Twinings' expert blenders travel the world, through mountain villages and garden estates, to find teas with the consistent taste, aroma and uncompromising quality suitable to be called Twinings. Because a tea's flavour depends so highly on where and how it's grown, Twinings buys from tea growers who take great care to create and maintain the best possible growing conditions. Tea bushes are grown in dedicated "tea gardens," and are pruned every four to five years to keep them fresh and at the proper height for the "pluckers" to reach.