Blooming Flower Tea

Loved this, just as advertised

The media could not be loaded. These bloomed so beautifully and I had them on display at a tea party. In a large sized wine glass 🍷 it was beautiful and perfect! Water must be boiling drop it in 5-8 mins it will bloom fully. Did a little time lapse just to see if it would bloom fast. It did in like 5 mins was fully bloomed. Be gentle if you need to transfer it to a taller glass like we did.

Delicious !

I liked some of the flavors a lot (orange, tangarine etc), but some of them tasted like perfume smells. ick. The flowering part is really cool to see.

I've been buying expensive packs of blended blooming tea, it got too hard on my wallet, so I started looking for a different brand that I could afford. This, honestly, tastes way better than the bitter spinach I was getting.The major reason I drink this tea is the health benefits, I have Lupus, which does not like my liver. The herbs in these blends are potent antiinflammatories, with other benefits. Amaranth is even a pain killer. My sister sent me a tea set with a canister of a different brand, and it worked miracles. None of the other brands I tried could work the same. This one does.I have had trouble with the flowers blooming and detaching, because I don't brew them correctly to make that happen. But it's still not as much as the expensive brands- most of the time those NEVER bloom- I have to take a fork to them. These always blossom without fail. The trick to making them pretty is to not fill the teapot higher than the flower will blossom, and very slowly pour just-under-boiling water over the bulb, try not to let it tumble around in the pot. I don't drink them for the aesthetic, so it doesn't bother me.Also, keep in mind, all blooming tea takes at least 15min to bloom. Unlike bagged or loose tea, which takes 2-7min to steep. When the water starts to turn amber, after an hour or so (the fuller the pot the longer it can go), take the flower out. Let the flower cool before putting it into a mostly fresh, half filled, pot. Fill it the rest of the way, slowly. Keep some of the old tea in the pot when you refill it, the flower will steep easier. You can fill the pot higher than the first batch, since the flower is already water logged and should sink to the bottom.Using water that is well passed boiling temperature, or has simmered for an extended period of time, will cause the tea to be bitter, and Jasmine will turn into spinach. Too cool of water will cause the flower to not, or take for ever to, bloom. If it does, the flavor will be very weak, and Jasmine will taste like spinach. Low quality Jasmine leaves will always taste like spinach.Believe it or not, green tea and green tea blends from China are usually the highest quality, comparable to only Japan. They have been cultivating and brewing it for at least 5,000 years. The west world only started drinking it very recently, and our growers do not have the same respect. We don't have the same history with it. Not noble, medicinal, or ritualistic. Our relationship has been exoticism and capitalism. I see a lot of people refuse to buy green tea from China, but that is a flavor-fatal mistake. That's like refusing to buy wine made in Italy.Contamination scares are reasonable, but not founded, when it comes to tea.

Shared with my friends, they were very happy with them and so was I.

Not great, not bad. They are fun to watch, but they don't look like the pictures. They look more like weeds, at least min did. I think they are a great item, considering...I rate it 3 since they are not bad, and not great...

I bought these for my first time because I love the way my rose tea taste and thought I look for some other "flowery" tea flavors. I saw these and thought they looked pretty and fun. They had a good variety, and I also love Jamsine tea. My daughter had given me one of the little glass tea pots years ago and never knew what to use it on. Not only did I try some lovely tasting tea, but I got to use my pot!😊 They open up so beautiful. However, not all of them stay sitting on the bottom of the pot. Some of them float. That's mostly on the ones with small flower set up.They are very easy to make. I just sweeten with a little maple syrup and a little honey. Let it steep for about 10 mins and serve.I will order again.