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.
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.. --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. --Richard Holmes, author of The Age of Wonder In this fascinating, richly detailed book, Richard Mabey gives weeds their full due.
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