What can cool you down on a hot summer day, pair with cakes at a fancy brunch, and soothe a sore throat on a frosty winter night?
Author: Linda Martin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9798729970285
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What can cool you down on a hot summer day, pair with cakes at a fancy brunch, and soothe a sore throat on a frosty winter night? It's the second most consumed beverage in the world, tea. From its roots in China over 4,000 years ago, tea made its way across Asia and Europe and into the homes and hearts of people around the world. Along with its widespread popularity have come endless ways of preparing tea. One of the most popular ways Americans serve hot tea is brewed it with herbs, such as lavender and mint. Some people forgo the tea altogether and brew the herbs on their own, making herbal infusions known as tisanes. No matter how you make it, tea is a delightful addition to most any meal. Growing a garden of tea and herbs can allow you to enjoy your own blends, as well as the beautiful flowers and aromas of fresh herbs. Here, we'll teach you how to plant and harvest some of the more popular tisanes and teas.
Or do you just like the idea of thought-out themes? Whatever the case, I've prepared nine different plant layout suggestions for your garden. If you have the space, you could even create all eight of these gardens in different spots.
Author: Jodi Helmer
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 9781620083239
Category: Gardening
Page: 179
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You Love To Drink Tea. Why Not Grow Your Own? If you’ve ever considered raising your own tea, this comprehensive guide is the place to start. Growing Your Own Tea Garden is packed with inspiration and practical instructions for cultivating and enjoying delicious teas. Author Jodi Helmer helps you plan and plant a productive backyard tea garden, with sample garden designs and cultivation advice. She shows you how to choose the right crops for your soil and climate, starting with the tea plant (Camellia sinensis) and going on through a comprehensive survey of tisanes, or herbal teas. Discover how to grow the full range of herbal infusions that make wonderful teas, from flowering chamomile and lavender to chicory roots, rose hips, lemon verbena, peppermint, aromatic bergamot and more. Jodi shows you how to harvest, dry and store your tea to enjoy all year long, along with brewing tips and creative recipes. Inside Growing Your Own Tea Garden · Everything you need to know to create a healthy, bountiful tea garden and enjoy high quality tea · How to grow dozens of crops that make marvelous teas, herbal infusions and decoctions · Sample tea garden designs, including instructions for growing tea in container gardens and raised beds · Understanding the differences between black tea, green tea, white tea and herbal tea · How to dry and store your leaves for consumption on cool autumn days · Let it steep: how to brew the perfect cup of tea
In this comprehensive handbook, you’ll discover tea’s ancient origins, learn about the single plant that produces white, green, oolong, and black teas, and discover step-by-step instructions for plucking, withering, and rolling.
Author: Christine Parks
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 9781643260303
Category: Cooking
Page: 208
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"Plant a tea plant and watch it grow! Grow Your Own Tea is truly a masterpiece how-to guide to cultivating and enjoying the sacred leaf. It will delight even the armchair gardener and casual tea lover." —James Norwood Pratt, author of James Norwood Pratt’s Tea Dictionary Tea lovers, make a fresh pot, sit down with this delightful guide, and discover the joys of growing and processing your own tea at home. Tea farmer Christine Parks and enthusiast Susan Walcott cover it all from growing tea plants and harvesting leaves, to the distinct processes that create each tea’s signature flavors. In this comprehensive handbook, you’ll discover tea’s ancient origins, learn about the single plant that produces white, green, oolong, and black teas, and discover step-by-step instructions for plucking, withering, and rolling. Simple recipes that highlight the flavor of tea and creative uses for around the home round out this must-read for tea fans.
illuminating stepping-stones at night leading to the teahouses. You may choose to emulate Asian styles and establish your own Japanese tea garden. One of the greatest lessons to be learned from these venerable gardens is the connection ...
Author: Annie Martin
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 9781604697162
Category: Gardening
Page: 240
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“This is a fascinating books for anyone wanting to truly broaden the range of plants they grow.” —Gardens Illustrated Moss is an extraordinary plant—it grows without roots, flowers, or stems. Despite being overlooked, in many ways, moss is perfect: it provides year-round color, excels in difficult climates, prevents soil erosion, and resists pests and disease. In The Magical World of Moss Gardening, bryophyte expert Annie Martin reveals how moss can be used in stunning, eco-friendly spaces. The beautifully illustrated guide includes basics on designing and planting a moss garden, and an inspiring tour of the most magical public and private moss gardens throughout the country.
