Explains how to grow, buy, and use herbs for medicinal use, cooking, scents, dyeing, landscaping, and other purposes.

Provides information on the history, uses, range, and characteristics of more than one hundred herbs, and offers tips on growing them

Here, in one complete, beautifully illustrated volume, is everything readers need to know to grow and use their own herbs. A special encyclopedia section gives

Where there's a symptom, there's also a homegrown cure. With just a windowsill, container, or small space, it's easy to grow an instant herbal remedy. Whether i