Sweet Herbs And Sundry Flowers

The Northwest Herb Lover's Handbook teaches readers how to grow, decorate, heal, and cook with herbs that are native to, or thrive in, the Northwest climate. Mary Preus provides a delightful entry into the world of herbs with detailed instructions for growing 50 herbs and ideas for how to enrich your life through their use. 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.

This book is not the usual herbal; not a homeopathic handbook, a cookbook or a gardener’s consort; not even a compendium of history or lore, though these are its favourite pursuits. At heart, it is a tale of humanity’s poignant relationship with nature. Told in short vignettes, profusely illustrated and sprinkled with personal asides, it touches broadly on the role of plants in legend, in religion, in medicine, commerce, crafts and tradition, in literature, language, politics, beauty, in the rise and fall of empires, in food and manners, in love, in murder, and in crushing social passions. It selects from the trove of history and science moments that amaze, or shock, or move us to disbelief, and asks us to explore the uncanny bond between us and our non-speaking partners in creation.

Provides information on the history, uses, range, and characteristics of more than one hundred herbs, and offers tips on growing them