Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
There’s one essential aspect of gardening that receives insufficient attention within traditional horticultural instruction. I refer, of course, to the following question: how do you have your tea? And, yes, tea; because there’s surely no debate among the sane and civilised over how one should drink one’s coffee (hot, strong, black, and while your eyelids are still in the process of remembering how to open, or else what’s the point in life?).
I’ve written before about the importance of tea to the relationship between gardener and garden owner. But the space in the day afforded by a good cuppa is no less valuable when both roles are performed by the same individual, offering as it does a break in proceedings during which the work in hand can be assessed, often from a fresh perspective, through a cloud of faintly fragrant steam. With which object we arrive (and not before time) at the point of today’s post: I’ve treated myself to a new mug, because the hi-tech plastic thermos effort simply isn’t cutting it. It might keep the tea warmer for longer, but where’s the point in hot tea when all the soul’s been sucked out? Fie on it, I say. When it comes to tea in the garden, I need the tap of fired earth against my teeth.
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Hello! I’m Andrew, gardener, blogger, podcaster, and owner of a too-loud laugh, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your way to Gardens, weeds & words. You can read a more in-depth profile of me on the About page, or by clicking the image above.
