Flowering Tea bulbs - ChoiTime Tea

The second of my exciting free samples from ChoiTime Tea was one of their flowering tea bulbs. Now these look so pretty that it's easy to forget that the appearance really should be secondary.  Even so, they are, they're very pretty so it would be foolish to ignore that fact.

The pretty little bulb that I unwrapped really was crying out for a pretty vessel to sit in. I decided on a bone china teacup and saucer that I think is very delicate and with a sense of fun. I felt this would complement the spirit of the tea beautifully.

As with all their teas, these are authentic traditional teas and we'll have none of your tea bag malarky here.

It's a lovely and tightly wound ball with a pretty little flowery centre.

When I added the hot water the ball began to unravel, much as you might expect, but rather slowly. However, there's quite a lot of green tea here, so you can get quite a lot of cups.

The tea we're looking at here is the Thousand Year Red and it comes with a hole raft of promised health benefits. In addition the red flower symbolises 'luck, happiness and prosperity'. Well I won't say no to some of that.

The tea itself is Jasmine Green Tea again, and the quality is pronounced. This is a joy to drink and savour. I topped up the water time and time again, and it still tasted good. I even left it stewing while I got distracted by some filing, and after a quick after refresh it was fine again.

The only possible issue was when I accidentally swallowed some of the flower. Not because there's anything wrong with that, but because I'm so used to floating bits in my drink being flies! So lighten up people and drink tea like it's supposed to be drunk.

If you fancy some of this tea ChoiTime will give you 10% discount with the code TillyTakesTea10