Grew a lemon!

[bunn]

Despite the roof coming off the room it lives in and spending a couple of weeks on its side in the wind rain and wreckage, then months shoved into a corner by a window while all the building work was done, when the roof went back on, this little tree managed flowers, in July:




and then lots of tiny fruits, in August:



Which back in November were still very green but a little larger:


And finally, though many of the fruits fell off, there were a few left... and now they really look like lemons! Today's photo:



I don't know what I'm going to do with them, but I am very pleased they exist. The pot has Corsican mint, which is a tiny delicate beautifully-scented mint, planted as a pot covering, and that too has made it through the hard times and is now florishing. I like running my hands over it and smelling the gorgeously minty scent. The flowers had a most wonderful scent, too.

I am hoping that maybe next spring, the tiny orange tree will manage some flowers too. It had a harder time with the building work and afterwards it seemed to have a bit of a nervous breakdown, failed to make any new leaves, really, and then got a terrible outbreak of scale insect.
So fingers crossed it will be happier in 2023. No photos of that because it's not really fair to photograph it while it's feeling so sad.

Comments

[narya_flame]

LEMONS!!! How delightful :D

[smallhobbit]

Hooray for lemons 🍋

[starspray]

Hurray for lemons! I hope the orange tree recovers from its ordeal.

[independence1776]

Neat!

[krait]

Lemon tree! Very pretty. :D

I am very jealous and wish that I had citrus trees growing in my house, so I'm happy that your little lemon friend survived and even managed to make some fruit! The Corsican mint sounds lovely, too.

[jane_ways]

How delightful! I wish we could grow citrus here. Even with the longer growing season and the hot summers, it gets too cold in the winter, unless you have a good sunroom setup. But we do have surprisingly good weather for hot peppers--we had an abundant crop of habaneros and another of a "mystery hot pepper" that was some kind of habanero varietal (I suspect a Trinidad scorpion). We made them into a hot sauce (with mango and strawberry!) so, being on the theme of liquids, I advocate that you turn those lemons into a cocktail (or mocktail) 🍹

[mrowe]

Woohoo! Let's hear it for the lemon tree!

[elennalore]

Wow! I love this series of development pics. Congrats!

[anna_wing]

Well done! They can be juiced for lemonade and the peel candied.

[zdenka]

Well done, little lemon tree!! That's very cool. I hope your orange tree starts feeling better!

[saelind]

Oh my gosh!! So cool!!

[anerea]

Oh, the little lemon tree that could! I love it!

[chainmailmaiden]

That's wonderful, and I hope you manage to find something nice to make with them. Lemon Drizzle cake? Lemon curd? Or slice and freeze them to pop into drinks straight from the freezer?

[sally_maria]

Yay, Lemons!

It's so good to hear something is thriving.

[grundyscribbling]

Yay for lemons!