A Guide to Your Herb Garden - Descriptions of How to Grow and Care for Everyday Herbs
by Mary Thorne Quelch
Unlock the power of one of nature's most beneficial herbs--and explore the many modern applications of lavender. Learn to make nourishing, all-natural, and affordable remedies for mind and body, as well as home cleaning products. Plus, discover lavender as a culinary ingredient and whip up delcious cocktails and more! Here, you'll find simple herbal remedies, tips, and projects for inspiration, relaxation and well-being, as well as info for growing and cultivating your own lavendar plants. Har...
This is a unique photographic guide to herbs and plants from all over the world which are grown for their healing and culinary properties. Over 400 plants are illustrated in colour, making this the most comprehensively illustrated book on the subject. It includes descriptions of the plants' distinctive features for identification, as well as botanical information showing where each is found and how to grow it yourself or gather it from the wild. The text relates the history of each plant, descri...
Herb Garden (American Horticultural Society Practical Guides)
by Richard Rosenfeld
1ST PUBLISHED 1931: AUTHOR DIED 1941, EDITOR 1957(JS-11/91)
What's small, able to be grown on your windowsill and is bursting with flavour and goodness? Microgreens! The new superfood that everyone can grow.
Explains how to plan, plant, and care for an indoor or outdoor herb garden with specific instructions for growing ten herbs.
First published in 1939, "Magic gardens" is the third book in Rosetta E. Clarkson's herb trilogy. It is laced with both lore and practical information, with numerous extracts and fifty woodcuts from the author's library of herbals and gardening books that date back to the 15th century. There is a chapter full of herbal medicine and magic - parsley will cure baldness, dill cures obesity, and plantain heals snake bites; a chapter on garden mazes; direction for making sweet sachets of lavender, ros...
The "Herb Finders" are a designed trilogy of herb books one for the gardener, one for the cook, one for the natural health and beauty enthusiast. Each title includes a photographic index of 60 herbs, capturing their individual features in close-up detail. It also includes practical information on growing and using herbs. The front flap includes an ingenious pull chart providing at-a-glance information on soil, site and cultivation requirements for every herb. "Growing Herbs", the first in this n...
