lavender flower tea Karner Blue Lavender

lavender flower tea Karner Blue LavenderGorgeously colorful Butterfly Pea Flower and Lavender Buds brew a vibrant blue cup that tastes like summer amidst lavender fields. We recommend this blend with a touch of honey or iced and mixed with lemonade for a fun, color changing lavender lemonade! Named for our native endangered butterfly, the Karner Blue, we are donating a portion of profits from all sales of this tea to the Wilton Wildlife Preserve, one of the remaining habitats for this tiny,

Gorgeously colorful Butterfly Pea Flower and Lavender Buds brew a vibrant blue cup that tastes like summer amidst lavender fields. We recommend this blend with a touch of honey or iced and mixed with lemonade for a fun, color-changing lavender lemonade!

Named for our native endangered butterfly, the Karner Blue, we are donating a portion of profits from all sales of this tea to the Wilton Wildlife Preserve, one of the remaining habitats for this tiny, endangered butterfly! Measuring barely 1" wide, the Karner Blue relies on pine bush habitats and wild blue lupine for survival. Once seen across the northern US from Maine to Michigan and even into Canada, there are now only a few scattered habitats for this brightly colored butterfly, including some in our own back yard!

Butterfly pea flower is popular for its color-changing properties, and we couldn't resist the parallels between the Karner Blue and butterfly pea flower in creating this blend. Brewing an intensely vivid blue, butterfly pea flower changes to a gorgeously vibrant purple when you add citrus, and so the idea of Lavender Lemonade was born. On its own, butterfly pea flower does not have much flavor, so expect this tea to taste mainly of lavender or lavender and lemon if you add some citrus to enjoy the color-changing effects! We are featuring this blend as part of a Lavender Lemonade drink special at our Tea Bar all summer, and you can purchase the Lavender Lemonade kit at a discounted price to make your own delicious Lavender Lemonade at home!

We'll also take this chance to remind you to plant for pollinators like the Karner Blue and our beloved honeybees! If you're curious about how to plant for pollinators, we recommend these guides by Cornell Cooperative Extension for our Upstate NY communi·tea and Pollinator.org resources for our wider communi·tea.