The Botanical Home

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

JULIA LAWLESS is a highly respected authority on aromatic plants and essential oils. Author of more than 20 books, she is the managing director of Aqua Oleum, a family company specialising in botanicals for over half a century. Julia is also a keen gardener and is an authorised meditation teacher.