Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants - Richard Mabey

A] witty and beguiling meditation on weeds and their wily ways....You will never look at a weed, or flourish a garden fork, in the same way again. --Richard Holmes, author of The Age of Wonder In this fascinating, richly detailed book, Richard Mabey gives weeds their full due. --Carl Zimmer, author of Evolution Richard Mabey, Great Britain's Britain's greatest living nature writer ( London Times ), has written a stirring and passionate defense of nature's most unloved plants. Weeds is a fascinating, eye-opening, and vastly entertaining appreciation of the natural world's unappreciated wildflowers that will appeal to fans of David Attenborough, Robert Sullivan's Rats , Amy Stewart's Wicked Plants , and to armchair gardeners, horticulturists, green-thumbs, all those who stop to smell the flowers.