Box of seeds - Herbal teas
It's possible to sow, plant, grow, dry and enjoy your own herbal teas and infusions! This seed kit contains everything you need to make it happen:
- A selection of 6 organic, reproducible seed packets
- 6 growing instructions for each species
- The book Mon cahier de tisanes
- 24 wood fiber cups
- An organic cotton bag
- 1 gardener's notebook
What does the Plantes à tisanes seed box consist of?
It's made up of a selection of 6 organic, reproducible seed sachets. These varieties have been selected for their medicinal virtues.
The book Mon cahier de tisanes explains in a precise and illustrated way how to use the plants around us to treat everyday ailments (stomach, head, throat, legs...).
The wooden fiber cups are biodegradable, so there's no need to take the plant out of the cup. Simply place it directly into the hole when planting.
The organic cotton bag allows you to filter all your herbal teas, no matter how finely ground.
The cultivation sheets are a goldmine full of generic information on the species, and are a precious ally for cultivating and consuming the varieties.
Varieties in the box of herbal tea seeds
This species is one of the 50 most essential plants in traditional Chinese pharmacopoeia. It produces fine, silvery foliage and upright stems bearing mauve flowers, which are highly attractive to melliferae.
It is used to treat diarrhea, gastric problems, nausea, vomiting, fevers and colds.
This white-flowered variety produces short, pointed, light-green leaves with a lemony flavor that lingers after drying. Excellent in herbal teas.
This variety produces an abundance of flowers with delicate, wispy golden-yellow petals.
This bushy perennial has many medicinal properties. Its lemony-scented leaves are used both fresh and dried, as aromatics, in infusions, liqueurs and desserts.
This variety produces numerous spikes of magnificent double, pompon-like flowers in shades of red, pink, yellow and white all summer long on 150 cm-high vines.
From spring to autumn, this variety offers orange and yellow flowers for mellifaction, dyeing and numerous medicinal properties.
It is the best-known Calendula officinalis. The origin of the name "Calendula" comes from the fact that it flowers all year round, during the calendas (1st day of the month in Roman times) of each month.
