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In a world of constant change and crisis, the relationship between
humans and their environment has never been more vital. Louisiana
Herb Journal invites readers into the world of medicinal herbs,
introducing fifty herbs found in Louisiana, with details on
identification, habitat, distribution, healing properties, and
traditional uses, including instruction on traditional preparation
methods such as tinctures and teas. Interspersed with these
practical details, herbalist Corinne Martin shares stories that
foster a true connection between readers and the world around them,
from tales of childhood cherry picking to harvest mishaps to
folklife traditions passed down through the generations. Accessible
to experienced and rookie herbalists alike, Louisiana Herb Journal
offers a new way of looking at the natural world, getting to know
one's "home ground" through a lens of healing and participation.
Family connections, an intimate knowledge of the surrounding lands
and waters, strong community bonds, an irrepressible resilience,
and a great capacity for celebrating life despite hardships are
part and parcel of what it means to be from Louisiana. A
celebration of the state and the cultures of those who live there,
Louisiana Herb Journal reflects on the value of medicinal herbs in
promoting personal healing and addressing current challenges to the
state's environmental and economic stability. Readers will gain a
deeper recognition of the natural wealth Louisiana enjoys and the
ways that our stewardship of wild plants can impact our personal
health as well as the state's ecological future.
This guide from the experts of Kew Royal Botanical Gardens is
filled with tips and advice to help you grow your best vegetable
garden ever! In this book Kew's Kitchen Gardener, Helena Dove,
combines practical elements with inspiration and beauty to make a
comprehensive and informative guide with all you need to know to
master theart of growing vegetables. She shows how to grow some of
the most popular staple crops such as tomatoes, potatoes, radishes
and rocket, and also some more unusual and exciting choices such as
oca, tomatillo, seakale and yacon. She gives easy to follow
instructions on how to be a successful vegetable gardener, plus 12
exciting projects to try throughout the year including forcing
rhubarb, creating an asparagus border and growing in raised beds.
From sowing, to planting young plants, to hardening off and
harvesting, find out what you need to do and when, to produce the
most magnificent harvests. All the advice is underpinned by the
expertise and authority of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and
illustrated from Kew's world-famous botanical collection. With this
book, you wil be able to reap a rich bounty of delicious vegetables
from just a few packets of seed and some fertile ground! This book
is from the Kew Experts series, in which the top gardeners and
botanical scientists from Royal Botanic Kew Gardens offer up advice
and information as well as suggesting handy projects on a range of
gardening topics. Other titles include: Companion to Medicinal
Plants, Guide to Growing Bulbs, Guide to Growing Fruit, Guide to
Growing Orchids, Guide to Growing Roses, Guide to Growing
Succulents and Cacti, Guide to Growing Trees, Guide to Growing
Herbs and Guide to Growing House Plants.
The Complete Language of Flowers is a comprehensive encyclopedia
providing the meanings, powers, facts, and folklore for over 1,001
flower species. Now in a pocket-size edition for easy, on-the-go
reference. Along with a beautiful visual depiction, each entry
provides the flower's scientific and common names, characteristics,
and historic meanings and powers from mythology, medieval legends,
folklore, and flower poetry. For centuries, symbolic flower
meanings have fascinated readers, writers, poets, and suddenly
smitten couples alike. Extremely popular during the Victorian era,
these floriographies flourished and versed the public on the hidden
meaning of popular flowers such as: Purple Tulip-Eternal love
Amaryllis-Adventurousness; Enthusiasm; Passion Daisy-Beauty and
innocence; Cheer; Childlike playfulness Sunflower-Ambition;
Constancy; Devotion Together with stunning full-color illustrations
and two indexes, one for searching by common flower name and the
other organized by meaning, this beautiful reference is a must-have
for gardeners, florists, and flower enthusiasts. Whether you're
looking to arrange the perfectly bespoken wedding bouquet or to
understand what the yellow rose you just received from an admirer
means (friendship), this updated floriography is a visual delight.
Elegantly designed and beautifully illustrated, the Complete
Illustrated Encyclopedia series offers comprehensive,
display-worthy references on a range of intriguing topics,
including birthday astrology, dream interpretation, techniques for
harnessing the power of dreams, and the stories behind signs and
symbols.
Ever wondered if you could grow plants from the food you buy? Grow Your
Groceries shows you how.
Discover 40 simple, fun hacks to try – no gardening experience needed,
just a windowsill and a recycled container.
