I’am very pleased to announce my Garden Lilac Hill is now available to view on YouTube! The channel will feature the garden from when we first started in 2018 through the years to current day. You can see all the plants I grow, the different garden beds that have been put in, the various areas for wildlife! I…
A Cold, West Coast Night
Winter has definitely settled over my garden Lilac Hill so it is a good time to stay inside and enjoy a very special tea. The tea I am having is Milk Oolong. Oolong teas are not as well known as mainstream teas, this tea has a creamy milk taste and aroma. Oolongs are grown mainly in Taiwan and…
Lapsang Souchong
Lapsang Souchong a tea worthy of worthy of celebrating! Lapsang Souchong is a black, full bodied tea with the taste and aroma of pine needles. The tea brews very dark and the steeped leaves are small, the word souchong means small leaf varietal. The taste is strong, medicinal similar to a cough syrup, not for everyone but I…
Visit to Lilac Hill
Hello and thanks for visiting my Heather’s Tea Garden blog. In addition to this blog I am starting a new blog to coincide with our new property Lilac Hill. http://gardenbloomsblog.wordpress.com I am going to take readers along the same path I travel in creating my new gardens. I also have a writers website to…
Blooms on Lilac Hill
This page will showcase the seasonal changes as the plants on Lilac Hill, Powell River, British Columbia, Canada, grow and the garden gets established. I hope you enjoy the pictures, feel free to pin any of them. I dug up over 100 plants from my previous garden! The only plants here when we moved in…
A Day at the Fair
Its been a while since my last entry, a lot has happened mainly we moved to Powell River BC on September 6th 2018. There is so much to see and do, the town is situated on BC’s far west coast and has expansive views of the ocean. We live in the area known as Cranberry…
Link to my Book
Hello and thank you for visiting my blog about gardening and tea. There are many connections between the plants we grow in our gardens and the teas we enjoy, below is the link to my new book, Heather’s Tea Garden: Tea and Flowers, I hope you enjoy the book with your favourite tea! http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1075939334
Tea can be Cooling too!
It has been hot here lately, especially for June, which in the past has been really rainy! So rather than worry about the lawn going brown and all the plant flopping that’s happening, (I will water the poor garden as soon as it cools a bit), I decided to try to make home-made iced tea from…
High Tea at Tracycakes Bakery and Cafe
Recently two friends and I had the pleasure of attending a high tea event at Tracycakes Bakery and Cafe in Abbotsford B.C. Canada. The event was hosted by Jolienne Moore who, with Lynn Cris, wrote a book titled ‘Etiquette for the Career Woman, all the Wisdom, Wit and Advice you will ever need to attain…
A Tea that is “True North Strong and Free”!
All a long I did not think tea grew naturally in Canada but we do have a traditional tea, its called Labrador Tea and it has been consumed by First Nations people for many generations! I had never heard of this herbal tisane before I attended a traditional tea and weaving demonstration at the new Sto:Lo gift shop here in…
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