Tag: Richard Mabey

Books review: Weeds

Wild about Weeds: Garden Design with Rebel Plants,
by Jack Wallington (2020)

Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants,
by Richard Mabey (2010)

Front cover of 'Wild about Weeds: Garden Design with Rebel Plants', by Jack Wallington (2020)
Sample page from 'Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants', by Richard Mabey (2010)

Here are two books about weeds, one by a long-established nature writer, the other by a current garden designer and garden writer, and each has a very different way of approaching their subject. The theme of ‘rebels’ and ‘outlaws’ is common to both, as the longer subtitle of Mabey’s book illustrates: ‘How vagabond plants gatecrashed civilisation and changed the way we think about nature’. Strong words!

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