The Herb Garden: A Complete Guide to Growing Scented, Culinary and Medicinal Herbs

by Sarah Garland

Paperback, 1984

Call number

635 G

Collection

Publication

Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd (1984), 168 pages

Description

A practical guide to herb gardens, the varieties of herbs available and how best to grow and cultivate them. The photographs seek to illustrate the attractiveness of herbs in any situation. Practical instruction on cultivating, propagating, harvesting and using the herbs is set in the wider context of designing a pleasing and functional garden: planning a knot garden, building raised beds and banks, and establishing plants underfoot and training them overhead. A herb index catalogues the enormous variety of herbs available, with illustrations comparing species from the more complicated herb families.

User reviews

LibraryThing member Carmenere
I enjoyed this book very much especially the early chapters on the herb garden in history. Nice descriptions with drawings and/or pictures of monastery gardens, Medival and Renaisssance Gardens plus something they call the Physic Gardens of today. Not only does it offer the usual index of herbs,
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this very helpful little book also suggests different ways to plan your garden and constructing quaint accessories for it. Methods in cultivating herbs in included with advice on everything from choosing herbs to growing herbs in containers.
I highly recommend this book for the novice to intermediate herb garden hobbyist. 4 stars
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LibraryThing member ruric
Useful little book divided into four main sections.

1. The herb garden in history: examines monastery, medieval, renaissance and physic gardens illustrated with reproductions of pictures, planting plans and photos.

2. Planning the herb garden presents a number of design solutions for incorporating
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herb gardens into modern gardens.

3. Constructing a herb garden covers useful construction techniques such as walls and boundaires, paths, fences and arbours etc.

4. Final section is about cultivating herbs - how to grow and use them.
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Pages

168

ISBN

0711203881 / 9780711203884
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