This summer, personal and tea-rrific tea bags can be made by visitors of Chiswick House Kitchen Garden.
The new, free ‘Make Time for Tea’ initiative encourages tea-enjoyers to discover a range of new and unusual blends from combining chamomile with peppermint to experimenting with the savoury scents of horsetail, making full use of the various plants that are grown within their gardens.
Having started on Friday July 5, the event then runs weekly from 10.30am to 3.30pm, and visitors will create a unique blend of plants within a sustainable paper tea bag that they will then be able to take home.
Head of Gardens Rosie Fyles has said: “By creating your own tea bag in our Tea Garden, […] you can go on to enjoy one of the freshest freshly-brewed cups of tea you’ll ever try.”
Chiswick House and Gardens is an 18th-century historic and nature-filled villa free for all to enter, where people can relax within their 65-acre grounds.
As a charity, the site is 75% visitor and supporter funded, and schemes such as ‘Make Time for Tea’ help to keep the gardens flourishing whilst also giving back to the community by providing knowledge on how to become more environmentally aware.
The initiative which arrived on July 5 aims to inform visitors on ways to ensure their own tea drinking is as eco-friendly as possible.
Fyles said: “You can also find out more about how we’re doing things differently in our kitchen garden: from organic, sustainable growing practices, to no-kill pest control, to a no dig policy that benefits the health of the soil and protects its natural structure.”
‘Make Time for Tea’ will take place in the Kitchen Gardens at Chiswick House, where many organic herbs are cared for by volunteers, and they hope to encourage participants to make their own tea bags that dip into their tea-centred creativi-tea.
Image credit: Chiswick House
