Sacha wrote:
On 20/6/07 07:27, in article ,
"Charlie" Charlie wrote:
sounds
of pruning
Nice Ramble, nice style, thoroughly enjoyable read.

Thanks, Maddie

Care and luck with the eyes
Charlie

I agree. I love Maddie's rambles and feel as if I'm in her garden with her,
while I'm reading them.


do you need a refill on the sweet iced tea, Sacha?? gbseg it's been
a long time, lady.........good to be back-
maddie

On 20/6/07 13:19, in article ,
"madgardener" wrote:

Sacha wrote:
On 20/6/07 07:27, in article ,
"Charlie" Charlie wrote:
sounds
of pruning
Nice Ramble, nice style, thoroughly enjoyable read.

Thanks, Maddie

Care and luck with the eyes
Charlie

I agree. I love Maddie's rambles and feel as if I'm in her garden with her,
while I'm reading them.


do you need a refill on the sweet iced tea, Sacha?? gbseg it's been
a long time, lady.........good to be back-
maddie

Do you know, I've never had iced tea! How do you make it? Not too OT, I
hope as many of us grow Camellias. ;-))

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
(remove weeds from address)

Sacha wrote:

I agree. I love Maddie's rambles and feel as if I'm in her garden with her,
while I'm reading them.

do you need a refill on the sweet iced tea, Sacha?? gbseg it's been
a long time, lady.........good to be back-
maddie

Do you know, I've never had iced tea! How do you make it? Not too OT, I
hope as many of us grow Camellias. ;-))


REALLY??? Well let me give you a short and sweet bit. You gotta make
at least a half gallon of tea. (64 ounces) with about an ounce of black
and orange peko tea in a bag. (I've done this with raspberry tea as
well)as opposed to 80 ounces.......the tea bags that we get in the US
are made specifically for iced tea, so you might need to double up. I
tend to make it very strong anyway. You can't read through my iced tea!
LOL Soooooo, boil the kettle and get it rolling. I pour my boiled
water into a glass pickle jar that can take the heat to brew and steep.
I make my sweet iced tea by the gallon, so I boil just over
three British pints and pour it into the glass jar, then put the tea
bags into it. I have restaurant sized bags that have about an ounce of
tea in it. When I don't have the restaurant sized bags (which are a
luxury for me) I use "Family" sized bags, which equates to two or three
regular sized tea bags I suppose..... I discovered that they explode
when the boiling water is poured over them. Sooooo, I steep the bags
until there's not a drip of tea left, then squeeze the bag out and toss
into my compost can on the counter. I let it steep until it's cold.
Then for a gallon of tea, I put one cup of sugar to sweeten it. Not too
sweet, just right. I tend to top off the gallon after I dissolve the
sugar with cold water and pour over ice and a large wedge of lemon when
I have it.....and there you go! (how are your Camelia's anyway? What
color are they?? LOL
maddie

On 20/6/07 17:22, in article , "madgardener"
wrote:

Sacha wrote:

I agree. I love Maddie's rambles and feel as if I'm in her garden with
her,
while I'm reading them.

do you need a refill on the sweet iced tea, Sacha?? gbseg it's been
a long time, lady.........good to be back-
maddie

Do you know, I've never had iced tea! How do you make it? Not too OT, I
hope as many of us grow Camellias. ;-))


REALLY??? Well let me give you a short and sweet bit. You gotta make
at least a half gallon of tea. (64 ounces) with about an ounce of black
and orange peko tea in a bag. (I've done this with raspberry tea as
well)as opposed to 80 ounces.......the tea bags that we get in the US
are made specifically for iced tea, so you might need to double up.
snip

Thanks for this, Maddie. Next time (IF) we get a spell of hot weather, I'm
going to try that. I've tried iced coffee for the nursery staff when it's
been very hot but it's not a favourite! OTOH, they all love their afternoon
tea, so we'll try this and see how it goes down.
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
(remove weeds from address)

In message , Sacha
writes
REALLY??? Well let me give you a short and sweet bit. You gotta make
at least a half gallon of tea. (64 ounces) with about an ounce of black
and orange peko tea in a bag. (I've done this with raspberry tea as
well)as opposed to 80 ounces.......the tea bags that we get in the US
are made specifically for iced tea, so you might need to double up.
snip

Thanks for this, Maddie. Next time (IF) we get a spell of hot weather,
I'm going to try that. I've tried iced coffee for the nursery staff
when it's been very hot but it's not a favourite! OTOH, they all love
their afternoon tea, so we'll try this and see how it goes down.

