Originally Posted by Heathpack

We have a little dwarf palm tree in our front yard that really needs slightly warmer winter weather than we have. It was planted by the contractor we bought our house from. It was a cute little three trunk thing but with us being in not quite the right climate zone for the little tree, it’s been slowly dying. We’re down to just one of the side trunks and that arches off to one side which looked nice when there were 3 trunks but now looks weird.

So the dwarf palm has got to go. I want to replace it with a dwarf citrus tree of some kind. Help me decide which kind.

I already have Eureka lemons (these are the basic supermarket kind) and Oro blanco grapefruit which is a grapefruit pummelo cross that I super duper love.

Limes would be nice because: mojitos. I have a killer mint patch. But limes are pretty cheap at the grocery store in these parts.

Tangerines: attractive tree, but lots of fruit and peel. Potential to get overwhelmed with fruit that takes a lot of processing time to get rid of the excess (ie peeling a zillion tangerines and juicing then freezing would take forever, I ain’t got time for that)

Navel oranges overlap in season with the grapefruit (both ripen in winter), so: fruit salad. But also: overabundance of fruit. Then again: no need to buy much fruit all winter.

Valencia orange aka juice oranges, these ripen in summer. So I could have fresh citrus most of the year.

Blood oranges. Expensive at the store. Red color = phytonutrients, that’s good. This might be the winner.

Meyer lemons grow great here but I’m not wild about them, so they’re out.

I will go to the nursery this weekend and seek professional opinions. But you gotta ask Addiction too.