All reviews for category Unusual citrus trees

Well packaged, received within the expected timeframe, nothing to complain about. Lemon tree in great condition, well pruned, size matches the description on the website. I'm eagerly awaiting the first fruit, there are already flowers.

Some news about my finger lime, it's starting to bloom. I'm watching over it carefully. Thank you again for this wonderful plant. Kind regards.

Very beautiful plant, even though it suffered during transportation. Suffering caused by the carrier. I am looking forward to seeing how it starts in the spring. Thank you very much for your advice. Best regards.

I'm waiting for spring to have lemons.

I received the tree quite quickly and I waited...;-) it grew branches, branches, branches and I pruned it. I now hope that it will have beautiful flowers that will produce nice fruits. Otherwise, the service is impeccable.

Plant purchased in November for my husband's birthday and it's now June, still no sign of growth! And it keeps drying out... even though we repotted it and gave it fertilizer. I have several citrus plants that have been thriving for years, but this one is disappointing. I hope it will start growing again... otherwise, quick delivery, no problem.

Well packaged, in perfect condition upon arrival, lovely little shrub perfectly healthy and immediately planted.

I can't believe I received my parcel in just two days. The lemon tree is beautiful and bigger than I expected. I hope I'll know how to take care of it, I'm sure I'll find the right information on the website. Thank you very much, you've gained a customer :-)

The lemon tree has a wound running the entire length of the trunk. I am surprised that this shrub was not supposed to be delivered in this condition. I also notice a general decline in the quality of your products for the past two years, with a lot of loss during transplantation.

There are many varieties and cultivars of citrus fruits that can withstand our mild and humid climates on the Atlantic coast and in the West, all in open ground, with completely edible or somewhat edible fruits as long as one has a sheltered garden (preferably in the city), enclosed by walls or low walls (preferably in rectangles) facing South/Southwest, with very well-draining soil (30 cm (12in) layer of gravel at the bottom of the hole, river or Loire sand mixed with good loamy soil with additions of citrus compost, a bit of crushed horn, a few pine needles on the surface, and some care and pruning to be provided throughout the year (watering, occasional shading, citrus fertilizer, preventive and curative treatments if necessary, planting at the base of some very useful nectar-bearing perennials to avoid harmful insects (cicadas, olive flies, mites, aphids...) and other citrus diseases (mal seco, tristeza, alternaria leaf spot, anthracnose, chlorosis...) such as oregano or officinal thyme, verveine bonariensis, pyrethrum, marigolds...! It is important to install a drip irrigation system or, even better, to create a raised edge around the tree with the addition of some pebbles if possible to attract wall lizards and eyed lizards. Installing/fabricating an insect house is a real plus, attracting pollinating insects (honeybees, solitary bees, bumblebees, hoverflies, ladybugs...) and also birdlife (tits, goldfinches, bullfinches, greenfinches, house sparrows...). What I do is plant under the canopy of olive trees (négrette, ubac, ardéchois, cypréssino, caillet, cuers, aglandau) and even under certain varieties of eucalyptus (nitens, dalrymbipleana, coccinea, camphorata or mallees like the smaller menthol eucalypts). Knowing the rootstocks is very important, as well as the scions and the variety to choose for one's region and the level at which the graft is made and its quality, observing the root system, its container, the substrate used, checking for bark splitting, leaf necrosis... and not just relying on labels (the Italian ones from Sicily say too little!) and not just relying on phytosanitary certification authorizations please! It's often a shame that nursery advisers know too little about the varieties they sell, as well as horticulturists outside citrus-producing regions! Surprisingly, the producers of extremely rare varieties to find in France are Czech, Tuscan, Swiss, Dutch, German, Russian, and Catalan Spanish! French professional citrus plant producers/retailers with diverse and highly resistant varieties are unfortunately very rare nowadays, the company "promessedefleurs" is one of the few in the northern part of the country that sells them, and furthermore, of good quality at a reasonable price! The following varieties work very well outdoors and produce edible fruits (sometimes with a slight taste of poncirine*, the most cold-resistant rootstock and resistant to many diseases and deficiencies*): 'Rusk', 'Morton', 'Benton' citranges (lemoncitrus), citradrias, 'Sanford (F2) Curafora' segentranges, Poncirus x Japanese Unshiu mandarin 'owari', 'hashimoto', ichang/ichang papeda/c.ichangensis x citrus.sinensis lemon trees, 'Changsha', 'Shekwasha', 'cléopâtra' mandarin trees, citrus.glauca x shekwasha kumquats, 'Meiwa', 'ovalis', 'fortunata obovata fukushu', 'Tavares limquats', citrumello 'US119', ichanglemon "Shangjuan', Val Rameh '4475', citrus sudachi papeda, 'Duncan', 'Enzo' pomelos, Chinese 'Hirado Buntan' pomelos (fruits remaining green but with highly fragrant double flowering), '174' lemoncitrus, 'latipes or kashi papeda' citrus, 'cara-cara', 'karna-katta', 'new-hall', 'corsica' orange trees (producing few fruits but a delight), some acidic varieties hold up well against all odds such as Tangello Minneola, C.sanguinelli, Citrus 'Dancy', Meyer lemons, 'meyer de Pezenas', meyer x sanguinelli (if on Poncirus rootstock), 'volkameriana', citrus x junos, 'rangpur jaune/rouge', c.otaïensis'; 'yuzu', 'cabossu', citrange C-35 (rootstock with edible fruits), citrange C-32 (rootstock with edible fruits), among the Australian limes citrus australis 'sydney hibryd' or 'Rofaustrime', Eremoleon glauca, Coachella eremoleon, eremocitrus sinensis, bergamot trees and green limes, sweet lemons I have never succeeded with any apparently grafted on poncirus or volkamer! Some varieties of bitter orange trees can hold up, especially the 'chinotto', but I think in excellent conditions and with summer shading, 'main de buddha' and 'Florence' citrons are capable of surviving/re-growing from the base after frosts! Check for hardiness in regions sheltered from westerly winds and the English Channel that the rootstocks and scions are not from the bitter orange tree, C.macrophilla, Severina buxifolia, but unfortunately this is rarely indicated on commercial labels, and when calling or emailing, the responses are often slow! If the bark is yellow when lightly scratched, it's often C.macrophilla! Citrus trees grafted high on branches and well-branched are better for our humid and potentially cold regions, the Sicilians, Moroccans... often practice low grafts and bushy growth! (this list of successful citrus varieties is not exhaustive, many others are unavailable in Europe/Russia, even more so in France, California/Texas/Utah USA are potential sources but impossible to obtain in France, except for possible seeds! They are vitamins within reach and beneficial to try without too much risk in our flowerbeds, for our health, over time they are not expensive (easy cuttings and seedlings) a real asset for ornamentation, for the useful and vital biodiversity of our gardens, the beauty of our orchards! It would be great if 'promessedefleurs' could dedicate one or more informative articles on citrus trees acclimatable in open ground in our so-called 'cold regions' and by expanding their range of grafted citrus varieties, including those mentioned above or others that are just as resistant! And then at Christmas we give oranges or mandarins/clementines, and they are quite expensive and often treated with chemical substances and waxes like Imazalil... which are known to be carcinogenic and allergenic!