Maya Herbal Blend – Cut Flowers and Herbs

Herbs from the meadow and garden

Maya Herbal Blend brings together plants familiar from hedgerows, meadows and herb gardens. Prepared in the Netherlands, this mixture combines leafy botanicals with flowers, fresh mint and the sweet fragrance of dried meadow herbs. Six ingredients give it a character rooted in familiar European plant life.

Its interest lies in how those different materials come together. Some contribute a clear aromatic note; others introduce the leaves and flowers of plants better known from the countryside or garden.

The herbs in the blend

Sweet clover is one of the most distinctive aromatic ingredients. Also called melilot, Melilotus officinalis develops a sweet, hay-like fragrance as it dries. Coumarin, a naturally occurring aromatic compound, helps account for that recognisable scent. Peppermint adds a contrasting freshness, bringing its familiar mint aroma to the mixture.

Raspberry contributes leaves from Rubus idaeus, the shrub best known for its summer fruit. Here, the interest is in the foliage, a botanical material with its own history in European herbal practice.

Red clover is also included as leaf. Although it shares a common name with sweet clover, it belongs to a different genus: Trifolium. These two meadow plants each have their own botanical identity within the recipe.

Calendula supplies the flower ingredient. Known as pot marigold, Calendula officinalis has a long history in herb gardens, valued for its conspicuous yellow and orange blooms. Marshmallow, Althaea officinalis, completes the six-plant selection.

Familiar plants in a complete composition

Maya Herbal Blend offers an approachable meeting of leafy herbs and flowers, with mint freshness and sweet-clover fragrance giving the mixture its aromatic interest.

For the same six botanicals with a finer cut and more selective sorting, explore Special Herbal Blend.

Keep well closed, away from moisture and direct sunlight. Supplied as a botanical specimen, not for human consumption.

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Selected references

• Alm, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2015) — coumarin formation in drying sweet clover
• European Medicines Agency — raspberry leaf as a distinct herbal material
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew — Althaea officinalis