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


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

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!

But being a grass you can mow them with a machete...

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Rusty