The New American Herbal book by Stephen Orr is a
comprehensive guide to herbs. It is very well done with beautiful photography
throughout. The book starts out with Herb Basics it explains different terms
associated with the herbs, different families, harvesting, preserving, and propagating
them. The information is pretty basic but enough to get a newbie started. The
herbs are listed in alphabetical order and each herb has information as to
whether it is safe or not, where it is hardy, along with other information
about it. Some herbs even include recipes.
I really like this book the only thing I could think of to
make it better would for it to give more complete information on healing herbs
or maybe indexed some way so that healing herbs could be found easily and
quickly. This probably wouldn’t be
possible because of the vast amount of herbs listed but still would be
something I would like. One other thing I would have like to have seen would be
more gardening ideas and container growing ideas. There were a few ideas in it.
If you have ever had an interest in herbs I would recommend
this book. I received this book at no charge from www.bloggingforbooks.com in exchange
for an honest review. You can purchase this book on amazon.
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