Your Questions About Gardening

GardenersCardiff answers:

Yes, Diggers Seeds have an online catalogue and can be ordered. They are a bit hard to grow from seeds. Can sometimes buy the plants fairly cheaply. It’s a species of camellia.
Our local nursery sells them.
They are sometimes available from ebay

Follow the link below, they have them for $2.85 a pack
http://www.organicsaustraliaonline.com.au/prod864.htm

Hope this helps

GardenersCardiff answers:

This would as difficult and tedious as trying to make your own wine by growing your own grapes. You can try it, but the results will likely be mediocre unless you invest a lot of time money and effort into it. On a personal scale, I don’t think it would be worth it.

It’s not easy, but if you have the money to order them $$$, then order several tea plants. It would be great if you have a big enough yard to plant at least a dozen tea shrubs. You will need the patience and knowledge on how to grow them, easily searchable online I guess. They will take a few years to get to a reasonable size. This process can take years, I am telling you. Its not instant gratification. You would also need to research on how to properly prepare the tea leaf buds for drying.

GardenersCardiff answers:

You have to get the tea tree from New Zealand. The best bet is to contact a Maori Iwi. Iwi translates from Maori to English as I Wont It. Tea tree grows very well in America. It probaly grows better than Pohutikawa does in San Fransico.