There's an advert in the Radio Times for "perfect orange and lemon
trees that will thrive and grow like crazy in your garden here in UK".
It says they will survive "severe frosts down to -5 C or you pay
nothing."
They call them "Navelina Orange" and "Eureka lemon".
The company is GardenBargains.com

Not having a greenhouse or conservatory I've never had a lemon tree.
Any opinions? Any advice? Has anyone grown these? I'm quite tempted,
but it seems too good to be true.
I see other firms are selling Eureka lemon. Dobies want nearly £50.
This firm ask £29.99.

Pam in Bristol

In article ,
Pam Moore wrote:
There's an advert in the Radio Times for "perfect orange and lemon
trees that will thrive and grow like crazy in your garden here in UK".
It says they will survive "severe frosts down to -5 C or you pay
nothing."

-5 Celsius is a severe frost? Oh, get real!

Not having a greenhouse or conservatory I've never had a lemon tree.
Any opinions? Any advice? Has anyone grown these? I'm quite tempted,
but it seems too good to be true.

Don't bother, unless you are in a very warm part of the country.
They are reasonably tough, but critically need winter protection
almost everywhere in the UK. It's the combination of cold and wet
that kills them.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Pam Moore" wrote
There's an advert in the Radio Times for "perfect orange and lemon
trees that will thrive and grow like crazy in your garden here in UK".
It says they will survive "severe frosts down to -5 C or you pay
nothing."
They call them "Navelina Orange" and "Eureka lemon".
The company is GardenBargains.com

Not having a greenhouse or conservatory I've never had a lemon tree.
Any opinions? Any advice? Has anyone grown these? I'm quite tempted,
but it seems too good to be true.
I see other firms are selling Eureka lemon. Dobies want nearly £50.
This firm ask £29.99.

We grow a number of citrus trees but they all spend the winter frost free in
our unheated garage that is attached to our house and has a twin walled
clear plastic roof and our heated greenhouse on the end.
They are now outside against the S. facing wall enjoying today's sun after
yesterdays rain. If a frost is forecast then I will drag them back into the
garage for the night.
A neighbour left his large lemon tree out last winter 2008/9 against their
S. facing wall and it suffered terribly from frost/wind damage and has still
not fully recovered.
Do I believe what they say in their adverts? In a word, No.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

Pam Moore wrote:
There's an advert in the Radio Times for "perfect orange and lemon
trees that will thrive and grow like crazy in your garden here in UK".
It says they will survive "severe frosts down to -5 C or you pay
nothing."
They call them "Navelina Orange" and "Eureka lemon".
The company is GardenBargains.com

Not having a greenhouse or conservatory I've never had a lemon tree.
Any opinions? Any advice? Has anyone grown these? I'm quite tempted,
but it seems too good to be true.
I see other firms are selling Eureka lemon. Dobies want nearly £50.
This firm ask £29.99.

Only one of my lemons looks a bit unhappy - the leadline sort-of too up
smoking and the temperature in the greenhouse went under -4°C for a
couple of days and nights.

A friend who was brought up in a mountainous region of Sith Effrica had
a lemon tree outside his door. It was snowed on each winter, lost all
its leaves, but never failed to provide a crop.

So, I'd go fo it - if you can't find a cheaper source.

--
Rusty

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In article ,
Pam Moore wrote:
There's an advert in the Radio Times for "perfect orange and lemon
trees that will thrive and grow like crazy in your garden here in UK".
It says they will survive "severe frosts down to -5 C or you pay
nothing."

-5 Celsius is a severe frost? Oh, get real!

It makes water quite hard...

I've friend in the Highlands: now they *HAVE* had a severe frost or
three innit ye ken.

Not having a greenhouse or conservatory I've never had a lemon tree.
Any opinions? Any advice? Has anyone grown these? I'm quite tempted,
but it seems too good to be true.

Don't bother, unless you are in a very warm part of the country.
They are reasonably tough, but critically need winter protection
almost everywhere in the UK. It's the combination of cold and wet
that kills them.

A sort-of sentry-box made from Twinwall polycarbonate should sort that.

--
Rusty

But the light intensity and temperatures in the warmer months in SA would provide an opportunity for fast growth, ripening and recovery that it wouldn't receive in Britain.

There is an orange tree or something similar growing outside in a tub just off Soho square in central London, I go past it every day. I think it was only put there fairly recently. It hasn't got any leaves just now. Let's see how it recovers.

mark wrote:
I struggle to maintain a lemon tree that retains leaves and produces much
fruit (for much of the year) outside the summer.. in the South of France...
Growth is neglible but leaf growth is very poor....however, I am at 1800
feet asl and that probably has as much to do with it than the overall
climate issue..
I struggle also with a Phoenix palm that are abundant at a less than a few
hundred feet asl...

All of my citrus suffer terribly from scaly bug things. Yucky things. Then
they go all sticky and end up with black mildew. (and sticky windows when
they are brought in for the winter)

Any advice for keeping them off welcome.

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mark wrote:
I struggle to maintain a lemon tree that retains leaves and produces much
fruit (for much of the year) outside the summer.. in the South of France...
Growth is neglible but leaf growth is very poor....however, I am at 1800
feet asl and that probably has as much to do with it than the overall
climate issue..
I struggle also with a Phoenix palm that are abundant at a less than a few
hundred feet asl...

All of my citrus suffer terribly from scaly bug things. Yucky things. Then
they go all sticky and end up with black mildew. (and sticky windows when
they are brought in for the winter)

Any advice for keeping them off welcome.

Non-EU answer - regular small applications of aerosol flykiller.

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Rusty

Rusty Hinge wrote:
All of my citrus suffer terribly from scaly bug things. Yucky things. Then
they go all sticky and end up with black mildew. (and sticky windows when
they are brought in for the winter)

Any advice for keeping them off welcome.

Non-EU answer - regular small applications of aerosol flykiller.

An interesting idea. I may well give it a go. With or without a match?
:-)

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Rusty Hinge wrote:

All of my citrus suffer terribly from scaly bug things. Yucky things. Then
they go all sticky and end up with black mildew. (and sticky windows when
they are brought in for the winter)

Any advice for keeping them off welcome.
Non-EU answer - regular small applications of aerosol flykiller.

An interesting idea. I may well give it a go. With or without a match?
:-)

Depends rather on whether you mean pollinator or incinerator...

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Rusty