Somehow I doubt it, Sacha: iced coffee is still basically coffee; iced
lemon tea is nothing like a standard afternoon cuppa*. Lovely, though.
Have you tried them on Camp with water, ice, and milk? Our girls used to
love that, and I often make it when it's hot and I don't want to take
the time to make coffee....

(*note to Maddie: cuppa is English slang for a cup of tea, always with
milk....)


--
Klara, Gatwick basin

On 21/6/07 10:10, in article , "Klara"
wrote:

In message , Sacha
writes
REALLY??? Well let me give you a short and sweet bit. You gotta make
at least a half gallon of tea. (64 ounces) with about an ounce of black
and orange peko tea in a bag. (I've done this with raspberry tea as
well)as opposed to 80 ounces.......the tea bags that we get in the US
are made specifically for iced tea, so you might need to double up.
snip

Thanks for this, Maddie. Next time (IF) we get a spell of hot weather,
I'm going to try that. I've tried iced coffee for the nursery staff
when it's been very hot but it's not a favourite! OTOH, they all love
their afternoon tea, so we'll try this and see how it goes down.

Somehow I doubt it, Sacha: iced coffee is still basically coffee; iced
lemon tea is nothing like a standard afternoon cuppa*. Lovely, though.
Have you tried them on Camp with water, ice, and milk? Our girls used to
love that, and I often make it when it's hot and I don't want to take
the time to make coffee....

No, haven't used Camp coffee for years myself, though it's one of the
ingredients of coffee cake in the tea room! Good idea.

(*note to Maddie: cuppa is English slang for a cup of tea, always with
milk....)


Unless it's Earl Grey, in which case it's dishwater with a slice of lemon.
;-) I don't suppose that really constitutes a cuppa, though!
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
(remove weeds from address)

Klara wrote:
In message , Sacha
writes
REALLY??? Well let me give you a short and sweet bit.
snip

Thanks for this, Maddie.

Somehow I doubt it, Sacha: iced coffee is still basically coffee; iced
lemon tea is nothing like a standard afternoon cuppa*. Lovely, though.
Have you tried them on Camp with water, ice, and milk? Our girls used to
love that, and I often make it when it's hot and I don't want to take
the time to make coffee....

(*note to Maddie: cuppa is English slang for a cup of tea, always with
milk....)

ahhhhh, so that is what me Englishman means when he speaks of a
cuppa..........and for you ladies across the pond, I've been taking my
morning glass mugs of hot, strong (two tea bags of Lipton, funds aren't
available to afford anything better, sadly)tea with a spoon of ground
turbanado sugar (raw sugar I put in the coffee grinder to make last
longer and dissolve quicker) and a slash of half and half. My glass mug
isn't quite an English pint (18 ounces as opposed to 20) but it starts
me day off well. I've taken up this habit since someone dear to me
suggested I try it when I was feeling a bit clogged and poorly. It
worked! But now, since I DO live in Eastern Tennessee where the
waitresses accents are thicker'n cold treakle on a February morning,
they look at me funny when I ask for a cup of hot tea AND sweet iced tea
with extra lemon...........hey, I never claimed to be quite normal!LOL
By the way, on a gardening note............my monarda in the front bed
comes in two colors this year, and once again I'm reminded why I love
and smile at them so. Silly looking little tough things. Ooops, the
kettle is singing, time for my morning cuppa! (seriously!) and a hot
toasted slice of raisin bread with a smear of cream cheese and a handful
of red seedless grapes to round it off.....then outside and tuck in some
more daylilies into pots since I can't decide where to put the treasures
I got a couple of weeks ago at Dancing Winds....thanks ladies for
chatting with me. If you could get to the binaries newsgroup you could
see the faces of the hemerocalis I got. They are awesome. Gonna cut
the foliage back and the stems too, and plant them into pots and have
them regenerate the rest of the summer. Just a little horticultural
notation there, ya know...........gbseg later ladies!
madgardener up on the ridge, back in Faerie Holler, overlooking English
MOuntian in EAstern TEnnessee, zone 7, Sunset growing zone 36 where it's
HAZY.............and SOLSTICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gbseg later ladies!
madgardener up on the ridge, back in Faerie Holler, overlooking English
MOuntian in EAstern TEnnessee, zone 7, Sunset growing zone 36 where
it's HAZY.............and SOLSTICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thinking about you, Maddie: hope all goes well tomorrow!


--
Klara, Gatwick basin