"From garden design to cultivation, tips and details abound in this book of picture-perfect herb gardens."--Country Almanac Grow herbs for food, to use medicinally, to make under-used areas of the backyard pretty and fragrant--with the help of award-winning gardener and photographer Derek Fell. Any beginner will have a green thumb just following his foolproof instructions on: planning and planting, site and soil requirements, and after-carethemes and designs, from formal parterres to fragrance gardens to container groupings using the herbs--whether in cooking or handicrafts--and preserving the excess yield the best herbs to growpests and diseases Special boxes offer expert tips on topics from mixing flowers and herbs to planting a lawn of low, spreading chamomile or thyme. Best of all, sample garden designs offer ready-made plans for picture-perfect herb gardens!