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ENTERTAINMENT CAMI L LA BAS S E T T - SMI TH


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THROUGH THE GARDEN GATE PRECI S E LY MY CUP OF T EA


There is nothing we Brits love more than a good cup of tea. Our TV horticulturalist, Camilla Bassett-Smith, meets up with a Cheltenham alumna, who is busy growing plants to produce our favourite teetotal tipple!


“You are precisely my cup of tea” sang I at Cheltenham’s Everyman Theatre in a performance of ‘The King & I’ and this drink is most definitely sovereign of the afternoon soiree! It is in fact the most widely consumed drink in the world, after water of course.


Tea leaves come from a well-known plant, the Camellia, but don’t go tearing apart Auntie Jane’s Camellia japonica, for the plant you need for this job is Camellia sinensis and lots of it! Enter former Cheltenham Ladies College pupil, Katherine Boucher, who alongside her husband and another couple, run


the Jersey Tea Company specialising in green and black whole leaf tea.


Started up in 2016, after experimenting with tea plants in their gardens, it was decided that Jersey has a pretty good climate for tea production which likes a warm humid climate with plenty of sunshine and rainfall. (In 2019, rainfall was 1062.7mm and tea requires approximately 1020mm). Katherine had been raised on the island, but schooled in Cheltenham and then raised a family in London, so returning to Jersey seemed like a natural step and a welcome change of pace after years in the medical profession.


The company has around 6000 multi-stemmed plants which they aim to keep at waist height to form a hedge and ‘picking plateau’. These are planted outdoors in fields of just under one


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