Grow Your Own Botanicals | Hardcover

Turn your garden into a harvest!

Grow Your Own Botanicals brings together an inspirational collection of plants that add beauty, structure and interest to a garden as well as providing an exciting food source that can be used in innovative ways in the kitchen and home. If you're buying seed kits and botanical plant gifts or like to experiment with making your own drinks, remedies or skin care, this handbook is the must-have companion gardening guide. Now you can make your hibiscus cordial for cocktails, herb and spice mix for your roasts or calendula face cream with your own garden produce.

This is a great starter book from Cinead McTernan that offers general advice on soil, composting, borders, containers, seed saving, cuttings, intercropping, wildlife and biodiversity -before moving on to the botanical garden. From plants that might traditionally be recognized as a botanical, to more unusual exotic varieties, this collection of 80 botanicals don't need huge space to grow, but must harvest meaningful amounts to use to flavour food, drinks and oils.