Both the Taylor's Guides to individual plant groups and the Taylor's Weekend Guides on basic techniques and popular gardening styles are highly acclaimed and well established. We now enthusiastically add a quick-reference series for readers who don't have the time or the experience to do their own research. Taylor's 50 Best books highlight the most attractive foolproof plants and include detailed information that every gardener needs in order to grow them. Color photos, full-color drawings, and growing tips make each plant entry useful and complete. Six books introduce the series and cover the most popular plants for backyard gardeners: perennials for sun, perennials for shade, herbs and edible flowers, roses, shrubs, and trees.
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"Taylor's Guides are the best, most authoritative guides on the market." Garden Design
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Frances Tenenbaum is the author of several garden books and the editor of the Taylor's Guide series at Houghton Mifflin.
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This review is from: Taylor's 50 Best Herbs and Edible Flowers: Easy Plants for More Beautiful Gardens (Paperback)
I decided to start an indoor herbal garden, and this was one of the first books I picked up. Not only was it informative about plant care, it also provided some very interesting recipes, concoctions, folklore, and tips on storing and processing the herbs.
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This review is from: Taylor's 50 Best Herbs and Edible Flowers: Easy Plants for More Beautiful Gardens (Paperback)
This book is a very good introduction into herbs and flowers that can be eaten as well as used medicinally or as garden plants.
It is very basic, and will be of little use to the experienced herb gardener or kitchen herbalist. There are about five paragraphs of information for each of the 50 herbs listed; background, how to grow, how to use, top choices, and hints and tips. Where I found this book excellent is the colored photographs and the Latin names make plant identification very easy. Basic information for drying, candying, and other means of preservation and propagation is included, and there is a zone map and an excellent index. Beautiful in its simplicity, this is a very good starter book, and recommended as such.
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