{"id":16750,"date":"2025-08-11T17:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/?post_type=book&#038;p=16750"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:01:55","slug":"weeds-in-defense-of-natures-most-unloved-plants","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/weeds-in-defense-of-natures-most-unloved-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeds: In Defense of Nature&#8217;s Most Unloved Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For 20 years, Rebecca Alexander was a mainstay of the Elisabeth C. Miller Library staff.\u00a0 Rebecca retired at the end of June 2025, but before she went, I asked about her favorite books in the Miller Library collection.\u00a0 I was not surprised that the list of books \u201cthat have made <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16743 wp-img alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/0062065459.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"204\" \/>a lasting impression\u201d she provided was extensive and quite varied.\u00a0 Many are in her personal collection.<\/p>\n<p>I share Rebecca\u2019s appreciation of anything by the British author Richard Mabey.\u00a0 The Miller Library has 13 of his books; he has also contributed to several others.\u00a0 Rebecca owns \u201cWeeds: In Defense of Nature&#8217;s Most Unloved Plants\u201d from 2011.\u00a0 Mabey has especially keen abilities of observation of both the plant world and human history, and how they interact.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by: Brian Thompson on May 23, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from the Summer 2025 issue of the <em>Arboretum Bulletin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 20 years, Rebecca Alexander was a mainstay of the Elisabeth C. Miller Library staff.\u00a0 Rebecca retired at the end of June 2025, but before she went, I asked about her favorite books in the Miller Library collection.\u00a0 I was not surprised that the list of books \u201cthat have made a lasting impression\u201d she provided was extensive and quite varied.\u00a0 Many are in her personal collection. I share Rebecca\u2019s appreciation of anything by the British author Richard Mabey.\u00a0 The Miller&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/weeds-in-defense-of-natures-most-unloved-plants\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weeds: In Defense of Nature&#8217;s Most Unloved Plants<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[],"class_list":["post-16750","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/16750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=16750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}