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Someone was asking here the other week about buying Citrus tree/bush/
plant. Was in Aldi this morning and they had some very good Lemon bushes for just £12 99, no variety but so good I treated myself to one, also a Loquat as well, absolutly covered in fruit. David Hill |
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"Dave Hill" wrote in message
... Someone was asking here the other week about buying Citrus tree/bush/ plant. Was in Aldi this morning and they had some very good Lemon bushes for just £12 99, no variety but so good I treated myself to one, also a Loquat as well, absolutly covered in fruit. David Hill I hope you aren't going to throw out the loquat seeds! They seem to germinate very well and make good garden plants, which are a lot hardier than many gardening books say. I suppose we'd need an exceptional summer and autumn to get any fruit, but IMHO the plant is worth growing for the foliage alone. -- Jeff |
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"Dave Hill" wrote in message ... Someone was asking here the other week about buying Citrus tree/bush/ plant. Was in Aldi this morning and they had some very good Lemon bushes for just £12 99, no variety but so good I treated myself to one, also a Loquat as well, absolutly covered in fruit. David Hill Thanks - may go and have a look. I quite fancy a second tree. I am in a 'Catch 22' with my current lemon tree. I brought it into the house at the beginning of the cold spell because it was showing signs of suffering. [I didn't have a cool outside place to store it] It has now perked up a little too much. After all the original new growth had turned black and crumbly and dropped off it started growing again. Because it is in a warm house it is growing quite strongly. If I don't water it the new shoots droop. If I do water it then it grows. I can't put it back outside because of the hard frosts - I think it may be another month or so before I can start hardening it off again. I just hope it doesn't take over the whole dining room. Who knows, though - it may flower :-) Cheers Dave R |
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"Jeff Layman" wrote in message
... "Dave Hill" wrote in message ... Someone was asking here the other week about buying Citrus tree/bush/ plant. Was in Aldi this morning and they had some very good Lemon bushes for just £12 99, no variety but so good I treated myself to one, also a Loquat as well, absolutly covered in fruit. David Hill I hope you aren't going to throw out the loquat seeds! They seem to germinate very well and make good garden plants, which are a lot hardier than many gardening books say. I suppose we'd need an exceptional summer and autumn to get any fruit, but IMHO the plant is worth growing for the foliage alone. -- Jeff We have a huge Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) in our garden grown from a seed my m-i-l germinated. It has produced fruit two or three times, but I doubt we'll have any this year because the winter weather has been too hard. I'll feed it well in the spring and hope for a good summer. Perhaps we'll have fruit again in 2011. Long time to wait, though. -- Spider from high ground in SE London, gardening on clay. |
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"Dave Hill" wrote in message ... Someone was asking here the other week about buying Citrus tree/bush/ plant. Was in Aldi this morning and they had some very good Lemon bushes for just £12 99, no variety but so good I treated myself to one, also a Loquat as well, absolutly covered in fruit. David Hill No loquats left, but I did get a nice lemon tree with a couple of quids worth of lemons on :-) Now I just have to make room for it inside until the weather improves. Cheers Dave R |
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