The UsualPopularChai
Long afternoons, milk — cardamom, clove, round.
Ingredients
Kenilworth Black tea (Ceylon), cinnamon bark, green cardamom, ginger root, cloves, black pepper
£12.00 · 50g · approx 40 cups
THE TEA SHELF YOU WISHED FOR
Whole loose teas & botanical blends
A collection of ingredients you'd spend a fortune assembling alone, blended by hand into characterful pots. No artificial flavourings, no fillers, just flavours to explore.
PopularThe everyday shelf
The Usual, your daily pours.
The cups that keep getting reached for — classic loose leaf teas in 50g pouches, hand-blended and ready to pour.
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The UsualPopularJasmine Green
Bright mornings, everyday — green, jasmine.
Ingredients
Yunnan green tea, jasmine flowers
£12.00 · 50g · approx 40 cups
The UsualPopularPeppermint
After-dinner — cool, clear, long.
Ingredients
Peppermint leaves
£1.00 · 50g · approx 40 cups
The UsualPopularRussian Caravan
Daily cup with woodsmoke — malty Ceylon, lapsang.
Ingredients
Kenilworth Black Ceylon, Smoky Lapsang Souchong
£12.00 · 50g · approx 40 cups
NewA new range
Elevenses, a brew for the cake plate.
Four little loose-leaf pours, each one matched to something jammy, chocolatey, lemony or marzipan. 25g pouches, caffeine free, made to sit beside the tin.
ElevensesNewJam Tart
For sponge and jam — tart hibiscus, rosehip.
Ingredients
Hibiscus flowers, rosehip
£9.00 · 25g · approx 20 cups
ElevensesNewHumbug
For a chocolate biscuit — mint, liquorice.
Ingredients
Peppermint leaves, liquorice root
£9.00 · 25g · approx 20 cups
ElevensesNewDrizzle
Cuts through the cake — ginger, lemon verbena.
Ingredients
Lemon verbena, ginger root
£9.00 · 25g · approx 20 cups
ElevensesNewBattenberg
Almond and marzipan — cardamom, rose.
Ingredients
Rose petals, cardamom
£9.00 · 25g · approx 20 cups
For the bench
Tea brewing apparel.
The small tools that make loose leaf easier — strainers, filters and brewing kit. Built for the kettle and the iced brew jug alike.
Brew Bags, Cotton Muslin
Disposable drawstring tea filters for loose leaf brewing
£3.00 · 20 bags
Metal Tea Strainer
A reusable stainless steel tea strainer with fine mesh
£7.99 · Reusable, dishwasher safe
Disposable Tea Strainers Bags
Natural wood pulp filter paper
£2.50 · 40 bags
SummerIced brews
Refreshing pours for the summer heat.
Four fruity and floral blends that shine cold. Jam Tart, sharp and ruby. Drizzle, bright and gingery. Jasmine Green, smooth and fragrant. Peppermint, clean and cold.
1 bag · 1L cold water · 8–12 hours in the fridge · a twist of lemon or lime, sugar to taste.
ElevensesNewJam Tart
For sponge and jam — tart hibiscus, rosehip.
Ingredients
Hibiscus flowers, rosehip
£9.00 · 25g · approx 20 cups
ElevensesNewDrizzle
Cuts through the cake — ginger, lemon verbena.
Ingredients
Lemon verbena, ginger root
£9.00 · 25g · approx 20 cups
The UsualPopularJasmine Green
Bright mornings, everyday — green, jasmine.
Ingredients
Yunnan green tea, jasmine flowers
£12.00 · 50g · approx 40 cups
The UsualPopularPeppermint
After-dinner — cool, clear, long.
Ingredients
Peppermint leaves
£1.00 · 50g · approx 40 cups
Out the gardenSummer reels
Iced brews, in the heat of the day.
Snippets from gardens, picnic blankets and back doorsteps — a long pour over ice, a jug on the table, a sunny afternoon stretched out.
