Oh, it took me forever to get through this. I was quite looking forward to it too! As a botanist and a speculative fiction writer myself, this should have been right up my alley. Alas, I could not get enthused. There were some genuinely interesting chapters in here. I particularly liked Jerry Määttä's chapter on John Wyndham, T.S. Miller's chapter on "Vegetable Love" and Alison Sperling's chapter on Jeff VanderMeer, but in all honesty a lot of the book blurred together for me. The main points are fair enough: that plants can be re-imagined to illustrate different forms of existence, and different relationships between species; that blurring boundaries between plants and non-plants (particularly humans) is a valuable way of illustrating this; and that Michael Marder requires substantial referencing. On these points the authors agree, and so do I. Yet despite their often very different approaches to said points, reading them reiterated over and over does come to be repetitive. Hence the blurring.