A WRITER AT LARGE: Flora Londinica London is the most botanically rich city in the northern hemisphere, home to around 2,400 species of flowering plants and ferns, more than the rest of the country put together. And the numbers are growing, says DAVE RANDALL, as more and more increasingly exotic asylum- seekers try to put down roots

From: The Independent on Sunday | Date: October 19, 2003| Author: DAVE RANDALL | Copyright information

E very morning, from the window of my commuter train into London, I see things that shouldn't really be there. Some are bright, some are tall, and with every passing week I see more of them.

They are plants; exotic, alien plants. Shrubs from China, climbers from North America, great agricultural specimens from Russia - all growing wild in such profusion that they are now much the most conspicuous plants in the lineside wildernesses I pass in my train. And when I walk around town, I se...

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