Well, I think experimentation is in order and I shall record adventures in "herbology" as go through them. I've worked with dried mint leaves, only a few times with fresh leaves - or I don't recall it going well enough such that I repeated it... I've used fresh mint leaves for other things - just not tea brewing.

Tonight, I pulled off a bit of a work-a-day coffee cake so as to take it over to my brother's for Father''s day. The real Molly's AlphaHumanMom is making cherry pie from the cherries they picked in the back yard late yesterday morning for dessert. So the garden is off to a flying start and crazy mint plant has just met its match, or will when I start snatching its leaves for tea [insert evil laugh.....can't decide if I am a muwhahaha type or a bwuhahahah type - I don't have the baritone to pull it off either way really.]