Looking for a gift for my Husband

 


Hi,

I am looking to buy my husband a plant for Valentines Day - I wanted
something
like a lemon or orange tree, can someome tell me firstly if
they actually can be
grown here and if anyone knows where I might be
able to buy one - I haven't seen
them in my local garden centre.

Many thanks
Sarah




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S WHITE

 


We have lime, kumquat and calamodium (sp?) orange trees, all have fruited,
but they need to be kept indoors most of the year.  We killed the kumquat
off last year.  :-(  They're quite difficult to get to fruiting, ime, but
it's quite a nice feeling when they work!  I think we've found Tahiti lime
the easiest.

You can get them in garden centres, but they may be seasonal.  We've
definitely bought them from various garden centres though.  Alternately,
there's a website called citruscentre, iirc that have a huge selection.
Throw it into google and see what you find.

 

On 2010-02-04 10:36:51 +0000, S WHITE


Yes, several nurseries stock them and some specialise in them if you do
some Google searching.  Meyer's lemon is possibly the best known and
has a pink flesh which is a little bit sweeter than the 'ordinary'
lemon.  There are quite a few citrus trees that can be grown in
conservatories or greenhouses in UK but the important thing is not to
over-water them and to let them drain well between waterings.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics.
South Devon

 



"S WHITE"  wrote >

We have two Lemons, a Tahiti Lime, a Padua Lime, a Grapefruit and an Orange.
All fruit well**.
They spend the winter in our unheated but frost free garage which has a twin
walled clear plastic roof and the rest of the year outside against a S.
facing wall. They are taken in when the frost is forecast, October/November
usually and brought out again once most of the frost has gone, usually
March. Occasionally I have to put them back under cover for a few days if
frost is forecast again.
**The best ones for fruit are the Lemon and the Tahiti Lime, the latter
being a bit smaller growing and produce the Limes sold in shops.
Most GCs usually stock some citrus although they can look a bit sick IME,
the RHS Wisley shop has some most of the time and there are also specialists
like The Citrus Centre  ...

http://www.citruscentre.co.uk/

Don't get carried away though, learn on a cheaper one first, a decent sized
one can be expensive.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK





 

 

On 2010-02-04 10:36:51 +0000, S WHITE


Just a thought with this, if you're not fixed on a citrus tree, think
about Ensete ventricosum maurellii, if you have a conservatory.   It's
a cousin - for want of a better description - of the banana and has
much more interesting foliage, IMO.  Ours go out for the summer and
come back in for the winter but as they get quite bulky you can't move
them about forever!
--
Sacha