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and buddleja.The caterpillars can destroy plants' foliage in a matter of days and can literally be seen to swell in the process. Luckily, my one cultivated verbascum has so far escaped their attentions, but a buddleja and several of the wild mulleins growing

in autumn. Most prominent at the moment are great stands of stiff-limbed and mauve-flowered buddlejas.Buddleja davidii was brought over from China and named after the French naturalist Pere Armand David (the buddleja bit comes from Essex botanist Adam Buddle