Ann Treneman
The Garden Cure
Remarkable Remedies for the Curious Gardener
Bad back? Cholesterol too high? Addicted to doom-scrolling? Broken heart? In this beautifully illustrated and thoroughly modern herbal you’ll find the horticultural answers to maladies of all kinds – for body, mind and spirit, as well as those that stem from the stresses and strains of everyday modern life. Dive in if you need help if you feel too sour or sore, have a splitting headache, a dull sex life or need help with the art of taking revenge. There’s a garden cure in this book for all of us.
Each cure comes illustrated with one of the exquisite historical drawings and paintings from the wonderful “treasures” in the RHS Lindley Library in London
In The Garden Cure you'll find solutions to all these modern-day maladies, and many more. Think of this book as a kind of green-fingered pharmacopoeia, a horticultural apothecary, an open-air medicine chest. Can gardening cure a broken heart? Can it help you take revenge on someone who has done you wrong? The Times gardening columnist Ann Treneman offers lessons in life galore - tales of snails and frogs, petals and perfumery all gathered from the garden.
