Lavender for All Seasons

An essential guide to growing, using, and enjoying lavender year-round.

Lavender for All Seasons covers everything you need to know about the basics of growing lavender. Inspirational crafts and recipes that follow the seasons of the year will empower readers to discover how to integrate lavender beyond the garden and into the apothecary, pantry, and crafting space. For over twenty years, gardening expert Paola Legarre has been implementing sustainable farming practices, nourishing soil life, avoiding herbicides and synthetic fertilizers, rotating plantings with cover crops, and encouraging pollinators and beneficial insects through diversified plant hedgerows, and companion planting. With Legarre as a guide, readers will discover:

   ·The basics of growing lavender in different zones and conditions
   ·Growing requirements for healthy plants, including advice on pruning, pest control, propagation, and more
   ·An array of the best lavender varieties including species and cultivars for cooking, essential oils, crafting, landscaping and more
   ·Incorporating lavender as a key pollinator plant in your garden   
   ·How to harvest and preserve lavender flowers for multiple uses, including techniques for drying and distilling
   ·Enjoying the harvest with delicious recipes incorporating lavender as an essential herb in the kitchen
 

• “This special book is at once a generous and welcoming guide, definitive text, fascinating plant biography, and joyous love story. In these gorgeous pages a multi-talented author writes about the multi-talented plant she adores and knows so well, and you can’t help but come away with both the desire and ability to bring more lavender into your life in all sorts of ways. I’m now inspired to plant a whole new area of mainly lavender for our bees.”
   
  Lauren Springer, plantswoman, designer, and author