The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Herbs: Volume 2 Paperback reissue(Kew Experts)

The best-selling guide to growing garden herbs. From the world-renowned Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, this book introduces the 80 best herbs to grow in your garden and teaches you how to cultivate each one. With 12 easy and inspiring projects and beautiful botanical illustrations, this is part of the best-selling series of Kew Gardener's Guides, now available in paperback.  Herbs provide flavour, scent and healing benefits unlike any other plant, and the hand-picked herbs in this book are a living trove of fresh flavours and amazing medicinal remedies. Find out how to grow herbs in beds, pots, borders and window boxes, how to plant and how to propagate and harvest your herbs, as Kew expert Holly Farrell equips you with all you need to create a flourishing herb garden of your very own. Eighty of the most important and exciting herbs are identified, illustrated and their uses explained. This is accompanied by 12 projects which show how to develop a herb garden and use herbs in the most interesting and creative ways, from planting a herb roof to making herbal oils.  Herbs can be used as seeds, flowers or leaves; cooked and eaten themselves or used to infuse a dish or drink. They are high-value ingredients for foraged dishes, and must-have crops for the best restaurants as chefs realise that often the only way to capture their elusive flavour is to grow and harvest fresh herbs on their doorstep. With this book these intense flavours can now be a reality for gardeners and home-cooks with any size of garden, from an acre to a window box.  Underpinned by the authority of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the expertise of Holly Farrell, this book combines practical elements with inspiration and beauty. Perfect for beginners and experienced gardeners alike. This book is from the Kew Experts series, in which the top gardeners and botanical scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew offer up advice and information as well as suggesting handy projects on a range of gardening topics. Other titles available: Growing House Plants, Growing Bulbs, Growing Fruit, Growing Orchids, Growing Vegetables, Growing Roses, Growing Trees, Growing Cacti and Succulents, Growing Perennials, Growing Shrubs, Growing Alpines.

Table of Contents:
Growing herbs Introduction: the value of herbs must-have herbs easy herbs growing herbs equipment growing herbs soil, situation, planting growing herbs perennials growing herbs shrubs and trees growing herbs annuals growing herbs biennials growing herbs in the ground growing herbs in the ground - design growing herbs in containers A-Z of herbs Achillea ageratum Acmella oleracea Agastache foeniculum Allium schoenoprasum Project 1 A vertical herb garden Allium schoenoprasum var sibiricum Allium tuberosum Aloysia citrodora Anethum graveolens Angelica archangelica Anthriscus cerefolium Apium graveolens Artemisia dracumculus Armormacia rusticana Artemisia dracunculus Atriplex hortensis Borago officinalis Brassica Calamintha nepeta Calendula officinalis Calycanthus floridus Carum carvi Caspicum spp Caspicum spp Caspicum spp Project 2 Infused oils, vinegars etc Caspicum spp Chamaemelum nobilis Project 3 Herbs as cut flowers Chenopodium bonus-henricus Cichorium intybus Cinnamomum Citrus Coriandrum sativum Crocus sativus Cuminum cyminum Curcuma longa Project 4 Herbal teas/tisanes Cymbopogon citratus Drimys lanceolata Dysphania ambrosiodies Elettaria cardamomum Eruca vesicaria subsp. Sativa Foeniculum vulgare Project 5 Harvesting seed and fennel pollen Galium odoratum Hyssopus officinalis Laurus nobilis Lavandula spp Project 6 Drying herbs Levisticum officinale Melissa Mentha spicata Mentha spicata Mentha spicata Mentha spicata Project 7 Herbs as a green roof Monarda didyma Myristica fragrans Myrrhis odorata Myrtus communis Nasturtium officinale Ocimum basilicum Ocimum basilicum Ocimum basilicum Project 8 Hey pesto! Ocimum basilicum Origanum marjorana Origanum vulgare Pelargonium crispum Perilla frutescens Persicaria odorata Project 9 Herbs for cocktails Petroselinum crispum Pimpinella anisum Piper nigrum Portulaca oleracea Rosa - R. rugosa and R. gallica var. offincialis Rosmarinus officinalis Project 10 Topiary rosemary Rumex acetosa/R.sanguineus/scutatus Salvia officinalis Salvia officinalis Sambucus nigra Sanguisorba minor Satureja hortsensis Satureja montana Symphytum Syzygium aromaticum Tanacetum Taraxacum officinale Thymus vulgaris Thymus vulgaris Thymus vulgaris Project 11 Herb lawns and seats Thymus vulgaris Trigonella foenum-graecum Tropaeolum majus Urtica dioica Viola odorata Zingiber officinale Problems Problems Year programme: spring Year programme: summer Year programme: autumn Year programme: winter index acknowledgements

About the Author :
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew has cultivated plants for more than 250 years. Today, Kew’s horticulturists grow over 19,000 species of plants in the gardens – the most diverse collection in the world. HOLLY FARRELL is the author of Planting Plans for your Kitchen Garden (2013, How To Books) and RHS Plants from Pips (2015, Mitchell Beazley). She contributes to gardening magazines such as The Garden and Kitchen Garden, and has a blog at www.hollyefarrell.com.  Holly trained at RHS Gardens Wisley where she gained the Wisley Diploma in Practical Horticulture and the RHS Certificate and Diploma, both with Commendation. After working as Head Gardener on a private estate she now combines her career as a garden writer with freelance work as a consultant on kitchen gardens for private clients. Holly has been growing her own fruit and vegetables for many years, in a variety of settings from allotments to container gardens. Holly is also a keen and experienced baker, and while she's happy to produce wedding cakes for friends or hundreds of biscuits for a Christmas market stall, she doesn't need a reason to bake! Jason Ingram is a Bristol based Photographer specialising in Gardens, Food, People and Interiors.