Weeds

“[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 EvolutionRichard 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.