In this book, you will learn how to: • Grow, nurture and gather plants and herbs from seed • Clean your home with a botanical cleaning kit, including surface cleaners, fizzy toilet tabs and scented laundry products • Make garlands, posies and exquisite flower arrangements • Prepare flower waters, hydrosols and botanical perfumes • Fragrance your home naturally with homemade incense, reed diffusers, pomanders and aromatic wax melts • Invite the outside indoors, with planting ideas for every season • Use houseplants to purify the air and beautify your home • Soothe body and mind with aromatic bathing, elemental meditations, fragrant oils, herbal vinegars and healing tisanes • Blend and dry flowers to make potpourri, sleep sachets and insect-repellent sacs • Delight your senses by creating botanical shrines, scented candles, pressed flower designs and flower petal paper
Discover how to grow and use plants to enhance and care for your home naturally, with the professional guidance of botanical expert, Julia Lawless. Superbly illustrated, The Botanical Home gives step-by-step instructions on how to make over 60 recipes for a multitude of household uses, from eco-friendly surface cleaners and laundry detergents to creating fresh flower arrangements and healing teas, for sustainable living.
