Growing Herbs with Margaret Roberts

Growing Herbs with Margaret Roberts A Guide to Growing Herbs in South Africa is concerned with the many and varied uses of herbs and although its main purpose is to instruct us on how to design a herb garden and grow our own fragrant, culinary and medicinal herbs, much of the text is devoted to their fascinating uses. Natural, easily applied country remedies are listed, among them convalescent broth, corn cures, sunflower cough syrup, eczema wash and violet nerve tonic. A herb and ailment reference chat gives effective remedies for everything from anaemia to warts. Once again, the finely detailed colour illustrations and thumbnail sketches are by Joan van Gogh. They are botanically accurate to ensure instant identification of species described in the text. Condition: very good, internally like new. Price R320. Can be couriered to any place in South Africa at an additional cost