iced tea plants

[Hibou]

I have to pick up some herbs this week, and I'd like to know what some people's favorites are for iced tea. Recipes would be great!

[bstandlee]

I've been using any herb I would normally use for hot tea. Recently I've made chamomile, lemon balm, and peppermint. I liked them all. DH doesn't like anything remotely "flowery" (perfumey in his words) but I think they're good! Oh, and also calendula petals (although that's not really an herb). Have fun!

[Rhiannon Feimorgan]

I like to mix half and half nettles and mint (mostly because I have lots of them growing around my house)

[Aubergine68]

Couldn't do with out mint, spearmint, lemon balm, or chamomile.

Also, dried rose hips (from wild roses or heritage ones, by preference). You don't gather those till fall, though.

I also sometimes like a sprig of lavender.

Love rhubarb `juice', though it is really more like tea than juice (boil stalks of rhubarb, strain out stalks, cool and drink liquid, maybe sweetened) to mix with herb teas. Had some sweetened rhubarb juice ferment on me once -- it was the best thing I ever tasted. But I was pg so I didn't do more than taste it.

[Hibou]

Thanks for the suggestions. I haven't had a chamomile plant for a few years, but I think I will pick one up this year. I don't think my mints made it through the winter, so I'll have to get a mint or two for sure- one of ds's favorite teas. I've been nurturing the few nettle plants I've found here and there in the garden:. Love the idea of rhubarb juice- I've got 2 plants that hardly get used, but I imagine that tea/iced tea would be lovely.