(Formerly 'Lipton Plantation') This selection from Donnie Barrett of Fairhope Tea Plantation has small, medium green leaves with pronounced serration.  Vigorous growth produces lots of shoots for harvest!  Prolific flowers and seed set, and quite cold hardy. Lipton Tea Company started a tea research project at Fairhope but after 4 years the plants were bulldozed… Continue reading Fairhope Select

Selected from some very special plants in our Tea Gardens, this cultivar displays significantly larger leaves and more vigorous growth than the original 'Sochi' plants while displaying the same color and similar cold hardiness. This clone can have leaves up to 8 inches long when growing very vigorously. The original plant probably has 25 stems… Continue reading Super Sochi

This new, exceptionally vigorous cultivar was selected from a batch of seeds collected in the Gangwon-do province of South Korea near the DMZ.  Without question - this has become one of our absolute favorite tea plants! These come from a tea plantation where they grow under trees to provide some protection from cold as this… Continue reading Gangwon-do

The Yabukita cultivar is mainly responsible for producing Sencha, which is the most-grown green tea in Japan. When cultivating Sencha, it can only be harvested for a short time around spring, and shortly after, picking leaves are sent to processing. If leaves are harvested late, the tea quality will be lost. Leaves are steamed to… Continue reading Yabukita Sencha