Have you tried blending your own tea?  Herbs for Health offer a wonderful article on the benefits of tea for refreshment, relaxation and medicinal purposes and offer these few suggestions for blending your custom tea:

• Use only three or four herbs in each blend.
• Include herbs that use the same brewing method, e.g., decoction or infusion.
• Use herbs that complement each other, such as a peppermint leaf with young dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) leaf—both are digestives and mild detoxifiers, but the mint adds flavor and fragrance to offset dandelion’s blandness.
• Add flavorful or fragrant herbs, such as strawberry fruit, rosehips, blackberry, lemon balm, anise hyssop, chamomile, mint, fennel, cinnamon or clove.
• To dry herbs, hang branches upside down in a cool, dark, dry place until brittle; or spread small flowers or clippings on a tray or in paper bags to dry.

It’s a great time to start your seeds indoors.  I just planted six different varieties this weekend and look forward to nurturing them even as the snow falls out doors.

 Do you have any recipes for tea made from the herbs in your garden?  Share them here.

photo from Tea Time Nashville

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