03
May
May
Withering leaves aren’t just reserved for outside! The beautiful loose leaves in our autumnal teas also deserve the spotlight this May.
Tag Archives: Darjeeling
05
Aug
Aug
T.S. Eliot was the first to say that April is the cruellest month and The Tea Centre agrees. It’s the only time during the flush seasons that you can’t harvest Darjeeling!
In 1778 Sir Joseph Banks suggested that Northern India may be a suitable place for the British to grow tea plants, Camellia sinensis. It took many years and various attempts to convince the Botanical Gardens of Calcutta (today known as Kolkata) that tea could and was already growing in North Eastern India. In fact, Christmas […]