The pride of London
OF all the flowering plants that bloom in London, two random and unruly self-seeding colonisers have been recognised as symbols of the capital. Unlike any other county flower, they both define resilience in times of 20th-century peril. In a 2002 poll by wild-plant conservation charity Plantlife, the public voted rosebay willowherb as London’s county flower. The choice was a tribute to the swift appearance of its tall
