Everything you need to know about the world of herbs in a full-color A to Z catalog of over 90 herbs, complete with detailed instructions on growing, harvesting and preserving, along with home remedies, cosmetic uses, and original recipes.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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The ONE book to own if you're at all interested in herbs,
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This review is from: Herbs (RD Home Handbooks) (Paperback)
If you are curious about growing herbs, or already grow herbs and are interested in expanding your garden or your knowledge about these plants, this is the ONE book to buy. Gorgeous color photographs identify each herb (dozens upon dozens are listed) in its seed, flowering, and leafy stages -- popular varieties of herbs are included as well. Herbs are also listed accourding to use -- culinary, cosmetic, medicinal, decorative. Also included are step-by-step instructions for infusions, decoctions, and other herbal recipes. This book may not show you how to landscape your garden (try American Horticultural's Herb Gardens book) but aside from this, this will be your herb Bible.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Good field guide style herb book,
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This well-produced book has lots of small illustrations reminiscent of a field guide. It includes lots of varieties for each herb type - 17 kinds of thyme, for instance. Not very much detail on medicinal uses, and you won't find really exotic species like gotu kola. It is a small book, and packs in lots of information for its size. Information on cultivation is condensed but adequate.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Terrific overview of herb descriptions, history, and uses!,
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This review is from: Herbs (RD Home Handbooks) (Paperback)
From cultivating and harvesting to remedies and recipes, this book has virtually everything you need to know about herbs. The historical background of each herb is given, listing genus, species, and family. Important information is provided with detailed full-color photographs of herb plants and plant parts, listing their decorative, culinary, household, cosmetic, aromatic, and medicinal uses. Indexed by common and botanical names as well as by ailment and other relevant terms, this book is useful and easy to use for novice or expert. Learn to make your own potpourri or beauty products. Grow your own garden with advice from the section on the A-Z of Cultivation. Find out more about cooking with herbs. It's all in "Herbs."
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Inspired by the herbals of John Gerard and Nicholas Culpeper, which were published over 300 years ago, the following pages form a contemporary guide to many of the most useful and easy-to-grow herbs. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lovage seed, tsp borax, hardy herbaceous, standard infusion, herb pillows, festive wreaths, divide roots, take stem cuttings, indoor cultivation, sweet myrtle, potpourri mixtures, becoming woody, strewing herb, growing indoors, field horsetail, grown indoors, salad burnet, tbsp chopped parsley, sunny position, strong decoction, linden blossom, tbsp butter, facial steam, flowering tops, sweet marjoram Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Propagating Sow, Preserving Dry, Lifespan Hardy, Growing Thin, Harvesting Pick, Site Full, Soil Well, Soil Rich, Harvesting Gather, Growing Transplant, Propagating Divide, Propagating Take, Soil Light, King Henry, Description Hardy, Leaf Large, Preserving Freeze, Seed Small, Site Sun, Flower Tiny, Joe Pye, Leaf Aromatic, Soil Any, Soil Moist, Stem Hairy New!
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Inspired by the herbals of John Gerard and Nicholas Culpeper, which were published over 300 years ago, the following pages form a contemporary guide to many of the most useful and easy-to-grow herbs. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lovage seed, tsp borax, hardy herbaceous, standard infusion, herb pillows, festive wreaths, divide roots, take stem cuttings, indoor cultivation, sweet myrtle, potpourri mixtures, becoming woody, strewing herb, growing indoors, field horsetail, grown indoors, salad burnet, tbsp chopped parsley, sunny position, strong decoction, linden blossom, tbsp butter, facial steam, flowering tops, sweet marjoram Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Propagating Sow, Preserving Dry, Lifespan Hardy, Growing Thin, Harvesting Pick, Site Full, Soil Well, Soil Rich, Harvesting Gather, Growing Transplant, Propagating Divide, Propagating Take, Soil Light, King Henry, Description Hardy, Leaf Large, Preserving Freeze, Seed Small, Site Sun, Flower Tiny, Joe Pye, Leaf Aromatic, Soil Any, Soil Moist, Stem Hairy New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Make a Movie That Tells a Story on page 70, and page 174
- Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets (None) by John Evelyn in Front Matter
- A Modern Herbal (Volume 1, A-H): The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-Lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs & Trees with Their Modern Scientific Uses by Margaret Grieve in Front Matter
- Activity Fun With Pooh by MILNE on page 67
- Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition) by A. A. Milne on page 67
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