Margaret Brownlow

Margaret Brownlow Margaret Eileen Brownlow (1916 – 17 February 1968) was an English author, illustrator, herb farmer, and garden designer. She is noteworthy for her 1963 herb garden design at Knole#Collections Knole. Herbs and the Fragrant Garden (1957) Borage BORAGE. Borago officinalis ...This is a most decorative Annual plant annual herb, with pink buds on stems covered with purplish-grey hairs that glisten in the sun. The flowers are intense blue with a black cone of anthers. The plant usually grows 18ins. to 2½ft. high. Herbs and the Fragrant Garden Herb Farm Ltd 1957 https://books.google.com/books?id=AjciAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=borago 60 (140 pages) Rosemary Prostrate Rosemary grows some 6–12in. high, spreading laterally, with a "japanses" style of growth, and has mint-blue flowers, like the type. It needs a really warm, dry and sheltered spot outside and is a risky investment, but makes a delightful cool greenhouse plant, with the flowers coming out in February and March, an encouraging harbinger of spring. Prostrate Rosemary is also suitable as a specimen for a sheltered sink garden. p. 107 The Delights of Herb-growing (1965) In one home, the newly-wed is learning to cook, and as her husband enjoyed straight English cuisine, she is enchanted when her roast chicken with its parsley, Thymus citriodorus lemon thyme and marjoram stuffings, is a success. In another home, with more adventures tastes, the Hungarian goulash of steak, potatoes and onions, is (unusually for our palates) flavoured not only with marjoram but with the pungency of caraway seeds. The Delights of Herb-growing published by Margaret Brownlow in conjunction with the Herb Farm, Ltd 1965 2 (228 pages; 1st part of code; last part of quote) A striking plant from Tibet, the asafoetida has stimulant properties, and is a close relative of Ferula communis giant fennel (Ferula communis) which it resembles to some extent, as it has the typical divided foliage and inflorescence of the Apiaceae Umbelliferae (the Heracleum maximum cow-parsnip family). p. 160 External links Category:1916 births Category:1968 deaths Category:Illustrators from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Women authors from England Category:Women born in the 1910s