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Long pour
Cold brew, garden light
Jam Tart
with hibiscus & rosehip
Hibiscus flowersRosehip
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Heatwave
A jug, three glasses, no rush
Drizzle
with lemon verbena & ginger root
Lemon verbenaGinger root
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Deckchair hours
Ice, lemon, a slow Sunday
Jasmine Green
with jasmine flowers & yunnan green tea
Yunnan green teaJasmine flowers
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Out the back
Splash, clink, summer pour
Peppermint
with peppermint leaves
Peppermint leaves
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Blend your own at home
Each box holds two whole leaf teas and up to nine wild botanicals — gathered from growers the world over, every ingredient in its own bag.
Cold SeasonThe Hedgerow Blend Box
For the days the weather gets in.
Ingredients
Yunnan green tea, Moonlight white tea, Echinacea, Elderflower, Juniper berry, Lemon peel, Meadowsweet, Mullein herb, Nettle leaf, Thyme
£25.00 · 100g · approx 80 cups
Fireside DigestifOld Earth Blend Box
Build the fireside cup — smoke, spice, roots.
Ingredients
Smoky Lapsang souchong, Ginger root, Cinnamon, Clove, Black pepper, Liquorice root, Peppermint, Beetroot, Spanish needle
£25.00 · 100g · approx 80 cups
Twilight DriftAfter Dark Blend Box
Body earned it — rooibos, lavender, jasmine.
Ingredients
Long cut rooibos, Whole bud chamomile, Valerian root, Lemon balm, Passionflower, Jasmine flowers, Rose petals, Lemon verbena, Lavender, Orange peel, Honey crystals
£25.00 · 110g · approx 85 cups
Shop by intention
Find your moment.
Four ranges, four moods. Pick the one that fits the week ahead.
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Functional
Botanicals chosen for what they do, not just how they taste.
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Dry Season Tea & Botanical Mocktails
Bright, layered brews built for the booze-free pour.
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Featured · No Rush
Good Intentions
Quiet rituals for the version of you you're working towards.
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Featured · Courage
Quiet Rebellion
Bold, unruly blends for the ones who don't follow the recipe.
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A gift, posted
The thoughtful gift for curious drinkers.
A Blend Club box makes a memorable present for Father's Day, birthdays, thank yous — any occasion when you're after something a little more considered. Two whole leaf teas, eight botanicals and a recipe card, posted through the letterbox in a giftable kraft box.
Send a single box, or set up a 3 or 6 month run for a gift that keeps arriving.
Letterbox friendly · Free UK shipping over £40 · 1, 3 or 6 boxes
What goes in the box
Whole leaf teas and 50 botanicals — chosen for flavour and properties, grouped into themes you can blend your way.
From the bench
The blending, in motion.
Weighed by hand. Measured by eye. The practice as it happens.
The practice
Brew with intent.
A kettle. A pinch of something dried. A few minutes held aside. We curate the leaves and botanicals — what you brew with them is yours.
Ritual
The kettle, kept.
A cup is a pause you give yourself. Boil. Measure. Steep. The ritual asks little and returns more than it asks.
Folk lore
Names that mean something.
Before the supermarket aisle there was the cottage door. Blends carried the names of what they were for — a beginning, an ending, an hour of the day.
Botanicals
Curated, not concocted.
Whole leaf teas and whole botanicals, sourced for origin and flavour. No flavourings, no fillers. The blending is left to you.
The blender's bench
An old practice, kept on.
Blending tea at home was once a domestic art — a kitchen practice held quietly through generations. We've put it back within reach.
We curate the whole leaf teas and botanicals around themes like bedtime, fireside and slow morning. You brew the whole box as one blend, or experiment with combinations of your own.
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In person
Find us at a market near you.
We take the cabinet on the road. Brass scales, dark wicker baskets brimming with loose leaf, small glass jars of botanicals lined up like an old apothecary — and the kettle always on.
Come and lift a lid, sniff the jars, and have a blend weighed out by hand. The full shelf, under canvas, at craft markets across the country.
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