Thursday, 28 February 2019

Holly Farrell - The Kew Gardener's Guide To Growing Hrerbs


Rating: 5/5

Review:
Very good

I’m very impressed with this book. It is authoritative, beautifully illustrated and extremely useful.

Pretty well everything you’d want to know about growing and using herbs is here. Holly Farrell’s text is readable and refreshingly free of waffle, so it’s accessible and tells you what you need to know concisely and clearly. There are some very interesting ideas for growing and using herbs, as well as all the necessary info about each individual herb.

It’s very nicely presented, with lovely photographs and some very beautiful botanical illustrations. (I can’t find any mention of who they’re by, but they look rather like Ehret’s 18th Century illustrations to me.)

In short, this is a very useful, readable and attractive book. Warmly recommended.

 (My thanks to White Lion for an ARC via NetGalley.)

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