Raise tomato plants from tomato slices. Collect strawberry seeds for
endless strawberry plants. Pick salad leaves from beetroot tops. Split
teabags for flowering camomile. Grow fresh cobs from popcorn kernels.
So don’t throw away your melon seeds and spring onion trimmings, save
them to grow new plants instead!
It takes just a few dollars and a few days for you to start
enjoying fresh, healthy produce grown indoors in your own home.
Imagine serving a home-cooked meal highlighted with beet, arugula,
and broccoli microgreens grown right in your kitchen, accompanied
by sauteed winecap mushrooms grown in a box of sawdust in your
basement. If you have never tasted microgreens, all you really need
to do is envision all the flavor of an entire vegetable plant
concentrated into a single tantalizing seedling. If you respond to
the notion of nourishing your guests with amazing, fresh, organic
produce that you've grown in your own house, condo, apartment,
basement, or sunny downtown office, then you'll love exploring the
expansive new world of growing and eating that can be discovered
with the help of "Indoor Kitchen Gardening." Inside, author and
Bossy Acres CSA co-owner Elizabeth Millard teaches you how to grow
microgreens, sprouts, herbs, mushrooms, tomatoes, peppers, and
more-- all "inside" your own home, where you won't have to worry
about seasonal changes or weather conditions. Filled with
mouthwatering photography and more than 200 pages of Do-It-Yourself
in-home gardening information and projects, "Indoor Kitchen
Gardening" is your gateway to this exciting new growing method--not
just for garnishes or relishes, but wholesome, nutritious, organic
edibles that will satisfy your appetite as much as your palate.
'The only cut flower book you'll ever need!' First published in
2011 this bestseller is now found in floristry workrooms and
classrooms across the UK and worldwide and is recommended by many
leading floristry tutors. Fully revised and expanded, the fourth
edition is packed with the same straight forward information on how
to care for and condition over 160 fresh cut flowers both at the
florists' shop and in the home. Florists, floristry students,
flowers arrangers, brides - indeed anyone who enjoys having flowers
in the home will find this book invaluable. Filled with easy to
follow care instructions, flower availability, colour range and
vase life, there are also tips on simple arranging, the flowers
suitability for wedding work and advice on drying and preserving.
Every flower has been individually photographed in full colour,
making identification easy. Arranged in alphabetical order of
botanical names there is also an index of common names to help you
find your favourite flower - plus a mini floral miscellany of
wedding anniversaries, national flowers and rose meanings. Printed
in paperback in a convenient A5 size and spiral bound with a wipe
clean cover, this book has been specifically designed to fit into a
college bag or workbox. An indispensable flower guide you'll not
want to be without.
This book helps you in choosing the perfect plant for every
location in your garden, with 120 photographs. You can understand
the properties of different soils, from acid and alkaline to light
sand and heavy clay. You can make the most of various different
locations within your garden, including moist, shady, dry and
sunny. It includes advice on making the best choices and using the
right planting and growing techniques - from mulching and feeding
to deadheading and pruning - to ensure stunning, healthy plants in
every area of the garden. It includes a quick reference chart of
the most popular garden plants and their individual requirements.
Putting a plant in the right location and soil will ensure that it
has the best possible start and chance of long-term health. This
book explains how to successfully match plants to the conditions in
your garden. It covers the basics of ground preparation, sowing and
planting, as well as offering tips on plant maintenance. All the
different soil types are described and illustrated, showing how
they influence the types of plants that can be grown. A chart of
popular plants provides information on preferred soil types,
position, planting and flowering times, ensuring that you choose
the right varieties for the specific soil and climate conditions in
your garden.
Foraging for Edible Wild Plants is a practical and attractive guide
to the many edible varieties of wild plant that grow all around us.
It will appeal to gardeners, botanists, cooks and foragers, and to
anyone who wants to control invasive plants and weeds in
eco-friendly ways. Wild plants have many virtues. They are:
Valuable for wildlife and beneficial insects. Good for the soil -
locking in nutrients Helpful in the accumulation of trace elements
in soil Hosts for essential mycorrhizal fungi underground
Interesting and unusual ingredients in cooking Foraging for Edible
Wild Plants provides full details of over 50 edible species, with:
Illustrated notes on appearance and habitat Valuable nutritional
information advice on how to cook them numerous recipe suggestions
for jams, cordials, pesto, salads and soups fascinating historical
facts tips for non-culinary uses such as dyes from nettles and soap
from soapwort advice on controlling invasive species such as
knotweed (eat them!) identifying wild plants that are harmful if
eaten attractive colour photographs throughout. Foraging for Edible
Wild Plants covers both common plants, such as nettle, dandelion,
chickweed and ground elder, and less common ones, such as brooklime
and wintercress. The author is a qualified dietician and
horticulturalist, who puts her troublesome weeds to good use. Put
Foraging for Edible Wild Plants on the bookshelf to do the same and
welcome some new, plentiful edibles into the kitchen.
