Heavenly hydrangeas: why New Zealand has the best garden plants in the world
Turns out New Zealand's climate and conditions give us bigger, better and longer-lasting blooms in the garden.
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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 I was writing demanded it. Several of the experts I was interviewing had suggested that I really co...
Putting the Tea in Britain: The Scots Who Made Our National Drink
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