Using Herbs in the Home

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Most people use herbs in the kitchen - rosemary wrthi lamb, basil with tomatoes, dill or parsley with fish. There is no doubt that good food can be elevated into something sensational through the clever use of herbs. However, apart from their culinary uses, there ore so many other ways to use herbs in the home. Whether being used as a pot-pourri, tussie mussie, wreath or trophy, the natural scents of dried herbs have always been sought after and in our modern, more ecologically minded world their appeal continues unabated.
Another ecological use ot herbs is in homemade herbal preparations for hair, nails, eyes, skin and body, which present a purely natural alternative to the mass-produced products so expensively packaged today. They also give you the added satistoction of knowing that, whatever you use, no animals will have suffered in the preparation.
Using Herbs in the Home is a practical handbook for those who wish to rTioke use of herbs domestically - from cultivation,... Tovább

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Most people use herbs in the kitchen - rosemary wrthi lamb, basil with tomatoes, dill or parsley with fish. There is no doubt that good food can be elevated into something sensational through the clever use of herbs. However, apart from their culinary uses, there ore so many other ways to use herbs in the home. Whether being used as a pot-pourri, tussie mussie, wreath or trophy, the natural scents of dried herbs have always been sought after and in our modern, more ecologically minded world their appeal continues unabated.
Another ecological use ot herbs is in homemade herbal preparations for hair, nails, eyes, skin and body, which present a purely natural alternative to the mass-produced products so expensively packaged today. They also give you the added satistoction of knowing that, whatever you use, no animals will have suffered in the preparation.
Using Herbs in the Home is a practical handbook for those who wish to rTioke use of herbs domestically - from cultivation, drying and storing to ideas and recipes for their use.
Anthony Gardir IGI COfilv:) to hoili-culture tollowing o ooreer iri.rjcting Seduced by his love of herij;. cjnd herb growing, he ioundod Cxjrdiners Herbs when working frorii o lorcie
private gorderi in Barnes, Southwest London, in 1991. Within a year he was exhibiting his herbs at the world-tamous Chelsea Flower Show, on the Notional ForiTier's Union stand-winner that year ot a Gold Medal.
In 1993 Anthony created a Paiadise garden at Leeds Castle, KenL for 1he outuiTin exhibition. Since then he has designed and createci more permanent herb gardens ir^ Lnglond and the south of France,
He IS a member of the council of the British Herb Trade Association, and his design trade is carried out from 35 Victoria Road, Mortioke, London SW14 8EX. Vissza