Yvonne Deutsch — The scented lavender book

Michael O'Mara Books Ltd. 2002; Hardcover; mooi exemplaar / fine copy. Lavender has been cultivated for thousands of years and still grows wild inong forgotten places. It is a plant that has always been beloved ofardeners, careful homemakers and apothecaries. Commercially grown in vastields, in Southern France and Eastern England, it looks like a misty blueake and the air is heavy with its scent, and yet lavender is equally at homen a pot on the kitchen window sill. Grown domestically in a shrubbery orlowerbed or used to form small hedges around a herb or kitchen garden,avender is that rare gift of nature in which nothing is wasted.