14 Summer Mocktail Recipes with Herbs and Flowers

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A collection of garden-fresh mocktails that you can make with fresh herbs, edible flowers, berries, and wild foraged plants. Each is as beautiful as it is delicious and naturally alcohol-free.

14 Summer Mocktail Recipes Made with Fresh Herbs and Flowers #alcoholfree

With warmer days here, picnics, BBQs, and other social gatherings are on the agenda—aka cocktails galore. Don’t get me wrong—I like a margarita just as much as the next person, but sometimes, I want a refreshing drink without alcohol.

This selection of herbal mocktails will ensure that everyone enjoys the summer festivities, including those who don’t drink, designated drivers, and those suffering from the night before. They’ll be even more delicious with edibles picked fresh from the garden.

Rose Lemonade

An easy rose-flavored lemonade that you make with simple syrup, lemon juice, and rose water. Recipe

Recycled tall jam jars filled with bright green limeade garnished with cucumber, lime wedges, and red and white striped straws.

Cucumber & Mint Limeade

All you do is add all the ingredients to a blender and serve it over ice. Simple! Recipe

Edible Flower Ice Cubes

Garnish any drink with ice cubes made with lavender, rose, pansies, violas, borage, and other edible flowers. Idea from A Woman’s Garden

Tall glasses filled with clear mojito, lime wedges, and sprigs of mint.

Ginger Mint Mojito Mocktail

Muddle fresh mint and lime together, then mix it with ginger beer. Recipe

Raspberry Rose Fizz

I love how beautiful and feminine this raspberry and rosewater mocktail is. You begin by making raspberry simple syrup, then mixing it with frothy egg white, framboise (raspberry) liqueur, gin, lemon juice, and sparkling water. Decorate it with fresh rose petals and serve. Recipe

A lovely soft-pink drink in a tall glass with a half-inch of froth at the top and a couple of pale pink rose petals as garnish.

If you would like to make your own rose water for this mocktail recipe, you can! Start with fresh, deeply scented roses from the garden and tap water. Create a makeshift distiller using a cooking pot and lid, and you could have homemade rose water ready in just an hour.

A slightly orange drink in a decorative champagne glass garnished with a small wedge of grapefruit and basil.

Ginger Basil Grapefruit Spritzer

A simple mocktail made with homemade basil syrup, grapefruit juice, ice, ginger soda, and freshly grated ginger. Recipe

Tumbler glasses filled with orange liquid, ice cubes, slices of tangerine, and sprigs of rosemary.

Tangerine & Rosemary Cream Soda

Very easy to make with rosemary simple syrup, rosemary, tangerine (or orange) juice, cranberry juice, and cream soda. Recipe

A tall glass filled with light pink lemonade and ice cubes and garnished with a slice of lemon and a turquoise and white striped straw.

Lavender Lemonade

You make this sweet summer mocktail recipe by infusing lavender flowers in a honey infusion. Cool, add lemon juice, and serve. Recipe

Short glasses filled with a smooth golden drink with a French lavender flower floating on top.

Lavender Hot Toddy

A late-summer mocktail that you make with lemon juice, lavender flowers, ginger, honey, green tea, and garlic (yes!) Recipe

Sparkling Peach Melba Mocktail

What I love about this recipe is how fresh and fruity it is! There’s peach muddled into the drink, plus tons of fresh peach slices you can fish out at the end and nibble on if you want. Plus, there’s fresh thyme for the right amount of herbal zing!

Light pink peach melba in a tall glass garnished with fresh thyme and slices of peach.

Peaches are a luxury to have in the garden, but thyme is relatively easy to grow. Not only does it do well in the ground and in pots in most places, but it’s also a perennial crop. Plant it once and harvest fresh thyme for years.

Glasses filled with ice, a light yellow drink, and garnished with fresh mint.

Mint Julep Mocktail

Make this mocktail with homemade lemony simple syrup infused with fresh mint leaves. Chill and mix with ginger ale to finish. Recipe

A salt-rimmed glass filled with grapefruit juice.

Grapefruit & Sage Mocktail

Place sage leaves, ice, and grapefruit juice in a shaker and shake to infuse the juice. Serve strained in a glass rimmed with salt. Recipe

Tall glasses filled with dark pink drink garnished with ice cubes, slices of lime, mint leaves, and watermelon balls skewered on a toothpick.

Watermelon Iced Tea Mocktail

This unique mocktail is an iced black and green tea blend infused with watermelon, fresh basil, and lime juice. It’s a great way to use up an entire watermelon! Recipe

Rosemary & Pear Spritzer

This sweet and summery mocktail recipe is adapted from the original created by Diana Yen of Jewels of New York. The ingredients you’ll need are:

Seven tall glasses filled 3/4 of the way with an opaque yellow drink and garnished with fresh rosemary sprigs.

Rosemary Simple Syrup
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 8 fresh rosemary sprigs
Per Spritzer Serving
- 2 oz chilled pear juice (or pear nectar)
- 0.5 oz prepared rosemary simple syrup (to taste)
- 0.5 oz fresh lemon juice
- 3 oz sparkling water or club soda
- Ice cubes
- Fresh rosemary sprig and thin pear slices for garnish

First, make the rosemary syrup. Combine the water, sugar, and rosemary sprigs in a small saucepan over medium heat. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring until the sugar completely dissolves. Remove it from the heat and let it steep for about 10 to 30 minutes. Strain out the rosemary and let the syrup cool completely before storing it in a jar.

To mix the spritzer, fill a highball or rocks glass with ice. Pour in the chilled pear juice, fresh lemon juice, and rosemary simple syrup. Top the glass off with sparkling water or club soda and give it a gentle stir. Garnish with a fresh sprig of rosemary and a slice of fresh pear.

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