Citrus: A Gardeners' & Fruit Lovers' Guide

This is one of the best citrus guides for backyard growers that we have seen.  Easy to read, full of great information on citrus varieties and how to grow them.  This book is tailored to the citrus growing areas of the country however the information and growing techniques in the book can be used most anywhere.  We will have these available in limited quantities.

Publishers Description:
For anyone who grows citrus or wants to begin, this book offers complete, up-to-date information for selecting and growing both new and tried-and-true varieties of oranges, mandarins, lemons, limes, grapefruit, and kumquats, as well as exotic citrus. Author Lance Walheim tailored the book to gardeners in California, Arizona, Texas, the Gulf Coast, Florida and the southern Atlantic states of Georgia and South Carolina, but also explains how to grow citrus successfully in cold-winter areas and indoors. Walheim offers practical methods for making citrus part of outdoor living areas-in entries, backyards, courtyards, and even in containers for patio gardens. He also tells how, with the varied harvest seasons of citrus, one can grow and enjoy fresh fruit almost year-round. Walheim also discusses alternative, organic methods of pest control.

Please keep in mind that we are unable to ship any citrus to AZ, CA, HI, FL, LA, TX.  These restrictions are due to USDA Agricultural laws. We do ship growing supplies such as potting mix, fertilizer and non citrus material items to AZ, FL, LA, and TX.

• We ship via UPS Ground
• We ship Mondays & Tuesday mornings.
• If your order is placed after 9am on Tuesday it will likely ship the next week.
• Trees may need to be topped or pruned to fit in the box.
• Tracking number will be emailed to you when your order ships, please check your spam folder if you don't see an email.

These are a few questions we are often asked and their answers:

• Why dont you ship to FL or CA?
  We aren't able to due to USDA restrictions, we wish we could but we can't.
• When will my tree fruit?
  We graft with certified mature buds so our trees are capable of flowering and producing fruit in the first season, but will definitely flower and produce fruit in the second season. We recommend removing fruit for the first couple years to allow the tree to focus on branching and growing roots.
• What does this variety taste like?
  In most cases the original Budwood program we purchased Certified buds from does not offer much in the way of descriptions or taste information. We then grow those buds out and continuously harvest new buds and then sell young trees so we simply don't always end up with fruit to try so unless its listed, we don't know what they taste like.
• Do you have anymore of these available?
  We try hard to add inventory when it grows large enough, if a product shows as 0 available please click the notify button to be emailed as soon as we add inventory to the site.
• What rootstock is this grafted onto?
  We use a handful of rootstock varieties for different reasons when we are grafted. If the variety says "Dwarf" then that variety is grafted to Flying Dragon. If it is not listed as Dwarf then we either used a standard rootstock or semi dwarfing rootstock. When fully mature the difference between Dwarf and Standard is only about 80% difference, it just takes dwarf longer to grow that large. You can maintain tree size through pot size and effective pruning.