Lavender for All Seasons: A Gardener's Guide to Growing and Creating with Lavender Year-Round

 

Lavender for All Seasons is a graphically pleasing and information rich volume by lavender farmer Paola Legarre. Released 3rd June 2025 by Hachette on their Timber Press imprint, it's 264 pages and is available in paperback and ebook formats. 

Beautifully photographed throughout, it's part memoir/recollection with instagram worthy lifestyle shots as well as panoramic views of lush and abundant lavender fields in bloom looking like they came straight out of Provence, and part practical tutorial guides for selecting, growing, maintaining, harvesting, and using lavender of various cultivars.

The author is experienced , seems to really know what she's talking about, and includes a lot of interesting scientific background (and some spiffy macro and electron microscope photos of lavender parts. The photography is top notch throughout and it would make a lovely coffee table book just for the photographs. 

The crafting/tutorial parts of the book are simple enough for all crafters. Tools and materials are given in a bullet list. Measurements are given in imperial (American) units, with a conversion chart for metric included in the back of the book. All the tutorials (and there are many, both culinary and crafting), are very well photographed with easy to follow instructions. The crafting tutorials include wreaths, floral arrangements, sachets, oils, cleaning/shampoo/& scented products. 

The author/publisher have also included bibliography and links & resources lists in the back of the book as well as a cross-referenced index. 

Four and a half stars. It's a beautiful, inspirational book. The commercial cultivation content parts of the book will have a relatively limited audience, but the inspirational aspects are great (and it's possible to adapt parts of her advice to home gardens and smallholdings). 

It would be a great choice for public or home library acquisition, as well as for community garden/coop/gardening group libraries. 

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.