Herbs

The quick and easy to use photographic guide to herbs - for novices and established enthusiasts alikeThis compact visual guide features the highest quality photographs, capturing the unique details of more than 700 plants used by people around the world in cooking, healing, cosmetics, and even pest control. Each herb's entry includes annotated photographs to highlight the herb's distinguishing features, colour illustrations showing a typical specimen, and the plant's natural habitat and native region to help identify it. Discover what each herb is used for, including applications in food preparation, medicine, beauty treatment, aromatherapy, and crafts, while symbols on every page detail which parts of the plant are used.The introduction covers the anatomy of a herb, reveals how herbs have been utilized throughout history, and explains how we use herbs in the modern world, from medicinal uses to the pleasures of a well-kept herb garden, making it an essential reference for anyone interested in exploring their local wilderness or cultivating herbs.

Lesley Bremness changed careers after winning a herb garden design competition at the Chelsea Flower Show, London. Since this success she has written and presented her own television series, The World of Herbs, has designed the herb garden for the Geffrye Museum in London, and has travelled around the world studying exotic and lesser-known herbs.