Paola Legarre Is the author of a new and enchanting book by Timber Press called Lavender for
All Seasons A Gardener’s Guide to Growing and Creating with Lavender Year-Round.
This book is not just «dedicated» to people interested in planting, cultivating tons of lavender, but to all the passionate ones, intrigued by the topic or with the desire of embellishing their homes, with some plants.
Everything started in the San Joaquin Valley, California, when little Paola understood the power of plants, and their beauty thanks also to the ability of her ancestors and relatives in transmitting this passion.
The contact with nature became part of her. She writes in the foreword: «Experiences of scent, texture, light, and transformation hold on and have the power to lead one to a destiny one never would have imagined or predicted».
Fascinated by lavender, at first Paola planted just 40 plants: then she decided to move on, buying a farm in the high desert at an elevation of 4800 feet. She is cultivating now more than nineteen thousand plants and more than sixty-five cultivars. They have ten acres and six are covered just with lavender.
They called the farm Sage Creations and this reality is now welcoming visitors. They also hold classes, create a lot of products with lavender.
This book will help you to find the proper lavender plant based on your climate, but also for the purposes you intend to plant it.
Then of course you'll understand how to harvest your lavender, discovering also how you can use it in your kitchen, or how you can prepare lavender-crafts or succulent recipes with chocolate and lavender! Honey sounds to be incredibly good and so tasty!
Kenneth Redding, the photographer of this book has done a beautiful work!
Highly recommended book to the appassionate of lavender and nature in general.
Anna Maria Polidori
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