It’s that time of year when our hardy grapefruit and lemon trees begin bombing the house with loud thuds. Although they are missed by most visitors, we have two rather nice size plants of a Dunstan grapefruit and Ichang Lemon. Both hardy citrus aren’t exactly the sweetest fruit you’ve ever eaten, but, hey, they certainly
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The thuds on the roof of our nursery office isn’t the hooves of eight reindeer, but instead is that of the roof height citrus trees planted nearby, dropping their newly ripened fruit. Here are two Citrus ‘Ichang Lemon’ fruit that dropped into my pocket on a recent garden walk. Well aided by gravity, these dense,
We love December, since that’s when the grapefruits start to rain down from our xCitroncitrus ‘Dustan’ tree at JLBG. Few people who come to the garden actually look up enough to notice this fascinating plant. xCitroncitrus ‘Dunstan’ is a bigeneric hybrid between the hardy trifoliate orange, Poncirus trifoliata and a grapefruit. The result is a
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