it seemed to find an echo of its stony homeland in the clinker and rubble of towns. This shrub that may have hidden tigers on the banks of Chinese rivers has found a new splendour as a British urban woodland whose wild animals are populations of butterflies.