2015/05/06

Tea in Balcony

It is the tea-picking season around my area, but not at my balcony yet. 

I got some seedlings of tea tree, Camellia sinensis last May from a tea farm in Kyoto, and they've been at my balcony since then. Yes, I got “some”, but this is the only branch that I have now. Sorry, others are dead….

Will “the tea-picking season” come to my balcony someday?? Well…..we’ll see….:-)


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