Edible Landscape Plants and Trees : The Edible Parts of Plants and Trees Commonly Found In Gardens (Incredible Edible Series)

Whether it is because of an emergency, a tightened food budget, or just for plain adventure, many of the ornamental plants in your garden can provide a nutritious addition to your dinner table. Wouldn t it be great to know which ones? Here are 978 identified plants, with 328 color illustrations and photographs, the plants and edible parts of which you can eat. Wouldn t it be worth while to plan your decorative garden as an additional food source? Each of the books in this Series includes a cross referenced list of greenhouses and nurseries that have all these plants available, or that specialize in particular plants.

Some question has been raised about the validity and originality of the Edible Book Series. Over the eight years of their writing, our 2,000 sq ft greenhouse, the quarter acre garden and another park-like acre served as the proving grounds for her writing. . Inside, our kitchen was part of the plant testing, although I must say that some of those that reached our table were not favorites. The information collected was mainly west of the great divide, but not limited to the West. Over half of our lives was spent in California, from San Diego county- north. We lived in six distinctly different locations and climates from the sea shore, to desert, to mountainous.

Previous to digital cameras, we stored several thousand plant negatives, truly grateful for the arrival of scanners, megabyte storage and still confounded by gigabyte media. An undiscovered leak in our storage area ruined over 3,000 negatives. The five or six hundred CDs we have now stores the wide variety of photographs found in our books, 3,000 of which are in the Incredible Edible Series. Until photopaint software took over the task, our darkroom was frequently occupied. Several years ago, I sold our 4 X5 view camera and its press graphic cousin. Our first cameras had accessory lenses that we ground at the beginning of our sixty years together. She consulted every plant book source we could find. Fern lists, for example, the seed viability range from all sources as well as the consensus in years. The same information is included for germination time, soaking and other pretreatment, the country or location of origin, Latin, common , and foreign names, as well as how to prepare the edible parts for eating. A cross-reference listing of plant sources for seeds and cuttings is also provided in each book.