The tea garden requires just enough space for a path through a narrow outer garden to an enclosed inner garden , which contains a waiting pavilion , or a bench and a teahouse , and a touch of rock and greenery . The basic layout , which ...
Author: Ortho
Publisher: Meredith Books
ISBN: 0897214897
Category: Gardening
Page: 112
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Getting started -- Designing a Japanese garden -- Elements of Japanese gardens -- Plants for Japanese gardens.
Do you like tea, and are you aware of its benefits? Do you want to create your tea garden, but you don't know where to begin? If yes, this is the right book for you! Tea is one of the most popular natural beverages.
Author: Green Div
Publisher:
ISBN: 9798517550286
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Do you like tea, and are you aware of its benefits? Do you want to create your tea garden, but you don't know where to begin? If yes, this is the right book for you! Tea is one of the most popular natural beverages. It is consumed in countries all over the world and has been for many years. Green, Black, Oolong, White and Pu-erh teas have been growing in popularity as their health benefits are being discovered by more people every day. Most of these benefits are related to tea's antioxidant content. The healthiest teas on the market are Green, Black, and White tea. All these teas come from the same plant, but they differ greatly in how they're prepared. Learning how to grow your tea garden, even in your backyard, can provide you with a steady supply of this wonderful beverage. Plus, you can add these healthy plants to your edible garden as well. Unlike other healthiest food crops, like vegetables and fruits, growing your tea garden is unexpectedly easy. Just follow the tips in this book, and you'll have your tea garden well on its way. Be sure to learn the proper way to prepare your teas. All of the different varieties require different methods to achieve their full flavor and health benefits. This manual covers: History and tradition Tea nutritional and medicinal benefits How to grow your tea from seeds, cuttings, or small plants How to choose the right crops for your soil and climate Instructions for growing tea in container gardens and raised beds ...And much more! If you want to learn more about growing your tea, then read this book. It is a comprehensive list of instructions that will take you through the entire process. Click "Buy Now" and get started immediately!
See the reference section of this book for a list of public fragrance-related theme gardens you can visit for ... It creates the perfect aromatic setting to entertain a friend or enjoy a good cup of tea made from herbs grown in your own ...
Author: Kathi Keville
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 9781604697537
Category: Health & Fitness
Page: 276
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“Kathi guides you to all the joys of an aromatic garden with wonderful tips, fascinating facts, and sumptuous photos.” —Mandy Aftel, author of Essence and Alchemy and Fragrant Fragrant plants can be as therapeutic as they are intoxicating, and it is easy to add them to gardens large and small. The Aromatherapy Garden reveals the scents, secrets, and science behind fragrant plants, and shows you how to successfully create your own plant-filled sanctuary of health and happiness. Detailed plant profiles provide guidance on the full benefits of a range of plants and include comprehensive details on how to grow and care for them in a home garden. Also included are recipes for restorative aromas, oils, sachets, teas, and more.
You don't have to be an avid gardener: Author Alex Paul m.d, a food and farming journalist, provides all the information you need to plan and plant a healthy, bountiful backyard tea garden, with nine suggested garden designs and useful ...
