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What flowers would be good for flowering tea?

 
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I'd heard of flower teas and always thought that they were too difficult to do at home, also access to jasmine flowers and green tea leaves is a bit limited where I live. However I came across this video recently and was a bit inspired by it!



It seems that you can use other flowers and leaves to make a similar flower tea ball!
This one illustrates dandelion tea, but I also found one that used clover flowers. I guess the limits are just any flowers and leaves that are edible.

Has anyone tried making flower tea like this? What flowers did you use or what other flowers do we think would be suitable? Any tips to share?

make your own flowering tea
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I'm thinking it could be a good high end value add for herbal teas for example....
 
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Thank you for reminding me how gorgeous these are. I think rose would be my first choice: I love making rose & mint tea.
 
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I think you got it. Try different blends have fun. One time when I was cleaning my garden I saved up bits and pieces of dried herbs and flowers and made this really beautiful blend. It was so good and the scent was heavenly to me. But I don't think I could ever recreate it haha.

I remember it had some chamomile, bit of sage, mint, lavender tiny bit, dried grapefruit peel or any citrus, some wildflowers here and there I was smelling them before I picked, just sort of went off my sense of smell. I was cleaning up the garden so I sort of threw everything in there and mix it all up. it smelled so good. I remember the honey I added was locust that made it smell really good.
 
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