Lavender

Beh Mariann, a horticultural engineer, founded the small family business called Basil Garden in 2014. They make and sell tea mixes and seasoning salts using the medicinal and spice plants and edible flowers grown in their garden. His book A kert kynhjaja, published in 2018, presents the diversity of the uses of these plants with its special visual world and professional, yet entertaining descriptions. The protagonist of his latest book is lavender. Childhood memories are attached to this extremely exciting plant. Mariann has been growing lavender for years and uses it in countless ways, which she is happy to share with the readers in the columns of the book. In addition, it presents the different varieties of lavender, the cultivation, harvesting and processing of lavender, and the domestic lavender producers. All this is sealed by 30 lavender gourmet recipes.