The Lavender Lover's Handbook: The 100 Most Beautiful and Fragrant Varieties for Growing, Crafting, and Cooking - Hardcover

by Sarah Berringer Bader (Author)

"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.

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With its intoxicating scent, wands of gorgeous purple flowers, and handsome silvery foliage, lavender is one of the world's most popular herbs. Lavender expert Sarah Bader introduces readers to 100 stunning varieties--from the continuous blooms of deep purple 'Buena Vista' and the sweet, delicate flavor of pink 'Melissa' to the incredible fragrance of 'Grosso', the lavender most often used in making perfume.

The Lavender Lover's Handbook is an essential resource for finding the best varieties for your garden or container, providing you with a complete checklist of the color, fragrance, size, and foliage of each plant. Whether you want to create a fabulous container garden, a dramatic border, or an exquisite herb garden, this rich primer gives easy, proven tips for growing, harvesting, drying, cooking, and crafting with this wonderful herb.

"This is simply the most gorgeous, enticing, and informative book on lavender that one will find." --Rosemary Gladstar, author and herbalist