The Botanical Home - Your Complete Guide to Using Plants to Scent, Cleanse and Enhance Your 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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Lawless, Lawless Julia
• Publisher: Wiley
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.11.2025
• EAN: 9780719831690
• ISBN: 978-0-7198-3169-0
• Dimensions: 189 mm x 246 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 536 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; SELF-HELP / Green Lifestyle, Green lifestyle & self-sufficiency, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, Self-sufficiency and ‘green’ lifestyle