The exotic nature of citrus | Wednesday, July 26, 2006 |
Some years ago whilst on a mountain biking trip to Andalucia (one I might add that was supposed to be a warm, late spring break but was anything but) we stopped in Seville for break.
Planted in the middle of the streets were Orange trees (presumably of the famed Seville variety used in Marmalade) which coming from the UK seemed very exotic. England has apples and pears in abundance but very little citrus (people do grow it, but I don't think there is much commercial cropping). Karen and Pete have a temon tree that produces very acceptable fruit in their garden in Wellington. Pretty exotic to have one of those in your yard if you ask me.
The Northern parts of Australia are overflowing with pineapples, bananas (except like as now when cyclones have recently visited and decimated the crop), limes, oranges and grapefruits.
Whilst parking the car in a street near the office, I noticed that someone has a tree in their garden with some kind of citrus fruit, most likely oranges or grapefruits. It's set back from the road so I can't tell for sure if the fruit are purely ornamental, but they look a very respectable size indeed.
Planted in the middle of the streets were Orange trees (presumably of the famed Seville variety used in Marmalade) which coming from the UK seemed very exotic. England has apples and pears in abundance but very little citrus (people do grow it, but I don't think there is much commercial cropping). Karen and Pete have a temon tree that produces very acceptable fruit in their garden in Wellington. Pretty exotic to have one of those in your yard if you ask me.
The Northern parts of Australia are overflowing with pineapples, bananas (except like as now when cyclones have recently visited and decimated the crop), limes, oranges and grapefruits.
Whilst parking the car in a street near the office, I noticed that someone has a tree in their garden with some kind of citrus fruit, most likely oranges or grapefruits. It's set back from the road so I can't tell for sure if the fruit are purely ornamental, but they look a very respectable size indeed.
