Lavender Tea ~ Original Art By Red Dust
Watercolor and Gouache Painting With Tea Recipe
- 3 tablespoons of freshly cut flowers, dice
- 8 cups of boiling water, remove from heat set aside
- Sweeten to taste with honey
- Add diced flowers and stems to the hot water. Let sit for 10 minutes, strain out flowers and serve.
- 1 tablespoon of Fresh flowers diced or 1 tablespoon of dried flowers crush.
- 1 cup of hot water
- Add flowers to your water steep for 5 minutes, strain out flowers.
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Lavender is easy to grow, the plant needs lots of sunlight and well drained soil. I read you need slightly alkaline soil but I never tested mine and my seedlings were very happy. Prep the dirt so it is weed free and there is no danger of frost, the seedlings like warm weather, around 70 degrees, so maybe start your seeds inside first if you can't wait for the warm weather.
Lavender seeds are really tiny, I mix mine with sand if I'm just throwing seeds in the ground. It's easier to plant them in little peat pots, you have more control over germination and you can see the sprouts when they come up.
Important thing to remember, don't over water the peat pots. I use a spray bottle to keep the pots moist until germination occurs. You need good air circulation sprouting seeds inside, I use a little fan placed near my peat pots to keep the bugs and fungus at bay.
Depending on how warm the seeds environment is, it will take 4-6 weeks to germinate. Once the seedling reaches a couple inches in height you can transplant, peat pot and all into a bigger container or to your garden.
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Very well painted lavender. We have some too in our garden and the insects really like it. :)
Beautiful:)
Thank you, the process gave me fits though....the mirroring of the table made me nauseous and I had some technical issues...now I can laugh and my skill set has improved.
The tea of lavender is magic, for how much healings serve, every day you learn something new many thanks my great friend @reddust for spreading
You are welcome my good friend @jlufer, lavender is one of my favorite herbs.
Interesting post. Well written and informative.
I really envy the way you managed to achieve the impression of a metallic finish on the teapot. Adding the recipe was a clever idea.
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