Die Magie der Pilze

Wie setzten weise Frauen, Apothekerinnen, Hexen und Kräuterkundige den Schierling und die Schwarze Nieswurz ein? Bringen Alraune, Farn und Silberblatt eher Nutzen oder Schaden? Dieses Buch erzählt die Geschichte der volkskundlichen Nutzung magischer Pflanzen und dokumentiert Glauben und Rituale, die sie umgeben. Ob es um das Vorhersagen des Wetters, den Schutz vor bösen Geistern oder das Herstellen von Salben gegen alle möglichen Gebrechen geht.<BR>»Hexengarten« beschreibt über 50 der stärksten, schädlichsten, legendärsten und sagenumwobensten Pflanzen der Welt. Vom Augentrost über das Johanniskraut bis hin zu Lilie, Lotus und Brombeere. Historische, kulturelle und heilkundliche Hintergründe runden die Pflanzenporträts ab. Botanische Illustrationen aus dem Archiv der Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, und historische Bilder zeigen faszinierende und mysteriöse Pflanzen. Lassen Sie sich mitnehmen in die zauberhafte Welt der magischen Pflanzen.

Gardens both real and imagined have long captured our imaginations. They are places of mystery and magic, beauty and danger, romance and revelation; writers have used them to reflect longing and create unforgettable moments of drama, escape, and wonder.Literary Gardens explores thirty of the most atmospheric and emotionally charged gardens in literature. From The Secret Garden and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Rebecca and The Great Gatsby, these fictional gardens capture the atmosphere and emotion of the stories they belong to. Some feel peaceful or nostalgic, others are rich with mystery or unspoken tension – each is shaped by the characters and moments that are revealed within them. In Literary Gardens, readers will uncover new stories and rediscover old favourites, guided by Sandra Lawrence’s lyrical storytelling and Lucille Clerc’s evocative vision.Literary Gardens is a tribute to the spaces that have stayed with us long after the final page – a perfect gift for yourself, or anyone who has ever wanted to step through the page and into another world.

Take a high-speed journey through the past, present and future in this illustrated book that celebrates the things that go!

'An amazing read! I galloped through it' Lady Antonia Fraser<BR><BR>'Lawrence has done an excellent job of recreating this eccentric gardening guru's life' The Times<BR><BR>'My pick for gardening book of the year is this page-turning life story of Ellen Willmott' The Sunday Times<BR><BR>'Sandra Lawrence tells her story with brio and affection' Daily Mail<BR><BR>'Simply brilliant and a joy to read' The English Garden<BR><BR>Ellen Ann Willmott was a remarkable woman whose achievements in horticulture, botany, landscape architecture, photography and more, should have made her one of the most well-known trailblazers of her age. Yet, both posthumously and within her lifetime, she instead became known as a bitter, cantankerous and eccentric miser, and her reputation has been forever stained by the image of her maliciously seeding other people's gardens with thorns.<BR><BR>The beginnings of this prickly myth can be traced back to her conspicuous absence at what should have been the pinnacle of her career: the Royal Horticultural Society's inaugural Victoria Medal of Honour Award ceremony, at which she was due to be one of only two female recipients. Universally interpreted as the rudest of snubs, nobody has ever stopped to question why Ellen wasn't there, or if she was really as difficult and mean as she has been portrayed ever since.<BR><BR> Author, Sandra Lawrence, has been granted unparalleled access to her archives, and with it has uncovered the secrets behind this thorniness. This is a book with it all: gossip, sisters, rivalry, squandered inheritance, forbidden love, bad marriages and, at the heart of it all, trailblazing talent.