Growing & Using Lavender: Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-155 (Storey Publishing Bulletin, a-155)
by Patricia R. Barrett
from Storey Publishing, LLC
Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
Lavender: The Grower's Guide
by Virginia McNaughton
from Timber Press, Incorporated
With their heady perfume and stunning visual appeal, lavenders have been prized by gardeners since ancient times. Lavender is a truly comprehensive study that enables the reader to research and identify more than 200 lavender species and varieties. With chapters on cultivation, propagation, pests and diseases, and botanical history, this book is as practical as it is authoritative. More than 200 photos document recent advances in color variation that have resulted from intense breeding; plants now available range from deep purple and lilac to white, cream, pink, and red-violet. With so many hardy and dependable plants to choose from, no lavender enthusiast will want to be without this indispensable book.
More than 200 lavender species & cultivars are described in detail, enabling gardeners to decipher the intricacies of lavender identification.
Lavender: How to Grow and Use the Fragrant Herb
by Ellen Spector Platt
from Stackpole Books
The Lavender Garden: Beautiful Varieties to Grow and Gather
by Robert Kourik
from Chronicle Books
If you consider yourself a lavender lover--that is to say, if you are mesmerized by the plant's delicious aroma, enchanted by its long, rich history, and passionate about its medicinal uses, The Lavender Garden is for you. This lovely book offers instructions on growing, maintaining, harvesting, and drying the plant. Author Robert Kourik includes a comprehensive profile of each variety including history, cultivation, bloom period, flower and foliage shapes, and landscape and culinary use--information that's most useful in determining which of the 16 varieties are right for one's garden. Each entry also contains suggestions on companion plantings that achieve the most aesthetic effect.
The sections on craft projects and culinary uses are outstanding. Kourik offers simple instructions on making oils, potpourri, perfume, and pillows, and the ins and outs of cooking with lavender. Twelve recipes and a list of display gardens and seed sources round out the back of the book. If you are looking to grow your knowledge about varieties of lavender, or would like to foster a friend's interest, The Lavender Garden is sure to delight. --Karen Karleski
Gorgeously fragrant, invigorating, and rich with healing properties, lavender has been cultivated from the beginning of recorded civilization. Today, gardeners everywhere are discovering that growing lavender is a simple and wonderfully rewarding pleasure. The Lavender Garden is a beautiful guide to planting and using this versatile herb in all its forms. There is a variety of lavender to suit almost any setting, indoors and out, and here garden expert Robert Kourik profiles 16 of his favorites. From sky blue to dark violet varieties, he explains which will thrive in dry climates, which are perfect for arrangements, which will fill an entire room with a delightfully romantic fragrance. Once ready to harvest, readers can turn to recipes and directions for baking lavender desserts and breads, preparing lavender teas and syrups, arranging sheaves of lavender into delicate wands (a perfect gift), and even making lavender bath oils and perfumes. Now you don't have to live in the South of France to enjoy the sweet smell and subtle beauty of lavender.
Lavender: Practical Inspirations for Natural Gifts, Country Crafts and Decorative Displays
The Scented Lavender Book
Lavender (The Little Scented Library)
Book of Lavender
Lavender
Lavender Sweet Lavender
The heart of every perfect summer is captured in the sweet fragrance of that most nostalgic of all flowers, lavender. And, in this definitive book, the essence of lavender itself is unerringly captured.
Lavender has been interwoven with history for thousands of years and its role in magic, medicine, and myth make fascinating reading. There is an amazing potpourri provided of traditional and innovative culinary, craft and fragrance uses for lavender that will delight and entrance your senses.
Lavender farms from around the world, together with the history of lavender farming, modern lavender farming techniques and oil extraction are described. For the home gardener the author describes in detail and offers designs for a range of exquisite small authentic historical gardens each featuring lavender, together with expert advice on successfully growing this quintessential cottage plant. An extensive and comprehensive botanical monograph on the genus is included.
Illustrated abundantly with photographs gathered world wide, as well as of the author's garden, and with line drawings by the author.
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