Flowering Teas

If you like drinking tea and/or growing flowers, this is for you. A flowering tea is one that is made up of individual tea leaves woven together to form a small ball-- slightly smaller than a ping pong ball. When steeped, the ball opens up and blooms into a very showy flower-like specimen.

The result of my first flowering tea is pictured above. That one flower ended up making three batches of tea, and probably could have gone for one or two more. It's best to use a transparent, glass teapot to steep in so you can watch the progress. It's quite neat and there's many different types of flowering teas to try out.