Wild abandon

THE DOMESTIC HERBAL

rowing far more herbs than required has become a lockdown pastime; who would have thought one could have a glut of lovage? Time spent propagating made reading Margaret Willes’ book on these essential plants and their place in the 17th-century home pertinent. After the advent of the printing press, herbals were some of the first books available to the general market. (Culpeper’s is one of the most successful books