It’s been a classic for over 350 years. As charming and elegant as the 17th-century original, this groundbreaking herbal guide combines Nicholas Culpeper’s fascinating text with up-to-date information and modern, delightful full-color illustrations. Culpeper—famed astrologer, physician, and author—covered almost 400 herbs and plants from Aconite, Adder’s Tongue, and Agaric to Yarrow, Yew, and Yucca. For each entry, he gave both the Latin and common names of each, details on where to find it, and its flowering time, astrology, and medicinal virtues. Many of these plants still occupy a prominent position in the dispensaries of today’s herbalists, so in addition to Culpeper’s entertaining and often caustic comments and descriptions there are notes on contemporary usage by an established practitioner.

This oh-so-readable book of herbal remedies should be a standard reference for anyone’s bookshelf. James Duke, America’s foremost authority on medicinal plants and herbs, shares his knowledge about the safe natural remedies that lie untapped in jungles, forests, backyards, and herb gardens throughout the world. With entries that address arthritis, back pain, heart health, high cholesterol, migraines, mood swings, osteoporosis, wrinkles, and much more (over 120 conditions in all!).

Complete instructions for successfully growing 101 medicinal plants using totally organic techniques. Tammi Hartung, a certified organic grower and board member of United Plant Savers, shares all the secrets of propagation, soil preparation, natural pest management, harvesting techniques, and even garden design for both beauty and highest yield. Also includes herb-by-herb profiles and a guide to making medicines and delicious healing foods.

This essential book offers practical advice on every aspect of growing herbs from propagation, pruning, and training, to topiary and clipping. There are tips on designing your own herb garden, raising healthy herbs, and laying out decorative beds. In addition, there is an impressive botanical A–Z of herbs for easy plant identification, with information on herb cultivation and related species as well as detailed descriptions of each plant variety. But that’s not all. Over 80 irresistible step-by-step recipes present herby dishes from all over the world, and there are 40 delightful easy-to-make herb craft ideas, including scented candles, decorative cards, table pieces, and wreaths.

Sally Gallo, 64 pages, 5 x 6 1/2, b&w illustrations, Interweave Press

Ten years ago, Shatoiya de la Tour settled on a 2 1/2 acre plot of rocky clay soil in northern California and began herb gardening. Today, people come from around the world to visit the lush, enchanting theme gardens at Dry Creek Herb Farm, created by Shatoiya and her husband, Richard. Besides hosting visitors at their own gardens, they lead tours of the herb gardens of New England every summer. Out of their love for herb gardening and their friends within the herb-gardening community comes this insider’s look at the gardens of ten leading North American herbalists.
The authors introduce the reader to these gifted herbalist-gardeners and share their stories of how their gardens were envisioned, planned, and made a reality. This personal tour of such enchanted and well-known places as Sage Mountain in Vermont (Rosemary Gladstar’s wild garden); Caprilands (the Queen Mother of all herb gardens, created by the late, much-adored Adelma Simmons); and Plimoth Plantation (where horticulturist John Forti has recreated the historical gardens of the pilgrims) will inspire the reader to create their own dream garden.

Accompanied by full-color photographs and an illustrated garden plan, each chapter is filled with the distinctive vision, creative solutions, and gardening secrets of some of the most talented herbalists in the business. These accomplished gardeners share their difficulties, joys, choices, practices, favorite herbs with growing tips, and favorite recipes, both culinary and medicinal. This book is a beautiful and special glimpse into the world of the herbalist.

Hang up your shovel and trowel! Now you can use the time (and money) you save laboring in your garden to actually enjoy it. Drawing on the amazingly simple layering system of gardening developed in her previous “lasagna gardening” books, Patricia Lanza applies these principles to the ever-popular topic of growing herbs. Her organic, commonsense approach uses natural ingredients, close planting, and generous mulching, with little or no fancy equipment. Here she shares her homegrown methods, based upon almost 50 years of experience, to give readers tips on:
 Using more than 50 favorite herbs in recipes
 Making herbal wreaths and creating delicious herbal teas
 Using herbs for aromatherapy and potpourri
 Growing and using edible flowers
This is the perfect book for all busy people who want to reap the rewards of a garden but who lack the time, the energy, or the confidence to get down in the dirt. Acomplished and amateur gardeners alike will love this ingenious process that allows you to create beautiful, productive, low-maintenance herb gardens.

A Garden Writers Association of America Award Winner
Since its publication in 1988, The Potted Herb has become a classic gardening and gift book. Beloved for its delicate line drawings and accessible size, this beginner's guide to growing your own herbs has sold more than 65,000 hardcover copies. Now, in an affordable paperback format with a fresh cover design, the popular title will reach a new readership. Abbie Zabar, who tends to her own patio garden in Manhattan, writes in an engagingly personal tone about twenty-two varieties of herbs suitable for cultivating in containers. Included are instructions for training the plants into topiaries, preparing simple yet delicious recipes flavored with fresh, aromatic herbs, and creating wreaths, sachets, lotions, and other handmade crafts from herbal ingredients. In addition to the practical information, Zabar also reflects on the poetics of gardening and how it can enhance our everyday lives-even when space demands that the greenery be confined to terra-cotta