Mossy Cottage Knits

Allegra and I'll see you there!

Lemon tree very pretty,
and the lemon flower is sweet;
but the fruit of the poor lemon
is impossible to eat.
(I used to have that record. Harry Belefonte, yum!)

I wish I could grow a lemon tree!

I can't imagine your growing season is long enough to GET a lemon off the tree! Wow, I can't believe it FLOWERED for that matter! i, for one, will be very interested to see this project's progress!

Indeed, "gay lifestyle" always cracks me up....yeah, I'm quite the party animal myself...My big thrill is watching Law & Order and I consider a trip to LYS to be, well, nirvana. Sheesh.

Lisa, one of the tricks is that this lemon tree is up against a cement brick wall so sun bounces off the wall and creates a little hot, bright oasis of light and heat for it. Although, er, "tree" is bit of a misnomer; the plant itself is all of 2' tall.

C'mon, let us live with the delusion that someone out there is getting some.
(Really, I meant lemons.)
I live in a citrus-friendly state, and STILL can't grow them. Turns out you actually have to water them. Who knew?

I, for one, happen to think that lemonettes, pink and white blossoms, tiny glasses of lemonade, and lemon meringue ARE flip-my-hair-like-a-Prell-commercial sexy!

Well, MaryLee, we'll just have to toast you with our wee little glasses of lemonade, then!

Beautiful lemon tree-ette. A co-worker here at sandpoint has a 1 inch lemon on his office tree; it can be done!

on gay lifestyle: When once asked exactly what we do in bed I replied (probably stolen from someone more quick witted than I) "The same thing you do, fight over the remote!"

Speak for your own gay lifestyle. MY gay lifestyle is a mad whirl of drugs and sex and... okay, it's mainly little dogs and video games. And banjos! banjos count towards the mad whirl, right?

Yay for the lemon tree! I had a key lime tree when I was growing up in Miami. There is nothing like your own pie fixin's from your own tree.

Thank you so much for that link to the free pattern page. I'll definitely be making some of the kids stuff.

Banjos???!

Kinky!

I have a meyer lemon tree that looks similar to yours. . . There were no blossoms at all when I bought it in July and this weather has been terrific for it. I too am keeping it outside (for now) on our patio where it gets reflected heat. BTW my good friends had several lemons on their tree (about three feet tall) that made a terrific lemon tart. . . all happening in northeast Seattle!!

Thanks for the free pattern site too!!

Cheers! clink, clink.

Ruthanne, I think the tree is, in fact, a meyer just like yours. TMK, correct me if I'm wrong.

Elaine, I just noticed--Sandpoint?!! You 'n' me, girl, we have to talk.

Ryan - I emailed your yahoo account and I'll be here face-first into my computer until 4:30. Feel free to get in touch!

I'm trying to grow an orange tree in Montréal. I'm straightish, but I, too, indulge in the fantasy whirlwind of impossible citrus production...

It's August and we almost turned the heat on this morning. So much for sultry, eh?

I am so down with the lemon-blossom hovering. Just wait until it blooms--the fragrance is enchanting!

The first two fruits are dangling from my Meyer lemon wee tree (treelet? treeling?). I love all my plants, but there is really something special about growing fruit.

2 years ago on a lark, I bought a papaya and planted 15 or so of its seeds... 10 sprouted, I gave away 8 (they all died), kept 2, one died, and the other one... well, it is the prettiest greenest cheeriest 3-foot-tall growing-like-a-weed house-tree you could ever hope for. I hope it fruits someday, but... I don't like papaya! Its leaves are really deeply palmate, so when it was littler, everyone thought it looked like marijuana. :)

How old is the little lemon tree? It sometimes takes several years to actually mature into fruit! (this is a particularly timely post to me, because I nearly took severl pictures of Lucy, my pink-lemonade-Lemon Tree in my kitchen who has about 15 of those little flowers on her suddenly)

The flowers don't always turn into actual lemons, and my experience with Lucy has been that the first round of lemons turn into little half inch fruit that get knocked off too easily. I'm hoping this round will be more successful (Lucy is just turning three, and it often takes three years or more to bear fruit)

Good luck!

This past winter was my first here in California since I was a kid, and the citrus fruit trees really blow my mind. The college campus I work on has managed to develop quite a little orchard over the years and I never stopped boggling at it. Of course I also still boggle at palm trees occasionally...

The little lemon tree is lovely! Don't despair if you don't get lemons this year, but you probably will. Meyers are like that.

I planted 2 Meyers 5 years ago (when we bought the house we were told all the citrus had died, and I MUST have fresh lemons, otherwise why live in CA?) and got fruit the first year. This year they're over 10' tall (dwarf, my butt!) and covered with fruit.

SF Bay Area is cooler and wetter than much of sunny CA; I'm told it's not much different than Seattle except Seattle gets more rain.

Oh, and the dead citrus? Not at all. Now I have 5 lemon trees...want some?

You make me laugh! At the house my parents lived in before the one they're in now, my dad planted an apple tree. Each year that stupid tree would bear fruit in the form of ONE lousy, measly little applelet. With great ceremony, my dad would quarter the apple so that we could all share in the harvest. Reg'lar Johhny Appleseed he is. May your harvest be more fruitful!

I planted a Meyer lemon outside 3 years ago. It got blossoms in the spring and now has green fruit. I checked on those blossoms every day because they were so sweet smelling.

Back to my straight wild life of spreading manure and napping with the pets.
Bye yall!