" In many of today's gardens beauty, colour and design are of paramount importance. But the gardens or backyards of old were commonly planted to be useful rather than beautiful -to provide food and medicine and to keep away witches. A revival of interest in herbal medicine and a concern to obtain chemical-free food are leading gardeners to examine their patches of earth and make their gardens multi-purpose rather than just pretty. The term 'useful garden' will mean people would instantly relate it to the food garden. While this book certainly covers food plants, we use the term broadly and we look at many other uses that plants and flowers can be put to once they have been picked. The aim is to inspire you to try something a little different, to use your plants in new, interesting, unusual and creative ways and to extend the pleasure you gain from plants and flowers from the garden to indoors. This bookazine is published by Universal Media Co - The Bookazine Specialist. Printed on high-quality paper, and featuring a beautiful design with accompanying imagery, bookazines are an informative and entertaining deep-dive into a complete topic. Universal Media Co's 53 magazine brands include leaders in Home, Craft, Bike, and some Lifestyle categories. The company owns the Australian Publishing Company and Universal Online Media. Universal Media Co is an independently owned private company. Additional Information Year Published: 2021 Size: 230mm x 297mm Pages: 128 Material: Made from premium quality paper "
The Useful Garden
Note from the editor
Introduction • The Useful Garden is all about creative ways in which we can use plants and flowers from our garden: the instant pleasure and decorative effect of fresh flower arrangements; drying flowers for arrangements or crafts; pot-pourri making and pressed-flower art and craft; and more practical uses of plants for cooking, remedies and cosmetic purposes. We provide a basic introduction on how to use plants in all these ways, offering dozens of creative and practical ideas and projects, plus a guide to growing the plants and flowers used in the projects. What was old is new again, and being discovered by a new generation of gardeners.
THE Useful GARDEN • Whatever your style of gardening or whatever plants you prefer to grow, whether purely for their ornamental value or for their uses, the first principle of successful gardening is to grow plants suited to the locality. This means you need to take account of climate, the type of soil, the amount of space available and location factors such as where your plant will be planted, and whether it will be in sun or shade, exposed to wind, salt spray or any other particular problem.
Edible PLANTS & FLOWERS • A garden that provides food is the ultimate useful garden, and vegetables, herbs and fruit form the mainstay of such a garden. There are so many edible food plants, so here we look at the more unusual and creative ones that can be grown and used in the kitchen, as well as some unusual and interesting ways to use more common plants. While we haven’t set out to tell you how to feed your family from your garden, we promise that some of the ideas here will prove delicious and will certainly provide you with a conversation topic around the dining table.
THE Medicinal GARDEN • There has been a phenomenal growth of interest in Australia and New Zealand in alternative medicine, particularly herbal medicine as supplementary to mainstream medicine. But while this interest is perceived as new, it’s far from new in traditional cultures who have long used plants as medicine. Herbalism could be described as the world’s second oldest profession. But it’s no longer the prerogative of witches and witch doctors, and scientific approval is being given to some of the information derived from ancient herbals.
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