Herbal Tea Plants

Brew a Fragrant “Cuppa” Straight From Your Own Garden! Growing your own herbal teas can be just as therapeutic as drinking them. The tea garden is a sensory delight, producing colors, aromas, and flavors to enjoy throughout the seasons. The plants are easy to grow and you don’t need a large area – even a few small containers will do. By drying the tea herbs and then blending and packaging them in your own unique way, you can share the bounty of your garden with appreciative friends and family. In 15 Herbs for Tea you’ll find everything you need to know about growing and using tea herbs, from information on planting and maintaining your herb bed to how to harvest, dry, and blend the herbs. In case you don’t have the time and energy to grow your own tea herbs, you’ll find a list of sources for buying them in bulk. Best of all, you’ll learn how to brew a delicious cup of tea!

Homegrown Tea explains how to grow a large variety of plants in your own garden, on a balcony or even on a window sill could become your tea cupboard. It shows you how to grow your tea from seeds, cuttings, or small plants, as well as which parts of the plant are used to make tea. Liversidge lays out when and how to harvest your plants, as well as information on how to prepare the plant, including how to dry tea leaves to make tea you can store to last you throughout the year. As a guide to using tea to make you feel better, there are nutritional and medicinal benefits. Finally, there is an illustrated guide to show how to make up fresh and dried teabags and how to serve a delicious homegrown tea. It is sustainable way to look at a beverage, which is steeped in history and tradition. Sample drinks include well-known plants such as rose hips, mint, sage, hibiscus, and lavender, as well as more obscure ones like chicory, angelica, apple geranium, and lemon verbena.

Herbal Tea Garden for Newbies: A Beginner's guide on How to Grow, Care for, and Harvest Your Own Tea Garden You may cultivate your favorite tea herbs and more in a tea garden. Tea herbs are beautiful and fragrant. Plant seeds and nectars attract birds and butterflies. Sit in your tea garden with these lovely critters and drink your herbal tea. Growing homemade tea is easy and healthy! Winter's lower temperatures make me drink more hot drinks. I can only drink so much coffee a day! My latest obsession is garden herbal teas, a healthy option. Growing your own tea at home has several benefits, including no chemicals or plastic packaging. As an extra advantage, many tea plants and fruits are therapeutic. You can cultivate tea plants in your current plants or establish a tea garden near your kitchen. Herbs make fantastic tea, but in summer you can turn the tea from the garden into a cocktail. This great book will tell you everything you need to know about tea gardening or herb cultivation, from the beginning to the end.

This book shows how to plant, maintain, harvest and enjoy a productive backyard tea garden, with a comprehensive survey of all the crops that make delicious tea drinks, plus advice on cultivation, harvesting, drying, storing and brewing.

Freshly blended herbal teas offer more healing power than do pre-packaged tea bags. In Healing Herbal Teas, master herbalist and author Sarah Farr serves up 101 original recipes that not only offer health advantages but also taste great. Formulations to benefit each body system and promote well-being include Daily Adrenal Support, Inflammation Reduction, and Digestive Tonic. Additional recipes that address seasonal needs such as allergy relief or immune support will attune you to the cycles of nature, while instruction on the art of tea blending will teach you how to develop your own signature mixtures to give your body exactly what it needs. This book is an enchanting and delectable guide to blending and brewing power-packed herbal teas at home.

While there have been many claims of the benefits of teas through the years, and while there is nearly universal agreement that drinking tea can benefit health, there is still a concern over whether the lab-generated results are representative of real-life benefit, what the risk of toxicity might be, and what the effective-level thresholds are for various purposes. Clearly there are still questions about the efficacy and use of tea for health benefit. This book presents a comprehensive look at the compounds in black, green, and white teas, their reported benefits (or toxicity risks) and also explores them on a health-condition specific level, providing researchers and academics with a single-volume resource to help in identifying potential treatment uses. No other book on the market considers all the varieties of teas in one volume, or takes the disease-focused approach that will assist in directing further research and studies. Interdisciplinary presentation of material assists in identifying potential cross-over benefits and similarities between tea sources and diseases Assists in identifying therapeutic benefits for new product development Includes coverage and comparison of the most important types of tea – green, black and white

Herb Gardening 20 Best Tea Herbs to Make a Tea Herb Garden! In this book you will be introduced into the world of herbal teas from growing them to enjoying sitting down and having a nice cup of herbal tea in the comfort of your own home. I can tell you from experience that there is nothing better than drinking herbal tea that you grew the herbs yourself in your own herbal garden. I can't begin to tell you how nice it is to grow your own herbs, the smells alone are so wonderful and intoxicating. Not only can you enjoy a cup of herbal tea for the taste of it, but herbs possess many qualities that can benefit us in different ways such as in medicinal ways. They can even be a great help at keeping the pests out of your garden. Herbal teas have been enjoyed throughout human history, often with them they were thought to carry not only medicinal but even magical properties. Herbal tea is looked upon as one of the healthiest drinks in the world. We as humans enjoy the wonderful tastes and flavors of the many herbal teas while it contributes to our health at the same time. The tea experts of the world only look at white, oolong, pu-erh tea to be considered real teas. Tea plants contain caffeine, antioxidants, flavonoids that are very beneficial in helping fight against heart disease and cancer. The teas mentioned above all come from the same origin, and offer health benefits-they are bursting with all kinds of antioxidants and help to prevent and reduce cancer. They can help to reduce cholesterol levels, blood pressure and blood sugar, as well as help in the treatment of obesity. In this book we will take a closer look into the kinds of teas that you might want to include in your tea herb garden.