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Help Me Help My Neighbor Start A Tea Garden in Florida 10A

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Coconut Cream:
One of my very sweet neighbors has asked for my help with her garden. She grows some fruit but her real passion is making teas of all kinds. I've tried a few of them and it's wild how she combines ginger and turmeric and mulberry leaves and various fruit rinds into a hot or cold beverage.

She wants to expand what she is growing into a full blown tea garden. I made some basic suggestions like Roselle, Lemon Balm, Lemongrass, and Blue Butterfly Pea Vine. What else comes to mind that would work well and look nice in Florida 10A?

xesoteryc:
Tumeric makes the best tea for sure. I know people use passion flowers / leafs.

Hibiscus is an excellent addition. The most calming tea there is IMO

Nicola!@#:
All gingers, normal, turmeric, black ginger and all the rest of it. Passionfruit grows well from seed, anything citrus, vegetable, fern, tons of bananas, especially plantain, gynura, both varieties chaya, sauropus androgynus, all sorts of sweet potato, cassava, lemon grass. At the beginning I would stick some annuals under the trees. Also Brazil spinach, gotu kola, all sorts of taro, they look great. One of the nicest teas is the root of mondia whitei, if she doesn't want produce but tea.

Galatians522:
True tea, allspice, and cinnamon come to mind. Yapon holly was used by the Seminole and is one of the few North American plants that contains caffeine. Yerba Mate is also a Holly that is used for tea in South America. American Persimmon leaf has been used for tea, too.

As I ponder further...Silk Bay Persea humilis makes my favorite wild tea. A Florida adapted mint would be another good one. Sour soup and Guava are sometimes consumed for health benefits.

Pokeweed:
Fascinating thread! Loquat leaves, grape leaves, mimosa flowets. D

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