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A beautifully photographed, gift-worthy guide to growing, harvesting, and utilizing 47unexpected garden plants to make organic pantry staples, fragrances, floral arrangements, beverages, cocktails, beauty products, bridal gifts, and more.
Every garden--not just vegetable plots--can produce a bountiful harvest! Thispractical, inspirational, and seasonal guide will help make any garden moreproductive and enjoyable with a variety of projects using unexpected and oftencommon garden plants, some of which may already be growing inyour backyard.
Discover the surprising usefulness of petals and leaves, roots, seeds, and fruit-turn tumeric root into a natural dye and calamintha into lip balm. Make anise hyssopinto a refreshingiced teaand turn apricots into a facial mask. Crabapplebranches can be used to create stunning floral arrangements, oregano flowers toinfuse vinegar, and edible chrysanthemum to liven up a salad. With theremarkable, multi-purpose plants in Harvest, there is always something forgardeners to harvest from one growing season to the next.
Author Notes
STEFANI BITTNER and ALETHEA HARAMPOLIS are the owners ofHomestead Design Collective, a San Francisco Bay Area landscape design firm.Bittner is co-author of The Beautiful Edible Garden and Harampolis is co-author of the bestselling The Flower RecipeBook and The Wreath Recipe Book , and a co-founder/owner of the floral designcompany Studio Choo.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
Bittner and Harampolis, owners of the Homestead Design Collective, a landscape design firm in the San Francisco Bay Area, expand the sense of possibility for practical use of typical plants while showing readers how to increase the bounty of the harvest. For example, lavender is often predictably consigned to the sachet or dried arrangements when, as noted in the book, it goes fabulously with chocolate mint for an invigorating tea. Salt-preserving herbs is another little-known and easily executed project that introduces year-long longevity for seasonal culinary delicacies. Whether for culinary purposes or home design, each project includes advice for optimal growing and cultivation of the relevant plants, followed by tips for proper harvesting. Arranged according to seasons, and accompanied by dramatic and intimate color photos, these creative and eclectic projects make a great resource for the earth-minded lover who relishes nature's gifts but needs new ways of cultivating them and deriving their bountiful benefits. Color photos. (Feb.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Library Journal Review
Many gardeners feel conflicted about whether they should grow their gardens for food or beauty. Bittner and Harampolis, owners of a landscape design firm in San Francisco, explore both approaches as they show readers how to harvest fruits and flowers-and eat them, too. Arranged seasonally, with a design ethos that is naturalistic and unforced, all of the projects in this volume use edible plants; some are for food and drink, but many employ these plants in other ways, including as decorations and personal grooming products. Each project highlights a plant and includes cultivating and harvesting advice. While there is a slight bias for plants that are ideal for growing in Northern California, alternatives are suggested for other climate zones as well. The strategy here is to use what you have and love, rather than follow a strict recipe or rule. Projects are thoroughly photographed, and many will intrigue readers, including huckleberry shrub, lilac flower cream, blueberry dye, and flowering basil arrangement. VERDICT An attractive and inspiring collection good for gardeners of any type.- Devon Thomas, Chelsea, MI © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.