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  • From: David W Hausmann <wizard2468@juno.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] indoor citrus
  • Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:18:05 -0600

Dear Michelle,
How's it going? Do you by any chance remember where you got the dwarf
banana? I would LOVE to have one! Have a Good One! Love, Peace and
Perception

Wizard
Saint Louis, Missouri


On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:30:44 -0800 "Michelle Horner" <shelly2@wi.rr.com>
writes:
> yes Deb, its worthwhile if only for the fragrance of the flowers. I
> got sucked down this deep hole by Roger Swain's articles several
> years ago--as he admired his dwarf kumquats in a window of his home
> in the Vermont winter. Now I have a veritable citrus orchard that I
> haul in and out of my basement 2x/year. A kiffer lime for Thai
> cooking, 2 calamondine oranges--very prolific; 2 kumquats--very
> prolific; 1 lemon, 1 lime tree (shrub would be better description).
> They seem to blossom very late fall, early winter, so I hand
> pollinate with plucked male blossoms or a Q-tip. One small tree is
> tremendously fragrant!! It will be smelled all over the house.
> (friends ask what new Johnson Wax product I'm using!) I am in SE
> Wis, zone 4/5. I put the pots in my veggie garden for the summer,
> for height and interest. They are also fun to train in a sort of
> mini-espalier or Bonsai. I also have a dwarf banana, and 2 dwarf
> pomegranates (these bloom with a beautiful fuchsia-type blossom that
> I have not been able to pollinate or cross-pollinate--but are also
> worth the show in the middle of a blustery winter)
>
> I guess that is more like three-cents worth. But sincere.
>
> Michelle Horner

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