Picture a garden thick with fragrant herbs and bright with blossoms, where pollinators happily stumble about in glutted bliss. A garden where you can pick leaves to create your own delectable concoctions… drinks which are nature’s way of healing the body, and alternately calming and refreshing the soul.
We’re talking about a herbal tea garden. And you can grow your own.
We’re here with some delightful organic gardening inspiration for growing a heavenly herb garden where you can harvest leaves, stems and roots, brew them up, and revitalize mind, body and soul. We’ll share our favorite herbs to grow for tea, along with some of their health benefits, and other awesome tea garden thoughts.
Plants you need in your herbal tea garden.
Mint:
Strong, refreshing flavor
Loads of varieties… and they each taste different
Natural breath freshener
Helps with indigestion
Lemon verbena:
Refreshing, lemony flavor
Beautiful sprays of tiny white blossoms
Soothing
Helps with indigestion and insomnia
Rosemary:
Delightful, perfumed flavor
Empowers brain functions
Boosts the immune system
Lemon grass:
Refreshing, lemony flavor
Helps fight thrush and dandruff
Can lower cholesterol
Lavender:
· Soft, perfumed flavor
· Soothing
· Gorgeous blue, purple or white flowers
· Helps heal skin
· Improves sleep quality
Bergamot:
Refreshing, perfumed, citrus flavor
Fights infection
Relieves pain and stress
German Chamomile:
Soft, perfumed flavor
Gorgeously cheerful, daisy-like blossoms
Deeply soothing
Helps digestion
Soothes inflammation
Coriander
Deliciously strong, savory flavor
Benefits the heart and brain
Helps fight infections
Thyme
Soft, savory flavor
Soothing
Fights bacterial and fungal infections
Stevia
Natural, healthy sweetener
Very low calories
Helps with weight loss if substituted for sugar
Borage
Refreshing cucumber flavor
Beautiful, bright blue blossoms
Helps heal skin
Soothes a cough
Fennel
Delightfully strong liquorice flavor
Packed with vitamins and minerals
Anti-inflammatory
Benefits the heart
Basil
Savory, perfumed flavor
Soothes mind and body
Helps heal skin
Ginger
Powerful, sweet flavor
Energizing
Natural antibiotic
Helps heal lung and throat infections
Helps relieve mild headaches
Soothes nausea
Awesome tea garden facts.
Lots of herbs grow better in garden pots than they do in soil beds. So, if you live in an apartment, you can still grow a magical, fragrant, colorful tea garden! Stock up on some plant pots like these biodegradable peat pots to get started.
Most herbs provide generous amounts of fodder for bees. This means that your herbal tea garden isn’t just healthy for you… It also benefits the environment and your local ecosystem.
The finishing touch for your tea garden.
The final piece of your incredible tea garden: a dreamy outdoor spot where you can relax and enjoy your homegrown, freshly brewed tea.
Here are some Pinterest boards of our favorite ideas:
A romantic English tea garden spot.
A peaceful zen garden retreat.
A dreamy, fragrant rose arbor.
A cozy covered porch.
Written by Rifke Hill
About the Author
Rifke Hill was raised on the sort of farm your grandparents told tales about – milking cows, gathering eggs, hoeing the soil, and building fires to heat water. She now spends part of her time copywriting online as a freelancer. The rest of it is spent nurturing and teaching her four energetic children, growing vegetables, baking bread, reading voraciously, having coffee with the neighbors, and enjoying the sunny slopes of the smallholding where she lives, in the Garden Route, South Africa.
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