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The Lavender Lover's Handbook: The 100 Most Beautiful and Fragrant Varieties for Growing, Crafting, and Cooking
Contributor(s): Bader, Sarah Berringer (Author)
ISBN: 1604692219     ISBN-13: 9781604692211
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
OUR PRICE:   $25.16  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: May 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Gardening | Herbs
- Nature | Plants - Flowers
- Cooking | Specific Ingredients - Herbs, Spices, Condiments
Dewey: 635.933
LCCN: 2011032472
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 7.8" W x 9" (1.60 lbs) 192 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

"The best recent all-around lavender book with something for gardeners, crafters, and cooks alike." --Library Journal

Lavender is beloved for its and culinary and medicinal uses. In The Lavender Lover's Handbook, Sarah Berringer Bader provides a complete overview of the 100 most colorful, fragrant, and stunning varieties. You will discover expert tips on spacing, planting, pruning, and care and maintenance. Additional information includes tips on how to harvest, cook with, and preserve the plant, along with step-by-step crafts and project that use lavender in beautiful and soothing ways.


Contributor Bio(s): Bader, Sarah Berringer: -

Sarah Berringer Bader has always been drawn to lavender. In 2000 she purchased a five-acre farm south of Portland, Oregon, and after visiting the Sequim Lavender Festival in Washington and seeing rows and rows of this wondrous herb, decided to create a test plot of 365 plants despite knowing nothing about planting lavender. She learned through trial and error, helped by a little-known society of lavender pioneers who had dedicated their careers to cultivating, growing, and preserving the true species of lavender. Soon she purchased many varieties of lavender from a seasoned grower in Oregon who had propagated starts from his own extensive collection acquired over a twenty-year span.

In 2005 she planted almost 5000 lavender plants with more than ninety cultivars and began propagating her own starts from cuttings. She opened her farm to the public and began holding the classes that inspired this book. Sarah and her farm, Lavender at Stonegate, have been featured in regional publications, on television and radio, and in Grower Talks and Country Gardens magazines.