Herbal Tea Gardens by Marietta Marshall Marcin
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast:
Herbal Tea Gardens by Marietta Marshall Marcin
Create your own herbal tea garden!
This inspiring guide covers everything you need to know to grow herbs and successfully use them in homemade tea blends.
Marietta Marshall Marcin provides plans for 22 themed tea gardens and offers expert tips for growing and harvesting various common herbs.
Marietta offers clear directions for more than 100 recipes, including flu brew, double green digestive, and women’s energized tonic. Before you know it, you’ll create enticing herbal teas to suit every occasion.
At the beginning of the book, Marietta shares the Chinese legend of the tea plant:
The White Buddha known as Ta' Mo would sit in his garden near the place and meditate through all the seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter. The White Buddha would meditate unblinking and unsleeping. Finally, after many years, His attention wavered, his chin dropped, and his eyes closed in sleep.
When the White Buddha awakened - Perhaps a day or year later - he was so angry with himself for neglecting his meditation that he took out a knife's life, sliced off both his eyelids and threw them on the ground.
The Saint's eyelids took root in the fertile soil and grew into a tea bush, the symbol for wakefulness.
I love to find books like this for you—oldies but goodies that are affordable on the used book market.
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