Author: Alex Paul M D
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ISBN: 9798687194426
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Growing Your Own Tea Garden is packed with inspiration and practical instructions for cultivating and enjoying delicious teas from a variety of plants in your own personal tea garden. You don't have to be an avid gardener: Author Alex Paul m.d, a food and farming journalist, provides all the information you need to plan and plant a healthy, bountiful backyard tea garden, with nine suggested garden designs and useful cultivation advice. She shows you how to choose the right crops for your soil and climate, starting with the tea plant (Camellia sinensis) and going on through a survey of tisanes (aka herbal teas). Explore a directory of over 60 ingredients, including medicinal herbs like milk thistle, chickweed, rugosa rose, burdock, and more, with notes on their active properties and purported health benefits.Discover how to grow the full range of plants that make wonderful teas and herbal infusions, from flowering chamomile and lavender to chicory roots, rose hips, lemon verbena, peppermint, aromatic bergamot, and more! Jodi shows you how to harvest, dry, and store your tea to enjoy all year long, along with brewing tips and creative recipes specially formulated to provide natural remedies for headaches, upset stomach, and stress.An included plant index shows you how to grow dozens of crops that make marvelous tea drinks, herbal infusions, and decoctions. Included are instructions for growing tea in container gardens and raised beds; understanding the differences between black tea, green tea, white tea, and herbal tea; harvesting, drying, and storing your seasonal leaves for consumption on cool autumn days; and how to brew the perfect cup of tea.You'll also find tea garden designs to help you grow a garden that works for your lifestyle and can help address common ailments, offer immune support, provide a natural and nourishing health boost, and support stress management. Do you suffer from tension headaches? Try growing the Headache Tea Garden with its vibrant tufted violet and trumpet honeysuckle. Do you enjoy a good party? Try the Hangover Cure Tea Garden! Are you stressed out and having trouble unwinding or falling asleep? Try the caffeine-free Relaxing Tea Garden or the Sleepytime Tea Garden. If you're feeling tired, sluggish, or just need a burst of energy to fight that afternoon slump, skip the coffee: the Fatigue-Fighting Tea Garden will put some pep in your step! There are designs for an Immune-Boosting Tea Garden, Tummy Troubles Tea Garden, and more!Don't buy store-bought blends when homegrown is so much better! You'll find everything you need to know to start growing, blending, and brewing your own high-quality tea inside Growing Your Own Tea Garden!
The ERBAĽTEA GARDEN Create the Perfect Cup of Herbal Tea ! The myriad uses forherb - teas — potions thought to be ... The Herbal Tea Garden offers herbalt lovers a complete handbook for selecting , growing , and brewing herbs , f .
Author: Marietta Marshall Marcin
Publisher: Storey Books
ISBN: CORNELL:31924059252209
Category: Herbal teas
Page: 224
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Traces the history of tea, describes the care requirements of herbs, and covers drying, freezing, storing, and blending herbs.
Many of these same motivations apply to tea gardens, but with some unique aspects as well.Here are but a few of the benefits of growing your own tea: Full accountability: The supply chain begins and ends with you.Freshness guaranteed: ...
Author: Linda Lynn Ph D
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ISBN: 9798682625499
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There are many legitimate reasons for starting a home garden. You could fill a post listing the benefits that motivate gardeners. Many of these same motivations apply to tea gardens, but with some unique aspects as well.Here are but a few of the benefits of growing your own tea: Full accountability: The supply chain begins and ends with you.Freshness guaranteed: Straight from your garden to your cup.Organic or conventional: Choose your preferred gardening methods.Make what you like: Store brand teas are often limited in quality and variety.Open-ended project: Tea plants live for decades and will forgive your mistakes.Grow a working hedge: Your tea hedge won't just be for looks.Make new friends: Tea is to be shared.Possible side income: You never know where your tea craft could take you.Tea craft is fun! This has to be true or else it's not worth it.And besides all these great benefits, who grows and crafts their own beverages? You'll be the coolest kid on the block!First steps in growing teaNow that you know why you should grow tea, let's discuss how to determine if you have a realistic chance of creating a thriving tea garden, starting with the basics.What is tea? Know your plantThe tea plant C. sinensis is a woody, long-lived shrub that may grow twenty to thirty feet tall if left unpruned (you will definitely prune your tea). Tea camellia and related camellia species occur naturally in forests and along forest edges where soils are rich in organic matter and minerals.Though the history and genetic ancestry of tea are disputed, it is generally accepted that there are two comprehensive varieties of tea nested within the C. sinensis species. One is a variety of tea with small leaves that is originally from southern China and is designated "var. sinensis." This variety of tea, which is also called the "China type," is generally preferred by planters in cool climates though it can tolerate some degree of heat stress as well.The other variety of tea has large leaves and is generally cultivated between Assam in eastern India to Yunnan province in southwestern China. This variety is designated "var. assamica" and often called, more simply, the "Assam type." The Assam type is preferred in warm, sub-tropical, and tropical areas where it seldom, if ever, freezes in the winter