![]() ![]() Many common garden plants are actually toxic. Let common sense guide you, and remember, just because a plant is natural doesn’t mean it’s safe. Tea from catnip (Nepeta cataria) and chamomile (Anthemis nobilis) can relax you and help you sleep. Many herbal teas have medicinal properties. Try calendula (Calendula officinalis), marshmallow (Althaea officinalis), and bee balm, also known as echinacea (Monarda ssp). ![]() Many common flowers will do double duty as ornamentals and as herbal teas. Members of the mint family are always popular teas, such as peppermint (Mentha piperita) and spearmint (Mentha spicata). The best way to make your own homebrew tea is by experimenting with various combinations. Luckily, many common herbs make a wonderful caffeine-free tea.ĭuring colonial times, when nearly everyone had an herb garden, newspapers often published herbal recipes, with ingredients such as lavender, peppermint, marjoram, hyssop, raspberry leaves and dandelion.īut not every herb from the garden makes good tea, which is why you never hear of parsley tea. While most of the tea is black tea from the semitropical shrub Camellia sinensis, the plants are sensitive to cold and only hardy to USDA Zone 8. ![]() According to World Tea News, we drink 25,000 cups of tea every second, or around 2.16 billion cups per day. Tea is the most popular drink in the world. Lady Nancy Astor once scolded Winston Churchill by saying, "If you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.” Churchill replied, "Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.” ![]()
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