“The best recent all-around lavender book with something for gardeners, crafters, and cooks alike.” —Library Journal Lavender is beloved for its and culinary and medicinal uses. In The Lavender Lover's Handbook, Sarah Berringer Bader provides a complete overview of the 100 most colorful, fragrant, and stunning varieties. You will discover expert tips on spacing, planting, pruning, and care and maintenance. Additional information includes tips on how to harvest, cook with, and preserve the plant, along with step-by-step crafts and project that use lavender in beautiful and soothing ways.

“I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.” —Alice Walker The Lavender Lover's Handbook provides a complete checklist of the color, fragrance, size, and foliage of the 100 easiest, most stunning lavenders available today. In addition to details about spacing, planting, pruning, Sarah Berringer Bader offers tips to harvest, cook, and craft with this wonderful herb. The abundant variety, hardiness, fragrance, and culinary opportunities make lavender one of the most popular and versatile plants, and with this practical and accessible guide, it's easier than ever to grow lush lavender at home.

With their heady perfume and stunning visual appeal, lavenders are a wonderful addition to any garden. Long prized for their scent and healing qualities, lavender has been well loved by generationsof gardeners. This versatile plant is associated with blu

The soothing smell of lavender, rosemary's piney flavor, the bright colors of nasturtiums . . . herbs are wonderful things! In this handsome volume, Mary Preus provides a delightful entree into the world of herbs with detailed instructions on how to grow 50 of the most popular herbs and create an herbal lifestyle. Easy and delicious recipes, herbal crafts and gifts, landscaping with herbs, traditional and modern medicinal use, aromatherapy--it's all here in The Northwest Herb Lover's Handbook.

The most comprehensiveand authoritative accountof lavender. Describingsome 39 species, theirhybrids and cultivars, thisbook brings togethertheir taxonomy,distribution, history,cultivation, propagation,and an overview of theircommercial products,essential oils and chemistry. Lavishly illustrated withRHS Gold Medal award winning paintings bybotanical artists Christabel King, Georita Harriottand Joanna Langhorne. With 31 botanicalpaintings, 45 line drawings and many colourphotographs.

A love of gardening isn't enough to turn a pastime into a profitable business. You need to create a business plan, find a market niche, scout a location, and make the transition from growing small patches of land to full-blown crops. Don't be intimidated, though -- Sandie Shores offers her years of experience to guide you toward success. In this revised edition of Growing and Selling Fresh-Cut Herbs, Sandie takes you through the process of starting up your own business. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and a love for growing, learn from an expert and start your business up right. Let Growing and Selling Fresh-Cut Herbs be your guide to high-quality crops and an unparalleled reputation. You and your customers will be glad you did! Book jacket.

Interviews and photographs of more than thirty Minnesotans who have imported the style and tradition of their native or ancestral lands into their gardening. Includes Finn, French-speaking Swiss, Turk, Slovene, German, Korean, Nowegian, Bahaman, Czech, Ugandan, Latvian, Russian, Nigerian, Guatemalan, Greek, Mexican, Laotian, Japanese, Sudanese, Polish, Filipino, Cuban, Native American, Liberian, Indian, and Hmong ethnics.