Osulloc Green Tea Garden

After passing the signboards to Osulloc Green Tea Garden numerous times due to unpleasant weather or inconvenient transportation, we were in luck today with blue skies filled with fluffy white clouds here and there, and I was driving.  So we decided to visit the green tea plantations.  Osulloc makes all their green teas from the leaves harvested here.

Green tea fields from the parking lot to Osulloc's tea museum and shop

Osulloc emblem at the entrance of the shop

OSULLOC, Tea From Jeju Since 1979

The beauty of life offered by tea and Jeju Island, the most prominent national tea brand in Korea and also globally renowned, integrates all tea-related processes that encompass producing, harvesting and selling of tea. OSULLOC makes enormous efforts in harvesting the best green tea leaves through a technological farming method embodying the philosophy to incorporate modern technology to complement traditional tea-making thus upholding tradition while accepting new trends to create the best tea. [1]

Tazetta daffodils growing next to a pond

I noticed these white and yellow flowers along the path next to the pond just outside the museum.  I like the sharp contrast of the pristine white petals against the deep dark green of the stems and leaves.  "It is the corona that gives this plant the species epithet, tazetta, from the Italian word tazza, which is a shallow wine cup on a pedestal-like base. It is a member of the tazetta daffodils – those species and hybrid daffodil that have clustered, cup-shaped flowers, and flower during the winter months into early spring. N. tazetta is close relative to the most famous member of the group, Narcissus papyraceus, the common paper white." [2]

Reflections of the mirror-like pond water and glass windows.

Unexpected solitude and tranquillity in the crisp winter's afternoon   

This was somewhat unbelievable to think the museum and the tea shop was so full that one could barely move. This was quite an insightful outing learning in the history of the tea and getting to sample a few tea variants that were on promotion.  The museum's web page is excellent, and you can take a virtual tour of it by clicking here after you made yourself a cup of tea. Sip-Sip.