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Hey, Jamie - 

Our citrus growing is  just an enjoyable fluke - we have key lime and kumquat flourishing in large pots that park outside our garage doors on the concrete where they are warmed by the house and accumulated warmth of sun on concrete during the day. If it's below 20 degrees we try to remember to drag the pots into the garage. We are not always successful, but they carry on regardless.  We haven't ever managed to remember to get a recording thermometer out there but we suspect that the little area runs a good ten degrees above the overall "yard".  No varietal info, they just came back with me from a trip home to Florida a few years ago

Ralph Denton at Pungo Palms Nursery here in Virginia Beach is really experimenting with hardy citrus and has some lovely full-sized trees in his yard.  They do have a website via one of those free servers - you'd have to do a google search on "pungo palms" and then click through.  I never do, the pop-ups just drive me mad, but both of them are good plant folks and do a lot of experimenting with how far they can push the local growing parameters.  Their specialty, of course, is hardy palms.

Sybil
...expecting almost 1/4" snow in Virginia Beach... (those of you in other climates may not immediately recognize that this constitutes a local emergency situation complete with gripping weather reports every fifteen minutes on the local news)

 mays@paradisenursery.com
 Paradise Nursery - Figs & Fruit Plants