The Healing Garden - Couverture rigide

Minter, Sue

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 190391941X ISBN 13 : 9781903919415

Editeur : Eden Project Books, 2005

Synopsis

A guide to planting so that you can unleash the healing properties of your garden.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sue Minter's horticultural career includes time as Supervisor of the Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Curator of the Chelsea Physic Garden; and joining the Eden Project team at the start of the Project. At Eden she was Head of Living Collections, in charge of all plant exhibits. Sue lives near Plymouth in Cornwall

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

Gardens can offer a welcome retreat from the stresses of everyday life, providing links with the natural world as well as giving us a chance to relax. The Healing Garden shows how we can make the best use of the power of the plants in our own gardens to heal, soothe and stimulate.

In the sixteenth century, apothecaries and physicians began creating physic gardens and teaching the medicinal use of plants. Today an astonishing 85 per cent of all pharmaceutical drugs still rely on plant sources. Sue Minter looks at the plant origins of many major drugs as well as the latest reserch into drugs of the future. More importantly, she explores how each of us can use plants for healing, showing how they can benefit the whole person, both physically and emotionally, through the five senses of taste, sight, hearing, smell and touch.

The core of the book is practical: it is packed with down-to-earth advice on choosing and growing plants that are both ornamental and sources of good health, whether as remedies for common ailments or as natural reserves of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Included are treatment methods and recommendations, suggestions for planting schemes and guidelines for garden design.

Benefiting from major new discoveries over the past decade, and from Sue Minter's unique experience, The Healing Garden is imbued with the style and ethos of the Eden Project and is equally inspirational.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Eden Project Books
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 190391941X
• ISBN 13: 9781903919415
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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