Comprehensive and authoritative, this herb encyclopedia features information on the science and lore of herbs, complete information on gardening with herbs indoors and out, specifics on how to use herbs, and more. Home remedies, cooking with herbs, and crafting with herbs are also covered. 225 photos, 75 in color. Illustrations, charts & lists ...
With more than 340,000 copies sold in hardcover, this essential, full-color resource is now available in paperback. Revealing the enormous potential of herbs, this sourcebook includes information on planting, growing, and harvesting herbs, as well as the main uses of herbs. It also offers an exhaustive identification guide, recipes, ideas for ...
With a range of over 700 species shown in 1,500 photographs, this guide gives information on each plant's chief characteristics and its principal herbal uses, from cookery to medicine, and beauty treatment to arts and crafts.
This practical guide to the planting, harvesting and use of more than 35 herbs and 30 different vegetables provides information on garden construction, gardening and techniques (including crop rotation and seed starting) and harvesting. There are also culinary tips on how to get the best flavour from everthing from asparagus to spinach, angelica ...
Your Backyard Herb Garden brings both beauty and practicality to this immensely popular subject. Over 300 color photos and illustrations are featured, covering more than 50 of the most popular garden herbs. Includes recipes for herbal seasonings, vinegars, oils, jellies, breads and teas.
Enrich your Craft - and your spirit - by working with the awesome energies of nature. In this follow-up to "Garden Witchery", Ellen Dugan takes us further down the path of green magick, revealing the secret splendours of the plant kingdom. From common herbs and flowers to enchanted shrubs and trees, Dugan digs up the magickal dirt on a wide ...
NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HERBS AND THEIR USES is the ultimate guide to the cultivation, propagation, and harvesting of herbs for any climate. Gardeners, herbalists, and cooks will all be thrilled at this lavishly illustrated, informative book. Written with the assistance of the Herb Society of America, NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HERBS AND THEIR USES is ...
This is an illustrated instruction for 60 gardening techniques helpful in raising vegetables, fruits and herbs. Problem-solving tables are included which help determine the causes of plant problems, and offer safe, organic solutions. There are 350 illustrations to accompany the text.
Certain plants are prized by ritualists for the range of magical energies they possess. Magical herbalism unites the powers of plants and man to produce and direct change in accord with will and desire. This presents the magic of amulets, charms, sachets, incenses, oils, simples, infusions, and anointments. Includes full instructions, recipes, and ...
This work offers remedies for all the ills known to 17th century society. Together with an alphabetical section on herbs, their provenance and properties, it includes "The English Physician and Family Dispensary", which provides an astrologo-physical discourse of the human virtues of the body.
Now you can create different gifts for every season--herbal wreaths for Christmas, valentine sachets, bridal bouquets, autumn potpourris--with this delightful collection of herbal gift ideas. The Pleasure of Herbs is a month-by-month guide to growing, using, and enjoying herbs. Now in its 13th printing.
Soothe your nerves, cure your cough, color your fabrics, perfume your bath, stimulate your lover, spice your sauces, stop your nightmares, freshen your breath -- with herbs... The most complete catalog of nature's "miracle plants" ever published.
The most complete, most authoritative, most lavishly illustrated compendium of herbs available today. Offers a comprehensive, illustrated glossary of over 200 herbs and is supplemented with chapters on healing, body care, nutrition, and gardening.
This A-Z guide to herbs explains how to grow and maintain them, how and when to use them in the kitchen, and what properties they have for medicinal, cosmetic and household purposes. It includes information on each herb's history, such as when it was discovered and what mythological and magical associations have grown up around it. There are also ...
The founder of the Rosemary House, a Pennsylvania herb and spice shop, provides readers will all the necessary information for transforming an herb hobby into a successful herb business, and shares her secrets for developing and designing herbal products and packaging them effectively. Illustrations; resource list.
This updated edition contains new chapters on "baby" vegetables and the modern easy ways to grow food crops. There is an enlarged chapter on herbs, with details of new varieties which have appeared in the past few years.
Everything you need to know about the world of herbs in a full color A-Z catalog of over 90 herbs, complete with detailed instructions on growing, harvesting, preserving, home remedies, cosmetic uses, and original recipes.
Updated and illustrated in full color, this classic retains the charm and elegance of Culpeper's 17th-century text. "Beautiful, affordable and particularly relevant...identifies both medicinal virtues and modern uses of each plant. In addition to beautiful color illustrations to help with identification of each plant, readers can contrast the ...
Explore the heritage of healing herbs with this richly illustrated study thatexamines more than 60 plants, their properties, benefits, and how and when toplant them.
"One of the best and most straightforward works on growing herbs that this reviewer and zealous herb grower has read."-- "New York Botanical Garden Magazine." A selection of "Better Homes & Gardens" and Rodale Book Clubs. Over 113,000 copies sold.
The leaves, stems, buds, and flowers of lavender are valuable for a variety of uses. This revised and updated edition of the best-selling guidebook gives instructions for growing and harvesting the popular aromatic herb, with ideas for using it in the garden landscape, in crafts, and in recipes. Projects are included for making potpourris, wreaths ...
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