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It was an expensive product. Today there are tea plantations in the Scottish highlands and on the rugged moorlands of Cornwall.
In this clip he visits a tea plantation and has a go at picking tea leaves himself.
Is tea grown in england. The tea plant is an evergreen tropical plant from the Camellia family tea Camellia sinensis has green shiny pointed leaves - not dissimilar to privet hedges seen in Britain - and. On average every UK citizen consumes around 2 Kilograms of tea each year. And considering that some grown-ups and most children drink no tea or a little of it through the year the amount of tea UK citizens take each year is higher than 2 kilograms.
British tea drinker stereotype is considered positive. A number of small and growing tea plantations are now based in the US. South Carolina boasts the largest and is owned by Bigelow.
However the largest concentration of tea growers are based in Hawaii. Just outside Truro England is the recently formed at least in Tea history Tregothnan tea estate England. Its simply a descriptive name as plain black tea is very commonly drunk in Britain which includes England Wales and Scotland.
Earl Grey tea was named in honour of Earl Grey not made by him and the brand Yorkshire Tea is not grown in Yorkshire. They want to associate the. Tea and the Britain have a shady history.
The British brought tea to England by way of monopolistic trade smuggling drug dealing and thievery. The tea plant from China became one of the most important commodities of British trade during the 17th-19th centuries. A Very Brief History of Teas in Britain and Ireland Tea was first brought to Britain in the early 17th century by the East India Company.
It was an expensive product. Adventurer and journalist Simon Reeve heads to Kenya to uncover the stories behind Britains favourite drink. In this clip he visits a tea plantation and has a go at picking tea leaves himself.
Tea was being sold more widely in England by 1657 in Londons existing coffee houses but it was called Tcha China Drink Tay or Tee and was generally sold as a remedy to cure all ills. From fatigue and lack of virility to overall poor health and diseases of all kinds and it was expensive. Black tea is the most popular in the UK accounting for 70 of the varieties consumed daily.
Herbal and spice teas are the next popular at 36 while green tea 34 and instant tea 17 follow behind. Britain and Ceylon Tea Around the same time that Tea Clippers sailed across the world a plant based disease called Coffee Rust had severely damaged the economy in British Ceylon present-day Sri Lanka. Years before however a Scotsman named James Taylor had already begun experimenting with Tea growing in Ceylon.
Tea grown in India or Ceylon is poured from silver tea pots into delicate bone china cups. Nowadays however in the average suburban home afternoon tea is likely to be just a biscuit or small cake and a mug of tea usually produced using a teabag. Tea is now being grown in England.
Its happening on the Tregothnan Estate in Cornwall where tea is now being grown and manufactured. Grow your own tea Tea is the nations brew of choice and an incredible 165 million cups of tea are drunk every day in the UK. And amazingly the tea plant is easy to grow at home According to the Tea Advisory Panel an astonishing 40 of the fluid drunk in the UK every day is tea.
Tea has been grown in the UK for hundreds of years. As a British company who loves a good cuppa we wondered how easy it would be to grow-your-own tea at home. As it turns out its perfectly possible to grow Camellia Sinensis the common tea plant in your own garden.
In fact it thrives in UK conditions. Can you really grow tea in the UK though. Growing tea in the UK may not be as crazy as you might think as its origins are in the chilly foothills of the Himalayas.
Today there are tea plantations in the Scottish highlands and on the rugged moorlands of Cornwall. Heres our guide on How to Grow Tea.