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[David W Hausmann <wizard2468@juno.com>]

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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