Green Tea Plants - Grow One on Your Balcony !
All tea comes from the evergreen Camellia Sinensis tea bush Green tea plants are really shrubs and they grow in temperate climates and often at higher altitudes. If you live in more severe climate zones, you could grow your shrub in a green house or in a pot that you could bring indoors in winter. Most tea varieties tolerate temperatures down to 20 degrees F. They prefer a wet humid summer and a cool, dry winter with no soil freezes.
They are often cultivated as ornamentals.
Water frequently and add the occasional fertiliser. It will be about 3 years before you start harvesting the leaves for your own green tea, though! From your shrubs, you can make oolong, green and black tea, depending upon how you process the leaves.
To make green tea
If you would like to make black tea, you'll need to crush the leaves and bake them for a much longer period of time, and should you want to make oolong tea, the drying process is different again. Once you get the method of harvesting your green tea plants working well, try experimenting with different drying times to get different tastes. You can add jasmine or hibiscus flowers to your tea mix for a beautiful summer tea right from your garden! 
Access the amazing "The Tea Centre" website to browse online and find out about an exceptional range of fine teas. If you are in Australia, these can be ordered and in no time at all, you'll be sampling delicious and fragrant teas. "http://www.theteacentre.com.au"
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The camellia shrub is about 1-2m in height, although it will grow much taller if left unpruned. All camellias flower in autumn and produce beautiful blooms - some of which are highly prized. The camellia sinensis has small white blossoms that have a lovely scent.
