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barnyard grass
bramble
burdock
buttercup
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Category=WNP
celandine
Charles Darwin
chickweed
COP=United Kingdom
cow parsley
crops
dandelion
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Dioscorides
ecology
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farming
Garden of Eden
gardening
gardens
giant hogweed
global warming
hemlock
henbane
herbicides
history
Jacques Nimki
Japanese knotweed
John Clare
John Evelyn
Karl Blossfeldt
Language_English
meadowsweet
Michael Pollan
nettles
Nicholas Culpeper
nightshade
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pests
plantains
plants
plough
ploughing
poison ivy
poppies
poppy
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roadside weeds
ryegrass
seaweed
softlaunch
violet
weeding
weeds
William Shakespeare
yarrow
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- ISBN 9781789149586
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 Oct 2024
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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To most of us, weeds can seem nothing more than intruders in gardens, farms and city streets. But the idea of the weed is a slippery one, constantly changing according to different needs, fashions and contexts. In a well-ordered field of corn, a scarlet poppy is a bright red intruder, but in other parts of the world it is an important cultural symbol, a potent and lucrative pharmaceutical source, or simply a beautiful ornament. Fat hen, which today we consider a pest, was in Neolithic times a staple crop, its seeds an important source of nutrition. Weeds sketches the history of the fashions and attitudes that have shaped our fields and gardens, showing that what we keep out of them is just as fascinating as what we put in.
Nina Edwards is a freelance writer based in London. Her books include On the Button: The Significance of an Ordinary Item (2011) and Darkness: A Cultural History (Reaktion, 2018).
