My Temple Orange Flower

My Temple Orange Flower

Temple Orange flower

This is a follow up to my other post of my Temple Orange Tree. Today the flower is fully open and you can start seeing it much better. There are other buds forming around it which may soon open as well.

Take a look! These flowers are clearly smaller than the Meyer Lemon buds so it might be safe to say that the Temple orange might be a smaller fruit that the Meyer Lemon. I believe it resembles the calamondin in size, but I could be wrong.

Temple Orange flower

Quick update of my Meyer Lemon Tree buds

I just wanted to post a quick update of my Meyer Lemon Tree buds.


I happened to have a couple skeptical people on a forum that thought that perhaps I didn't have a Meyer Lemon Tree as their buds/blooms are usually purple.

So, I decided to post a more recent picture and if you look closely the largest bud on the left and the one slightly out of focus in the middle both are starting to get some purple in them.

I know these are closeups, but I'm pretty sure that the largest bud is getting very close to opening up.

I  can't wait to smell the flowers as I hear they are very refreshing.

Here's the picture I took about twenty minutes ago.

Meyer Lemon Tree buds

I really hope that by next weekend this bud decides to open up.  And soon after that I will attempt to help pollinate the flowers. On the other side of the plant I have two other clusters of buds, but they are smaller at this time.

I'll post again in a few days.

My little indoor garden is growing!

I did some research on citrus trees as I really want to grow one. I had looked at one before, but it was about $30 and I ended up being trigger shy on purchasing it.

But I found some great information on another blog about this site:  www.directgardening.com
They are rated very highly and have a great assortment of plants, trees, etc to order and grow.

And on top of that the prices are very good.

They have tons of information on all they sell and have a vast variety as well.

I felt very confident ordering from them and ordered myself a Dwarf Tangerine tree.

I should be getting it in about 2 weeks.

I'm pretty excited as I hear they emit a wonderful fragrance and they should produce fruit in my first season.

I'll update again once I receive my small tree.