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June 10, 2010 | 
Author The Whidbey Island youth choral group, Bella Coro, has chosen and executed a theme for Tea & Treasure’s tea garden: Rhapsody in Blue.
The girls and one boy worked in the rain weeding the garden and then on a sunny day they returned and planted flowers and herbs, put wood chips down, and hung and placed the blue accents. The sculpture, by a high school girl who is a member of the choral group, is of a bar of music.
Voting for best sculpture garden in Coupeville is taking place now, and the winner will be announced on the steps of the museum on June 26th.
If my Rhapsody in Blue Tea Garden wins, the youths will receive $500 to help sponsor their future choral activities. Regardless of whether they win or not, Bella Coro will perform on the steps of the museum on the 26th and, hopefully, also in the garden.
Roland Petrov
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On sunny days, Tea and Treasure‘s tea garden is now open. It’s a hidden gem, tucked out of sight behind the tea store. It has a pond fed by a man-made stream that gurgles over and around rocks. The pond is home to five growing gold fish.
Spring is in full swing in the garden; lemon verbena is thriving, oregano and chamomile are growing in pots, the laveder is blooming, and the bluebells behind the tree are already starting to say goodbye.
So what makes this little garden a tea garden?
There are tables and chairs out there, and anyone can come into the store, make themselves a cup of interesting tea, and then enjoy it in the garden while appreciating nature.
Tea gardens originated in China, but like almost everything else were perfected in Japan.
The tea garden here at Tea & Treasure is something of a combination between the Japanese and British styles. (Not everyone knows that there is a bona fide Japanese tea garden at the Aboretum in Seattle. The Japanese tea ceremony is performed there.)
There is great news for our little tea garden in the form of an island girls’ choral group whose project is to turn the garden into something truly special. This will include the addition of many more plants, including some that one can make tea out of (well, infusions). And there’ll be a plant growing in a teapot, wind chimes, and a sculpture.
Many gardens in Coupeville are being turned into Sculpture Gardens for the summer, so if you’re going to be in the area this June and July, be sure to stop and ask about it.
Roland Petrov