And, through a benign policy of neglect due to financing problems and other factors, the gardens also inadvertently came to demonstrate that the American holly is one tough plant, a woody ornamental that can survives decades of absolutely no care.
Credit Suisse analysts said: "We expect the benign policy backdrop of recent years to continue and that Capita will play a meaningful role in the both the government's cost-reduction programmes as well as its ongoing expansion into the private sector in the UK and Germany".
These policies were conscious, purposeful, not the unintended consequences of benign policies, and not pursued primarily from an accommodation with southern politicians.
Some executives argue that even if they do not meet American standards on foreign soil, they follow more benign policies than their local competitors do.
It must recover its attraction as a democracy that has benevolent and benign policies that can uplift all the peoples of the world policies that can rally moderate Muslims, now on the defensive, to stand up and oppose the jihadists' religious and ideological perversion of the Koran.
Nancy Curtin, chief investment officer of Close Brothers Asset Management, said: "Our view that the US is recovering but not strong enough to trigger a reassessment of still benign monetary policy.
Companies base themselves in the UK because of other matters: English, access to the EU, a benign tax policy etc ("Vital Heathrow expansion must not be held up by craven politics", Comment).
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The benign neglect policy - No news is good news; evaluations are pro forma annual exercises that are filed away, rarely if ever referred to, but used to possibly justify occasional bonuses, raises, and promotions.
However, Ray Farris from Credit Suisse told the BBC that currency weakness, like that of the yen, can be just a by-product of benign monetary policy designed to boost domestic economies.
The result of this seemingly benign foreign policy decision is a starkly human one.
