There are innumerable varieties of Thyme but only a few are used for culinary, medicinal or industrial purposes. The most commonly used are Thymus azoricus, Caraway (T. Herba barona), Garden (T.... *
Thyme Leaf Tea - 25 tea bags "I was thrilled to be able to buy thyme in bags instead of filling my own tea bags. That's a great time-saver. I had not found the bags at any health food stores. The taste is superb! Your service was fast, and your extra email communication was very ..." -- Katrina (retired teacher)
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There are innumerable varieties of Thyme but only a few are used for culinary, medicinal or industrial purposes. The most commonly used are Thymus azoricus, Caraway (T. Herba barona), Garden (T. vulgare), Lemon (T. citriodorus), Wild (T. serpyllum) and T. Zygis.
Propagation: By seed, all but the Garden variety are difficult to germinate; by layering; by division of roots.
Nature of Plant:T. azoricus - Beautiful for a rock garden and in between stepping stones; vivid, dark green foliage of oblong linear leaves in mounds which increase slowly from year to year but are liable to winterkill unless kept dry; has a citrus fruity odor; lilac-colored flowers in June.
Caraway - Prostrate growth; fine ground cover for sunny places as it spreads rapidly and in June is covered with rosy colored flowers; odor definitely caraway.
Garden - A little shrub that grows a foot high, almost evergreen; pale lavender flowers all through June; grayish green, strongly aromatic foliage.
Lemon - An excellent ground cover like a carpet with long, thick pile; golden green foliage with pinkish flowers in July; quite a rapid spreader; odor definitely lemon.
Wild - Also called Mother of Thyme, Mountain and Creeping Thyme; growth varies from low mats to 9-inch high mounds; the mauve-pink flowers appear in June.
T. Zygis - A trim little shrub about 4 inches high with gray-green foliage and pale purple flowers; resembles Garden Thyme but has white hairs at base of leaves; liable to winterkill.
Spacing of Mature Plants: Low, spreading mat-making varieties about 10 inches apart, the more erect, shrubby thymes about 6 inches apart.
Cultural Requirements: Thymes need light, sandy, limy and well drained soil in raised beds; mat varieties like to climb over rocks and prefer slopes; all thymes need full sun. Garden Thyme should be kept well dipped to prevent its getting too woody and will have to be renewed every 3 or 4 years; several varieties of this thyme include common English thyme, the dark green, broad-leaved English thyme, and the gray-green narrow-leaved French thyme; thymes should be mulched for winter and covered so that snow will not settle on them, particularly T. azoricus and T. Zygis.
Uses
T. azoricus and T. Zygis-Leaf: (Culinary) In creams and custards.
Caraway - Leaf: (Culinary) Rubbed over meat to preserve and flavor it.
Garden - Leaf: (Culinary) In vinegar with other herbs, in sauces for meat and fish, in cocktails, croquettes, chipped beef, fricassees, with pork, veal, in soups and chowders with onion, in cheese, carrots, peas, scalloped onions, stuffing; (Household) in aromatic baths, sachets, tea; (Industrial) deodorants, anesthetics, gargles, perfumes, embalming fluid, destroys mold on herbarium parasites, preserves anatomical specimens, anti-mold for paper, in herbal tobacco, Benedictine, liquid dentifrices, wounds, toothaches, masks odor of iodoform and naphthalene, hair dressings, soap; (Medicinal) sedative, in bronchitis, whooping cough, indigestion, flatulence, coughs and in numerous formulas.
Lemon Thyme - Leaf: (Culinary) In teas, baths and jellies.Wild Thyme: Used about the same as Garden Thyme; oil of Serpolet made from Wild is milder than Oil of Thyme made from Garden.
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Fresh drawn, boiling water contains the most oxygen, thereby giving the fullest taste to tea. Water that has been boiling for some time looses the oxygen and thereby the best taste.
Allow full expansion during the infusion and easy removal after the time for steeping has elapsed.
Draw into a tea pot or kettle the best fresh water that you have available.
Warm the teapot and cups while the water is boiling.
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PhytoVie manufactures a wide selection of therapeutic and aromatic teas. The PhytoVie manufacturing process guarantees the quality and consistency of each and every tea bag. Our buyers select only the highest premium quality teas each season, importing from around the world. Each tea bag contains only the finest quality ingredients.
I was thrilled to be able to buy thyme in bags instead of filling my own tea bags. That's a great time-saver. I had not found the bags at any health food stores. The taste is superb! Your service was fast, and your extra email communication was very much appreciated.
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Katrina
(Profession: retired teacher)
The only thyme tea we tried before was this Manana and we liked it very much. We hoped that the brand you are selling will be something similar since as you can see from a web site the Manana products are not available for purchase over the web, but we where disappointed since your product tasted like a medication. I would suggest you contact the above-mentioned manufacture to learn how real mountain thyme should taste like.
Sorry for a harsh review, but we thought that we should tell the truth since all our order went to the garbage bag.
[Editor: Yes, we know what mountain thyme tea should taste like, and it is a real shame you decided to throw out such a terrific product before finding out more details on what you bought.
Mountain thyme is also known as wild thyme (both are Thymus serpyllum). Wild thyme is not quite the same as common thyme or garden thyme (Thymus vulgaris). We sell both types of thyme tea and we have made sure to put the word 'wild' in the names of the wild thyme teas.
The thyme leaf tea you purchased was regular thyme leaf tea, and may not have met your expectations because of that fact. Both varieties have a similar biochemical makeup, but slightly lower concentrations of the active compounds are found in wild thyme, the older European variety of the two.
We cannot speak for the specific variety, quality, or flavour characteristics of the other brand of thyme tea you mention. We have not compared them with ours and we don't know which variety of thyme they use in their tea (they don't clarify it). We can assure you that our teas are made from fresh herbs that meet a high standard of purity and potency, and any 'medicinal' flavour you may have perceived from the tea was the naturally strong and pungent flavour of the herb without any fillers or flavour modifiers.
Typically, a fresh herb yields an intense, spicy flavour. Keep in mind that a smoother, mellower taste experience is not what we're after here - If the herb is bitter or harsh or, yes, even medicinal, then that is the flavour that nature intended, accompanied by all the natural health benfits of the herb. For more of a flavourful taste experience, we offer another lines of teas less geared towards health and wellness. We apologize for any misunderstanding of the thyme teas, and we regret that our product didn't meet your expectations.]
