Over the past couple of years I've been adding dried flowers and
fruits to my teas. I've had best luck sticking with green teas that
in themselves don't have much to offer. Or teas with flavors you
don't like such as a kelpy sencha. Or get a good deal on green tea
but gets tiresome everyday like gunpowder. I've revisited commerical
green teas with rose,osmanthus,jasmine and the likes and discovered
the green tea is on par with what I use. I just don't see a tisane
being used as a substitute for necessarily inferior tea. Another
phenomena you can still brew after the green tea has given up. It
would be cheaper on a limited budget to stock up on tisanes and a
green tea than many green teas. I rank tea + tisane with cream and
sugar and chai. I got started on this path when my local tea shoppe
started offering it's own tisanes with oolong and black. The owner
was very enthusiastic about this approach and it has taken me awhile
to come aboard about once a week. You can end up with a whole that is
greater than the sum of the parts.


Jim