Beautiful Easy Herbs: How to Get the Most from Herbs-In Your Garden and in Your Home

by Laurence Sombke

Find all your favorite herbs, delicious recipes--even herbal crafts--in this elegant volume that shows gardeners of all levels how to successfully grow herbs indoors and out. Ten colorful, foolproof garden designs include a Potpourri Garden and an Herbal Tea Garden. An herb directory, special harvest chapter, and seasonal care calendar complete the sumptuously illustrated guide.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Herbs, Reference

288 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1997

Reviews

[Melissa G · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super comprehensive! I am not planting an herb garden but if I did, this is a manual to have handy! I will definitely return to this book when I am ready to have someone create a garden for me (I'm not doing it). The chapter on herb garden designs gives some good ideas.

[Marsha McDowell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Makes me want to rush out and plant a herb garden.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a shorter book, not a giant tome or manuel. The photos & illustrations are beautiful. I found Chapter 2, Fifty Herb Biographies the most helpful part of the book. Of all the herb gardening books I own this is probably the best, for the basics. The harvesting & preserving chapter is clear, concise & to the point info. Especially found the freezing herbs section helpful. Where the book (and many garden books fail) is the herb garden designs. They are very generic. I understand they are trying have a general design that works for all zones, soils, etc. Unfortunately it leaves 10-12 plants in the same design over & over again. Stale.

[False · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nicely laid out book. Sections for created your own gardens (and how it might be used; for example, a tea herb garden, a healing herb garden, a flowering herb garden, etc.) A nice basic encylcopedia of the herbs themselves and their growing conditions and needs. Recipes using herbs and teas to make using herbs. Also potpourri's. I wish he had added a small section on making soaps with herbs.

[Joy Weese Moll · Rating 4 out of 5]

A small but surprisingly useful book with detailed pages on fifty herbs plus other herb gardening tips and tricks.

From St. Louis County Library

[Windy · Rating 4 out of 5]

After all the millions of herb books I've read this simple short one is the one I finally used to design my herb garden.

[Maree · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of good info. I will check this one out from the library again in the future when I'm ready to add some more herbs to my garden. It's got some nice garden plans.