… is another man's flower. This is the gist of perhaps the least pretentious of the mercifully few aphorisms in this otherwise beautiful book, Weeds (Chronicle Books, $19.95, £14.99). Chicago-based Howard Bjornson's lavish collection is a photographic portraiture of the American weed world, or, as the book puts it, of the “free spirits of the natural world”. Most of the weeds featured in this book were gathered within a few miles of Bjornson's studio.