Tea

Half way up a hill in the foothills of Galloway is a hodge podge of a garden.

If we go on the saunter, down the stairs, along the paths, between the ponds and down the stream side, we may come at some time to the tunnels. Not all together these growing tunnels, but cast about. At one time they were the home of Winter veg, Summer salads, Early soft fruit and Stone Fruits. Not all is as it was, not all is different. If you peep round doors some of the old friends are still to be seen. Apricots, Plums and Peaches cast over their bedfellows. Soft fruit shows its advantage in and among. Salads are still to be harvested in their usual beds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

What now casts it’s green like a carpet under the blossom and fruit of earlier planting.

Tea, or to give it its Proper Name, Camelia Sinensis or in some cases, Camelia Assamica.