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Turns out New Zealand's climate and conditions give us bigger, better and longer-lasting blooms in the garden.

Tea’s journey from China to India and on to the UK and Ireland came through espionage

Photograph: Jonathan Knowles/Getty Images Caffeine makes us more energetic, efficient and faster. But we have become so dependent that we need it just to get to our baseline Tue 6 Jul 2021 01.00 EDT After years of starting the day with a tall morning coffee, followed by several glasses of green tea at intervals, and the occasional cappuccino after lunch, I quit caffeine, cold turkey. It was not something that I particularly wanted to do, but I had come to the reluctant conclusion that the story...

Putting the Tea in Britain: The Scots Who Made Our National Drink

0 shares The Israela rose developed by Israeli mathematician Binyamin Amira, at the Wohl Rose Park in Jerusalem, April 2021. (Shmuel Bar-Am) A Callery pear tree at the Wohl Rose Park in Jerusalem, April 2021. (Shmuel Bar-Am) Zurich Square, in the Wohl Rose Park in Jerusalem, April 2021. (Shmuel Bar-Am) Door Opening, found in the German Garden at the Wohl Rose Park in Jerusalem, April 2021. (Shmuel Bar-Am) Japanese Garden at the Wohl Rose Park in Jerusalem, April 2021. (Shmuel Bar-Am) Seco...

Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up In a little wooden shack, a light breeze tinkling its wind chimes and tousling tea bushes nearby, Islay man Les Wilson sips fine China tea served with simple ceremony in tiny cups. But the award-winning writer and documentary maker is not in China. He is closer to Perth than Peking. Les is at the Windy Hollow Tea Estate, just north of Scotland’s Ochil Hills, where artisan tea ...

The chrysanthemum is possibly the one plant, above almost all others, that symbolises winter, says gardening columnist CEDRIC BRYANT. Cedric Bryant. FAMOUS 19th century plant hunter Robert Fortune, who introduced so many plants from China to the West, wrote in 1844: “The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are chrysanthemums.  “So high are these plants held, the Chinese gardener will cultivate them extensively even against the wishes of his employer, even...

Outdoors: Early wildflower colors spruce up spring landscape By Mark Blazis © Photo/Mark Blazis Opening day duck hunter Matt Blazis wades in a swamp to retrieve a mallard for his dad. While many of us sighted in our shotguns and bows for the forthcoming wild turkey season, we were all reminded last Friday that outdoors in April also means yellow splashes of forsythias, daffodils, and dandelions — and snow-white surprises. Up to 7 inches of the latter fell at higher elevatio...