One of a series of gardening books giving expert advice on all
aspects of plant care. Each title is full of helpful hints and
step-by-step colour photography. This title concentrates on
climbing plants.
Updated edition. This concise yet comprehensive handbook, compiled
with the expertise of Reforesting Scotland's editors, covers trees
commonly found in Scotland. From seed provenance and propagation to
the history and lore of each species, this single source contains
all the information you need to select the right trees for your
site and grow them successfully. Whether you are an owner of (or
volunteer at) a small woodland, a gardener looking to incorporate
the most appropriate trees into your space, or simply a lover of
woodland walks and trees, this invaluable reference will be your
one essential guide.
The new Kew guide to planting and cultivating herbs features 12
easy and inspiring projects as well as detailed information on 80
of the most important species to grow, all accompanied by Kew's
beautiful botanical illustrations. Herbs provide flavours and
scents unlike any other, and the 80 hand-picked herbs in this book
are a living trove of fresh flavours for any cook, with power to
transform the simplest dish. Find out how to grow herbs in beds,
pots, borders and windowboxes, how to plant, and how to propagate
and harvest your herbs, as the kew experts equip you with all you
need to create a flourishing herb garden of your very own.
Following this, 80 of the most important and exciting herbs are
identified, illustrated and their uses explained. This is
accompanied by 12 projects which show how to develop a herb garden
at the next level and use herbs in the most interesting and
creative ways, from planting a herb roof to making herbal oils.
Herbs can be used as seeds, flowers, or leaves; cooked and eaten
themselves or used to infuse a dish or drink. They are high-value
ingredients for foraged dishes, and must-have crops for the best
restaurants as chefs realise that often the only way to capture
their elusive flavour is to grow and harvest fresh herbs on their
doorstep. With this book these intense flavours can now be a
reality for gardeners and home-cooks with any size of garden, from
an acre to a window box. Underpinned by the authority of the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew and the expertise of Holly Farrell this book
combines practical elements with inspiration and beauty. This book
is from the Kew Experts series, in which the top gardeners and
botanical scientists from Royal Botanic Kew Gardens offer up advice
and information as well as suggesting handy projects on a range of
gardening topics. Other titles include: Companion to Medicinal
Plants, Guide to Growing Bulbs, Guide to Growing Fruit, Guide to
Growing Orchids, Guide to Growing Roses, Guide to Growing
Succulents and Cacti, Guide to Growing Trees, Guide to Growing
Vegetables and Guide to Growing House Plants.
Love houseplants? Want to know how to care for them but don't know
where to start? Then this book is for you. Over 120 of the most
popular houseplants available today are featured in this easy to
use guide, with a page devoted to each plant and full colour
photography throughout. Find out the ideal spot for your plant in
the home, how often it should be watered and fed plus lots more
besides. Whether your thing is for succulents and cacti or you
can't resist an orchid or fern there is information on caring for
them all, plus concise advise on re-potting, propagation and how to
deal with pests and diseases. Having spent thirty years working in
the pot plant and cut flower industry author Su Whale learnt that
there were generally only two questions customers asked when
purchasing a houseplant. First was, `where can I put it?' the
second, `how often should I water it?' If you are that person and
are looking for a straightforward, practical guide to houseplant
care, which will provide you with the answers to those questions,
(and much more besides!) then this book is for you.
"Rhododendrons & Azaleas" profiles over 4,000 varieties of this
highly popular and striking plant. Illustrated with 1,100 color
photographs, each entry includes a description of the plant and
flower color; notes on hardiness, height and spread, and flowering
time; advice on cultivation and proven performers; and the name of
the parent plants, the raiser, and similar varieties. Practical
advice is also given on rhododendrons in the landscape, maintenance
and husbandry, pests, diseases, problems and disorders,
propagation, and buying and collecting rhododendrons, along with a
brief history and a guide to their classification.
This volume is a lunar calendar and descriptive text that guides the novice planter through the world of planting, sowing, tending and harvesting vegetable and fruit plants according to the lunar and zodiacal cycle.
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