Drying lemon verbena leaves

Earlier this year I got hold of a lemon verbena plant. It smells beautiful, and helps satisfy my love of herbal tea - just pluck some of the leaves and pop them in boiling water, it tastes gorgeous!

It's starting to lose it's leaves now, which is normal for this time of year. Come Spring it should start blooming again.

To stretch out my little home grown supply, I've been harvesting and drying the leaves. They dry out SO easily - I just lay them out on some kitchen roll for a couple of days and that's all that's needed.

A pot of tea with these will inject a little lemony sunshine into a grey Autumn/Winter day!