Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants A Witty and Beguiling Guide to Wildflowers for Gardeners and Horticulturists

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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 Britains Britains greatest living nature writer (London Times) has written a stirring and passionate defense of natures most unloved plants. Weeds is a fascinating eye-opening and vastly entertaining appreciation of the natural worlds unappreciated wildflowers that will appeal to fans of David Attenborough Robert Sullivans Rats Amy Stewarts Wicked Plants and to armchair gardeners horticulturists green-thumbs all those who stop to smell the flowers.