My lemons are a little orange in colour. This photo makes them look even more orangey. We live on the side of a hill, and you can see the solar panels on our roof peaking under the branches.
I'm posting this because the flowers right now are making the entire property smell gorgeous! So sweet! So fresh! The bees seem to think so as well!
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Karl Auerbach
in reply to Muse • • •That color (and shape) looks like Meyers Lemons. (We have both Eureka and Meyers varieties growing at our house.) Have you tried Mexican limes - it took our tree several years to produce, but now it is giving us more nice small round limes than we can use.
(We've got other citrus as well, such as kumquats and bergamot.)
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in reply to Muse • • •We are at the northern limit for Mexican ("key") limes, most people here grow the Persian variety and a few people do the kieffer (sp) limes for the leaves to use in cooking.
I wish we could do Santa Rosa plums - the best plums - but those want the kind of heat that is on the other side of the mountains. Blenheim apricots also want a lot more heat than we have. (Same for oranges.) Lemons like the cooler coastal weather we have.
My mother had several avacado trees - they like the southern California coastal weather, but it's too cool here.
We are also doing a California native coastal apple - Sierra Beauty. It was a lost variety until one tree was discovered in the Anderson valley (near Mendocino). All Sierra Beauty trees are descended from that one tree.
We have several large commercial apple growers in the area; and one national apple juice brand (Martinellis). I am surprised at the lack of apple ciders.
I wanted to do a California Mission olive - they seem to do reasonably well here, although they do like more heat. But it is a producing olive and t
... show moreWe are at the northern limit for Mexican ("key") limes, most people here grow the Persian variety and a few people do the kieffer (sp) limes for the leaves to use in cooking.
I wish we could do Santa Rosa plums - the best plums - but those want the kind of heat that is on the other side of the mountains. Blenheim apricots also want a lot more heat than we have. (Same for oranges.) Lemons like the cooler coastal weather we have.
My mother had several avacado trees - they like the southern California coastal weather, but it's too cool here.
We are also doing a California native coastal apple - Sierra Beauty. It was a lost variety until one tree was discovered in the Anderson valley (near Mendocino). All Sierra Beauty trees are descended from that one tree.
We have several large commercial apple growers in the area; and one national apple juice brand (Martinellis). I am surprised at the lack of apple ciders.
I wanted to do a California Mission olive - they seem to do reasonably well here, although they do like more heat. But it is a producing olive and those are messy trees. So we have an olive tree that doesn't produce much.
I wanted to do passion fruit, but it is beyond invasive, and it tends to provide home for rats.
Santa Cruz is strawberry (and artichoke) territory, so I figure why should I try to grow what others do better. (Although we do have some large growers who go for color and size rather than flavor.)
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