Book Description

Revised with an updated text and 50 new colour photographs, many speciallyommissioned, this encyclopaedic manual includes: a modern herbal of 300lants with full cultivation details and uses; designing a herb garden;lanning a garden - choosing herbs, organic growing, propagation, harvesting,rying and storing; cooking with herbs and spices - 200 recipes; householderbs and spices - herbs for potpourri and herbal pillows, for washing andolishing, candle-making and herbal dyes; natural cosmetics - distillationechniques and herb scents, bathing, skin care, herbal hair care, colourantsnd dyes; herbs for health - safe herbal preparations for relaxation,nvigorating tonics, remedies for digestion, coughs, colds, fevers, and firstid.;Sarah Garland is also the author of "The Herb Garden" and the writer andllustrator of the children's books, "Doing the Washing", "Coming to Tea" andhe "Sam" series - "Sam and Joe", "Sam's the Name", "Supersam" and "Sam's Cat"