Handmade Roses Tutorial

For so long now, floral teas or flower teas have been a part of the tea culture for so many generations already. Probably the most popular of all is the traditional Chinese teas which have often been made from a combination of black, green, oolong and white teas with roses, chrysanthemums and jasmine, among others. You can prepare floral teas and herbal teas with just the same method. But with some patience and a little recycled stuff in your house, you can easily make your very own handmade flower tea.

We all know that flowers really make a good decoration to your home but that's not the only purpose they have. Some flowers can be made to be herbal teas, whether you can use them alone or together combine them with other flowers or mixed with a tea like black or green tea. If you think this is hard to do, well then you're wrong. Handmade flower tea is very easy.

Here are the steps on how make flower tea:

• In picking for flowers, cut flowers that are pesticide free with a stem of 3 and 12 inches. Use scissors or pruning shears for cutting.

• Tie the flowers together tightly at the base of their stems with string. Leave about a foot of string loose at the base for hanging purposes.

• Hang the flowers upside down from a hook, nail or screw, and allow them to dry. The amount of time required will depend on the size and type of flowers. Petals are ready for mixing with tea or other herbs when they are completely dried out and crumbly.

• Break off the flowers from the stems and place them in a bowl. You may want to break up larger flowers. You can leave smaller flowers intact.

• Add between 20 and 30 percent of dried flowers to dried tea leaves (black, oolong, green). The type of tea leaves is a matter of personal taste. Adjust the percentage of flowers to taste.

Even though there are some flowers that you can't make as a tea but you can go for the popular choices there is such as the rose, hibiscus, chamomile, jasmine and chrysanthemum. The best choice of material in making your very own handmade flower tea is the dried flowers and you can find many of these at vast assortment at the nearest local health food store.