Very few flowers on my plants this spring unfortunately, but my salustiana orange seems to do reasonably well. This is the first open flower, which emerged as a huge bulb. The flower is quite large compared to what I'm used to see on my plants, but it's not as fragrant as some other types of orange are.

Nice looking plants you got there with a good darkgreen colour.
Few buds is better then none (like me )

Maybe, but it's still a little disappointment...
Last year I harvested about a kilo of meyer lemons. This year there are only 2 flower buds present...

But on the other hand, the meyer lemon didn't produce any growth or new leaves last year but currently there's a lot of new growth present.

More buds will probably come the next couple of weeks when the warm temperature is more stable.

Some backlit leaves... I always like the effect!

Buddha's hand with some chinotto below...


Valencia late...


Valencia late...


Chinotto...

I will be visiting Orangerie Jaeken today. They don't produce their own plants but instead import them from South Europe. Their new plant collection arrived recently so now may be a good time to go and take a look. Maybe I can find some interesting variety to add to my already overcrowded collection. But I'll have to be careful as my wife will be there too...

Varieties that come to mind that I may be interested in buying:
- Kaffir Lime
- Ponderosa Lemon
- Tarocco Orange
- Seville Orange (common or bouquet de fleurs)
- Some really dark pigmented blood clementine
- Some Citron (Corsican, Sicilian)
- Nine Pound Lemon
- ...

Too many wishes, too little room...

I should create a multi-grafted tree...

I myself think Kaffir lime is one of the coolest citrus plants to have for a collection. It's attractive, looks different from most citrus, smells amazing and it has usable leaves and zest.

I don't know if you have Gold Nuggest over there, but I think it's among the best tasting fruit of all the mandarins and oranges.

Let me know what Salustiana's fruit tastes like. That variety confuses me, I've seen it listed among the blood oranges at time, but I have never seen one that had pigmented fruit.

I haven't got the slightest idea what a kaffir lime smells or tastes like. Time to find out!

A salustiana orange is a "simple" orange very similar to a valencia. They are usually used for juicing. It's definitely not a blood or pigmented orange.

I don't think we have gold nuggets around here. But I have to admit that mandarins aren't my favorite kind of citrus. They are usually too sweet for me...

You probably checked out this page already...
http://users.kymp.net/citruspages/sweetoranges.html#salustiana

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Unusually well-colored at maturity.

Not sure if that qualifies as "blood orange"...


I went to Jaeken this afternoon and came back with a kaffir lime tree. They had some of the other plants in my wish list, but they were all too large to fit in the limited space I have.

The kaffir lime tree has a very unusual aroma when the leaves are crushed. First one experiences a lemony scent, but this is soon followed by a spicy, unusual, almost impossible to describe aroma.
This is a picture of my new plant...


While I was at the nursery I had the chance to taste a fruit of a soar orange "bouquet de fleurs". To my surprise the fruit wasn't bitter at all but had a sweet taste!

Well you certainly didn't procrastinate about getting the tree!!!

I love that variety.

What was I supposed to do? Go back home empty-handed?

I also found out today that they also sell the potting soil and fertiliser I usually use. Now I have a good reason to go there every now and then!

I have some Bouquet de Nice trees I grafted up recently, looking forward to seeing these double blooms.

Did you find the lime leaves aroma pleasant?