Hyssop plants look like a smaller form of lavender, with spikes of blue flowers that smell slightly minty. Tea made from true hyssop has been used to help treat coughs, earaches, asthma ...

Growing herbs is part of any diverse, thriving garden. Most people tend to choose the usual suspects to plant—such as thyme, basil, and rosemary—but we want to challenge you to take your herb garden ...

Raspberry, bergamot, prairie rose, red clover and anise hyssop all make delicious ... While you're growing your tea flowers, ...

Anise Hyssop: Native to the mint family ... To promote new growth and more blooms, prune back the plant in early spring. Dry flowers for delicious tea throughout the year. To use, steep flowers ...

If you don’t harvest the flowers when they are in full color, they will go to seed, dropping their seeds everywhere near the adult plants ... hyssop in a simple syrup makes a nice base for sweet ...

THE first Tea Party got one thing right ... Newspapers published herbal recipes, mixing common plants like peppermint, marjoram, hyssop, rosemary, raspberry, lavender, fennel, dill and thyme.

cana (Texas hummingbird mint, mosquito plant). Two-feet-tall, white to dark rose spikes. USDA Zone 8. • A. foeniculum (anise hyssop ... licorice makes a fine tea; attracts bees.