Landscaping with Herbs - Softcover

Adams, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881925144 ISBN 13: 9780881925142

Publisher: Timber Press, 2009

Synopsis

This book is a veritable treasure-trove of garden, landscaping and herbal information and lore, presenting a variety of landscaping designs complete with layout plans. James Adams includes descriptions of the more than 600 herbs incorporated in the plans, recipes, medicinal uses, cultural requirements, herbs for a fragrant garden, useful charts and tables, and splendid line drawings and illustrations. This is a book that herb enthusiasts as well as general gardeners will want to have on their shelves.

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Review:

We think of herbs as food, or as medicine, but we don't often think of them as aesthetic objects. Gardeners are taught to grow herbs for a reason--these are plants that should be harvested. The author of Landscaping with Herbs, James Adams, aims to show readers how to appreciate herbs as decorative plants. He wants to illuminate their hidden potential, their "other half." Because herbs are so integral to our lives, Adams believes they should be more integral to the garden, sharing in a gardener's landscaping fantasy as much as tulips or magnolia trees.

This coffee-table book is mostly text, with a few scattered photographs, and the prose is a dense mixture of ideas. A chemist by trade, Adams has a complex mind, even going so far as to classify "the volatiles that we perceive as odors released by both flowers and foliage." One highlight: a section on the many ways to landscape a fragrant herbal garden, scattering jasmine and rosemary so that each garden room is flooded by a distinct natural perfume. --Emily White

Book Description:

This book offers a wealth of information on herbs as ornamentals in a variety of garden settings, including details on herb cultivation, folklore, history & culinary uses for over 600 species & cultivars.

About this edition

• Publisher: Timber Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0881925144
• ISBN 13: 9780881925142
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 247