Thank you Elizabeth! This book is stunning! And yes I absolutely love my Winter Solstice tonic for Winter blues 🤍🤍🤍and vegan soap- both looks and smells lovely. 🤍❄️🤍❄️🤍❄️🤍❄️🤍❄️🤍❄️🤍❄️🤍❄️🤍❄️🤍❄️🤍
Thank you Elizabeth! This book is stunning! And yes I absolutely love my Winter Solstice tonic for Winter blues 🤍🤍🤍and vegan soap- both looks and smells lovely. 🤍❄️🤍❄️🤍❄️🤍❄️🤍❄️🤍❄️🤍❄️🤍❄️🤍❄️🤍❄️🤍
100 herbs are included in this beautiful overview that covers history, folklore, gardening, cooking and healing. Some plants are less common—like carline, mitsuba & rice paddy herb—while others I think more of as ornamental, such as goldenrod & viola. The entries are brief & interesting. This book is designed for pleasure or as a starting point rather than for in-depth reference. I spent much time admiring the striking, stylized artwork.
… the French physician Hilarius thought that smelling too much basil would make you breed scorpions in your brain …
Open afresh your round of starry folds,
Ye ardent marigolds!
-John Keats
This book is soooooo beautiful! A Thames & Hudson book (sigh), it's a gorgeously illustrated compendium of herbs. Each has a two-page spread- one with facts and one with a fabulous drawing. Considering the beautiful way it's bound, it's also quite reasonably priced. I would love to make it through just one work day without adding to my TBR!