What is blooming flower tea?
Blooming flower tea is a hand-tied tea ball that unfurls into a flower shape when you pour hot water over it. Artisans sew dried flowers (and sometimes tea leaves) into a tight ball using cotton thread. Each one takes about three minutes to open fully. As one visitor to our Tea Bar put it, it's "a magic moment when seeing the flower blooming in the tea pot."
Two types of blooming tea
Our Blooming Flower Tea ($7 each) comes in two categories. Pure blossom varieties (Lily, Chrysanthemum, Mixed Flower) are made from dried flowers only, with no tea leaves and no caffeine. The flavour is light and gentle. You can divide one ball into thirds for a lighter brew.
Tea-with-flower varieties (Carnation + Green Tea, Jasmine + Chrysanthemum + Green Tea, Lily + Black Tea, Chrysanthemum + Black Tea) combine flowers with green or black tea leaves. These have a slightly fuller taste and light caffeine. Brew one whole ball in 400ml of 90°C water for about 3 minutes, and you'll get 2-3 infusions.
A glass teapot or clear vessel makes the biggest difference here, since the bloom is half the experience.
Gift options
The Blooming Flower Tea Gift Box ($36) includes three pure blossoms and three tea-with-flower varieties, ready for gifting. Our Blooming Flower Tea Hamper ($90) adds a glass teapot, cup, bamboo coaster, and welcome guide. If you already have a teapot and just want one designed for blooming teas, the 700ml Glass Teapot ($75) has a wide body so the flowers have room to open fully.
We ship from Hobart with care, and gift boxes arrive ready to give.
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