Container, Small Space, & Urban Gardening, Herb Gardening

The Potted Herb

Name: The Potted Herb
Author: Abbie Zabar
ISBN: 9781584793557

by Abbie Zabar

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Overview

Since its publication in 1988, The Potted Herb has become a classic gardening and gift book. Beloved for its delicate line drawings and accessible size, this beginner's guide to growing your own herbs has sold more than 65,000 hard-cover copies. Now, in an affordable paperback format with a fresh cover design, the popular title will reach a new readership.Zabar, who tends to her own patio garden in Manhattan, writes in an engagingly personal tone about twenty-two varieties of herbs suitable for cultivating in containers. Included are instructions for training the plants into topiaries, preparing simple yet delicious recipes flavored with fresh, aromatic herbs, and creating wreaths, sachets, lotions, and other handmade crafts from herbal ingredients. In addition to the practical information, Zabar also reflects on the poetics of gardening and how it can enhance our everyday lives-even when space demands that the greenery be confined to terra-cotta pots and kitchen window boxes. Author Bio: ABBIE ZABAR has written, illustrated, and designed a number of gardening and food books that delight both adults and children. Her titles include Alphabet Soup (Stewart, Tabori & Chang), 55 Friends, and A Growing Gardener. Zabar resides in New York where she works as an artist, author, designer, and when all else fails, a gardener.