The raspberry leaves are fully dried quickly indoors. I crushed them simply by hand and used a big ceramic jar to collect them. I like the smell and used about one teaspoon to mix with dried rose and mint for a cold brew herbal tea.
This morning, I harvested another bunch of chamomiles and put them in a vase. Before I am in the mood to pick the flowers, they will stand there as a pretty piece.
When I have some minutes, I can easily pick the well-blossomed flowers and let them dry in the greenhouse. Those still in the vase or the garden will keep growing - no pressure, no hours of hard work on those tiny flowers.
When they are dried (under current weather, two or three days are more than enough), I just collect them into a jar. With this method, I can enjoy harvesting them very much.
I also harvested mint, basil, parsley, and the flowers of elderberry. It's the first year that I do use a lot of herbs, and I hope one day, I will make my own herb pillows.
It's time to collect elderberry flowers - most plants in my garden belong to the normal white flower variety. The photo below is the flower of black elderberry. People here usually make them into syrup. I will only pick a small portion of them and wait for the elderberries.
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