An indoor potted herbal tea garden will help keep your favorite tea cup filled with the sweet and savory goodness that is herbal tea.
After its planted, the potted herbal tea garden can be planted and grown indoors. The potted herbal tea garden is ideal for compact spaces, apartment living, or do adorn a kitchen.
The potted herbal tea garden could also be left on a porch during warm weather, or in warm climates, or it can be left to grow and share its aromatic nature on an inside table near a window.
Growing a potted herbal tea garden is a convenient way to home grow herbs to make your own herbal teas and herbal tea blends. The herb teas can be grown and used in a cup of tea, or stored for later use.
Both the herbal teas and the actual potted herbal tea garden make great gift ideas for the herbal tea lover in your life.
Materials Needed for Plant a Potted Herbal Tea Garden
A large, but not too deep planter
stones
tea herbs
soil
Herbal Plants to Plant a Potted Herbal Tea Garden
Before planting the potted herbal tea garden think about your favorite herbal teas and their ingredients. Pick and choose your favorite flavors. Some people may want to make more than one potted herbal tea gardens.
This list includes the herbs that are suited both to growing indoors and to tea making are listed below. There are other herbs which would work in outdoor tea garden.
Chamomile
No indoor potted herbal tea garden would be complete without the subtle and soothing leaves of the chamomile plant. Chamomile leaves and flowers can be plucked fresh and used to make herbal teas and blends, or they may be dried and then stored for later tea use.
Coriander
Coriander will give herbal teas an almost Early Gray taste. Coriander tends to add a bit of an acidic flavor that is reminiscent of citrus fruits.
Fennel
Fennel may not be an obvious choice for an indoor potted herbal tea garden. Fennel adds the tangy taste of licorice to an herbal tea.
Jasmine
Use the delicate white flowers of jasmine to make an aromatic and strong herbal tea.
Lavender
Aromatic lavender may not be the right flavor for everyone. You may enjoy its scent more than its flavor. Use the flowers of thelavender to make herbal tea.
Both the seeds and the leaves of Lemon Balm can be used to infuse tea with a lovely sweet licorice flavor.
Lemon Verbena Use the leaves of this super lemony herb to flavor teas.
Mint
Use the leaves of the mint plant to make stomach soothing herbal teas and herbal tea blends.
Thyme
Thyme is another of the many stomach-soothing herbs that can be grown indoors and used in tea. Thyme leaves add a bit of spice to the tea.
Herbal Plants to Plant a Potted Herbal Tea Garden
Line the bottom of the container with stones. Remove each tea herb from its container and plant in the container, leaving enough space for each one to stretch its roots comfortably. Fill in between each herb plants’ roots with soil.
Use markers to designate each herb.
A variation is to use a large square window box container and keep the herbs each
