Rainy winter leads to record crop at UK's only tea estate
Rainy weather across parts of Britain turned out to benefit the Tregothnan Estate, UK's only tea plantation located on the Atlantic coast in Cornwall, which expects record output this year. The floods, gales and driving rain that wreaked havoc across the UK this winter have actually generated ideal tea growing conditions with plenty of humidity, according to the garden director. Tregothnan harvested over 10 tons of tea last year from around 16,000 tea bushes and expects to easily outdo the quantity this year. The plantation produces 26 different varieties, some of which are exported to Asia.