LIZ'S EDIBLE GARDENS-No Rules, Just Fun!
Liz Barbour is an avid home gardener and often uses her own fresh herbs and edible flowers in her cooking demonstrations and features photographs of her cottage-style garden in many of her programs. Her gardens have been featured in New Hampshire Magazine, New Hampshire Home, New Hampshire Chronicle and Colorado Home.
With the popularity of her cooking classes, Liz was inspired to write her first cookbook Beautifully Delicious: Cooking with Herbs & Edible Flowers (Liz Barbour's, Creative Feast 2017). Her book is full of gorgeous photographs and contains over 60 of Liz’s favorite flavor-inspired recipes using herbs and edible flowers. Each easy-to-use recipe offers simple variations and step-by-step instructions to help create two or three different Beautifully Delicious meals.
With the popularity of her cooking classes, Liz was inspired to write her first cookbook Beautifully Delicious: Cooking with Herbs & Edible Flowers (Liz Barbour's, Creative Feast 2017). Her book is full of gorgeous photographs and contains over 60 of Liz’s favorite flavor-inspired recipes using herbs and edible flowers. Each easy-to-use recipe offers simple variations and step-by-step instructions to help create two or three different Beautifully Delicious meals.
A Note from Liz
In 1999 we found our Circa 1744 gambrel perched on the edge of a small, unadorned lot hugging the curve of a busy village street. With no fence and no gardens, I knew it was the perfect home for the garden that would grow with my family.
I have been told there are no rules for a cottage garden. With this in mind, I decided that a cottage garden was the perfect design for me. The combination of formal and informal elements is a plan that allows me to add plants that I choose on impulse or receive as gifts. A cottage garden gives me the freedom to mix fruits and vegetables with edible and non-edible ornamentals in a variety of ways. And, a cottage garden allows me to move my plants anywhere, as many times as I want while still looking like I know what I am doing. Don't be fooled though, I don't really know what I am doing, but I love doing it (and redoing it)!
Many of the perennials came from my mother’s garden in Connecticut and so the gardens provide a way for my family to remember her throughout the seasons. Other plants come from good friends and make me smile each time they bloom. This is a garden that is meant to be shared and I am so happy to be sharing it with you.
Enjoy!
Liz
I have been told there are no rules for a cottage garden. With this in mind, I decided that a cottage garden was the perfect design for me. The combination of formal and informal elements is a plan that allows me to add plants that I choose on impulse or receive as gifts. A cottage garden gives me the freedom to mix fruits and vegetables with edible and non-edible ornamentals in a variety of ways. And, a cottage garden allows me to move my plants anywhere, as many times as I want while still looking like I know what I am doing. Don't be fooled though, I don't really know what I am doing, but I love doing it (and redoing it)!
Many of the perennials came from my mother’s garden in Connecticut and so the gardens provide a way for my family to remember her throughout the seasons. Other plants come from good friends and make me smile each time they bloom. This is a garden that is meant to be shared and I am so happy to be sharing it with you.
Enjoy!
Liz