Before It Begins Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:00:01 -0400 en-au © 2026 Before It Begins yes 18afd875-8672-5ed1-b634-138263eb4fdb info@impalaandpeacock.com.au Impala & Peacock episodic false Five minutes with a cup of tea, every weekday morning. Pour the water, watch the colour arrive, and hear one true thing about what's in the cup — why lemon myrtle carries more lemon than a lemon does, why hibiscus isn't a flower, why no ginger plant has ever been found growing wild. Then one thought worth carrying into the day. A new blend each week, Monday to Friday. Made by Impala & Peacock Artisan Teas, blended by hand in Melbourne. Best taken with something steeping.

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Impala & Peacock info@impalaandpeacock.com.au https://storage.buzzsprout.com/1shxvglrznfnb3gs2eh63lvh79rj?.jpg Before It Begins Named in 1853, Known Far Longer Named in 1853, Known Far Longer One leaf in this cup is more concentrated than anything else in the blend — press a piece between your fingers before it goes in the pot and the smell is almost too much. It was given its botanical name in 1853. The food industry discovered it in the 1990s. People in southeast Queensland had been using it as food, as medicine and as smoke for tens of thousands of years before either. All three are true at once. It depends entirely on where you start counting.

Today's cup: Lemon Myrtle & Ginger — lemongrass, lemon myrtle, ginger, calendula petals. 1 tsp, 200mL, 100°C, four minutes. It takes a second infusion.

Before It Begins is made by Impala & Peacock Artisan Teas, blended by hand in Melbourne. This week's cup is waiting for you at https://www.impalaandpeacock.com.au/collections/best-sellers

A tea and musing every weekday morning.

]]> One leaf in this cup is more concentrated than anything else in the blend — press a piece between your fingers before it goes in the pot and the smell is almost too much. It was given its botanical name in 1853. The food industry discovered it in the 1990s. People in southeast Queensland had been using it as food, as medicine and as smoke for tens of thousands of years before either. All three are true at once. It depends entirely on where you start counting.

Today's cup: Lemon Myrtle & Ginger — lemongrass, lemon myrtle, ginger, calendula petals. 1 tsp, 200mL, 100°C, four minutes. It takes a second infusion.

Before It Begins is made by Impala & Peacock Artisan Teas, blended by hand in Melbourne. This week's cup is waiting for you at https://www.impalaandpeacock.com.au/collections/best-sellers

A tea and musing every weekday morning.

]]> Impala & Peacock Buzzsprout-19601857 Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +1000 260 lemon myrtle, Australian native botanicals, bush food, southeast Queensland, rainforest plants, herbal tea, lemon myrtle ginger, Impala & Peacock full false Two Plants That Never Met Two Plants That Never Met There is no lemon in this cup. No fruit at all. The brightness is citral — a compound that turns up independently in a grass from Southeast Asia and in the leaf of a rainforest tree on the east coast of Australia. Two plants that never met, arriving separately at the same answer. And a lemon that isn't the original, only the one that got there first in our language.

Today's cup: Lemon Myrtle & Ginger — lemongrass, lemon myrtle, ginger, calendula petals. 1 tsp, 200mL, 100°C, four minutes. It takes a second infusion.

Before It Begins is made by Impala & Peacock Artisan Teas, blended by hand in Melbourne. This week's cup is waiting for you at https://www.impalaandpeacock.com.au/collections/best-sellers

A tea and musing every weekday morning.

]]> There is no lemon in this cup. No fruit at all. The brightness is citral — a compound that turns up independently in a grass from Southeast Asia and in the leaf of a rainforest tree on the east coast of Australia. Two plants that never met, arriving separately at the same answer. And a lemon that isn't the original, only the one that got there first in our language.

Today's cup: Lemon Myrtle & Ginger — lemongrass, lemon myrtle, ginger, calendula petals. 1 tsp, 200mL, 100°C, four minutes. It takes a second infusion.

Before It Begins is made by Impala & Peacock Artisan Teas, blended by hand in Melbourne. This week's cup is waiting for you at https://www.impalaandpeacock.com.au/collections/best-sellers

A tea and musing every weekday morning.

]]> Impala & Peacock Buzzsprout-19596006 Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +1000 325 lemon myrtle, ginger, lemongrass, citral, herbal tea, convergent evolution, Australian native botanicals, lemon myrtle ginger, Impala & Peacock full false