Growing green tea plants

Growing your own tea plant doesn’t have to be daunting. Get tips for how to make your first foray into planting Camellia sinensis a success with suggested resources for sourcing saplings.

What is the most popular drink in the world? Tea! Best of all, it comes from Tea Plants, which can be easily grown at home indoors or out.

Growing naturally to a compact size, Meyer lemon trees (Citrus × meyeri) don't need regular pruning. These decorative evergreen trees grow 6 to 10 feet tall and 4 to 8 feet wide, and they can be grown in containers. Late frosts sometimes damage Meyer lemons, though the trees are hardy in U.S.

When outsiders try to learn about tea, they're usually stymied by the industry's mindboggling complexity, and a marketplace rife with misinformation and counterfeit product doesn't do much to help. That's why I've made the journey to one of China's tea capitals: to learn how and why this little leaf from a plain-looking shrub drives a whole economy wild.

Tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia), is a small tree with leathery, lance-shaped leaves and white blooms in spring and summer. Read on for more.

Tea Plant (Camellia sinensis) flowers in autumn in Australia. As the most popular beverage plant in Asia, there are numerous tea plant cultivars across the continent, from China to Sri Lanka, from Turkey to Japan. This one is Japanese. #teaplant #camellia #cha #茶树 #Teaceae

For a $2 investment, here's a plant that is hardy, tasty, and had a myriad of uses! Chocolate Mint is a great addition to your garden!

Take a deeper dive into the tea plant: camelia sinensis

By Bethany Hayes Never heard of jiaogulan? Sometimes referred to as the immortality herb, it’s often used to create tea, and you can learn how to grow jiaogulan at home if you love drinking the tea. Jiaogulan has a long history as an herbal plant used to promote a disease-free, long, healthy life. It originates […]