My Favorite Cup of Tea – Linden Flowers Tea

My grandfather was the biggest linden expert I’ve ever met in my life. In my memories, I can still see him, standing in the front yard, smoking his ever present pipe and looking with love and admiration upwards, in the greenness of the linden tree, growing above the road passing by, in the curve of the driveway. After a few minutes of observation and several neatly shaped clouds of smoke, he would tell me how many days before the linden flowers are going to be ready for picking and drying - for year-round supply of delicious tea that (at least in my experience) provides more warmth to your body than any other herbal tea. The picking of the linden flowers took a few days and he would always start on the south side, where the leaves reached that mature golden color w View the rest of this article