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The Herb Almanac
A seasonal guide to medicinal plants
Series: Almanac
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This book is ideal for nature lovers, herbalists, gardeners, and anyone interested in traditional medicine and folklore. It suits beginners learning to grow or forage herbs as well as those seeking a reference guide to the stories and uses of medicinal plants.
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The Herb Almanac is a beautiful and accessible seasonal guide to herbalism from the historic botanic garden.
Discover the best times of the year for growing specific healing herbs and learn when and how to forage for wild medicine, such as water mint, St John's Wort, hawthorn berries, and rosehips. The book includes recipes for using these herbs, folklore stories from herb wives and hedge witches, the meanings behind their names, and the history of how these natural medicines were discovered.
There are plenty of tips for creating your own medicinal herb garden, even with just a few pots, along with a biodynamic guide for sowing, planting, and harvesting.
Including detailed hand-drawn line illustrations to help deepen your understanding, The Herb Almanac is the perfect gift for any nature lover.
CONTENTS INCLUDE:
Introduction
Including using herbs as seasonally appropriate remedies and tonics, an overview of herbs in folklore, wild medicine, magic, superstition, ritual, tradition and literature, and herbs in religion and floriography (the language of flowers).
Gathering and Using Herbs
Discusses safe, legal, and successful foraging, introduces growing your own herbs, and covers preparing, drying, and preserving herbs.
Witches' Brews: Poisonous Plants
An overview of herbs with interesting stories that cannot be easily used, such as wormwood, hemlock, and mandrake.
Herb Encyclopedia
Features detailed information on over 50 different herbs.
Series: Almanac
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The Herb Almanac
The Herb Almanac is a beautiful and accessible seasonal guide to herbalism from the historic botanic garden. Discover the best times of the year for growing specific healing herbs and learn when and how to forage for wild medicine, such as water mint, St John's Wort, hawthorn berries, and rosehips. The book includes recipes for using these herbs, folklore stories...Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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ISBN: 9781783254590
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 21 October 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Aster
Illustration: 68 colour illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 200.0mm
Weight: 222g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Tucked away beside the River Thames, Chelsea Physic Garden is the oldest botanic garden in London and houses around 5,000 different medicinal, herbal, edible and useful plants - a living library dedicated to healing with plants. Medicinal plants have been grown at the Garden since the 17th century, a tradition continued in the present day with displays of medicinal and herbal species used globally in the past, present and potentially in the future.
Chelseaphysicgarden.co.ukInstagram.com/chelsea_physic_gardenTwitter.com/ChelsPhysicGdnAlso by Chelsea Physic Garden
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