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Very British.

While discussing things about tea and coffee (and their availability, in specific types, in both Germany and England), a friend sent me a link to a company making real British tea. As in... tea grown in Britain.

Tregothnan grows tea bushes in Cornwall and sells tea (different kinds) as well as tea bushes (in case someone wants to grow their own tea). The prices for the "homegrown" tea might be a tad higher than the price for tea in your common supermarket, though.

Now if I didn't have all available spaces filled up with the current experiments growing chili peppers (most being surprise seeds from a random crossing, so nobody knows what kind of peppers they will grow), the Coffee Plantation (down to a more manageable ten or so plants now, as I've gifted a bunch to other people) and the Passionfruit Plethora (because flowers! and passionfruit!), I'd be tempted to get a tea bush...
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Bruce on Wednesday, 29 July 2020 12:03

You do realize that tea bushes are just a bonsai-ed form of camelia, and a tree variety at that, and if you don't keep plucking all the new shoots off every few days they will quickly grow to around 20 metres tall.

You do realize that tea bushes are just a bonsai-ed form of camelia, and a tree variety at that, and if you don't keep plucking all the new shoots off every few days they will quickly grow to around 20 metres tall.
Katrin on Wednesday, 29 July 2020 13:11

I didn't realise that - what really keeps me from getting a tea bush, though, is the fact that a) I mostly drink black tea, and that would need fermenting; b) most of the black tea I drink is actually decaf; and c) care instructions say something about "needs a light and warm place the whole year round"... and things that don't survive winter in the wintergarden are more or less doomed here. Having an exploding 20 m high tree here, though, certainly is also a good argument against it!

I didn't realise that - what really keeps me from getting a tea bush, though, is the fact that a) I mostly drink black tea, and that would need fermenting; b) most of the black tea I drink is actually decaf; and c) care instructions say something about "needs a light and warm place the whole year round"... and things that don't survive winter in the wintergarden are more or less doomed here. Having an exploding 20 m high tree here, though, certainly is also a good argument against it!
Heather on Thursday, 30 July 2020 20:04

Challenge accepted!

Although we may have to wait until we move to a house that has more room...

Challenge accepted! Although we may have to wait until we move to a house that has more room...
Katrin on Friday, 31 July 2020 08:16

Let me know when that happens! And also how high your tea bush gets

Let me know when that happens! And also how high your tea bush gets ;)
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