For us here at The Drip, lemon trees in terracotta pots are a potent reminder of happy times spent in Tuscany, in Sicily and on the Amalfi Coast.
We have a small collection of old Florentine-style terracotta pots in which we grow a number of varieties of lemon. This very young "lemonade tree", a gift from Clive's Mum, Elizabeth Poolman, has just borne fruit for the first time, providing a fresh Vitamin C drink just when it is needed in mid-winter.
The wire guard protecting the tree from destruction by wallabies will be dispensed with when we have finally enclosed The Main Courtyard and can at last provide a safe environment. For more on The Main Courtyard click here to go to the relevant page of our new website.
LOL! I don't need wire around my lemon and orange trees! Of course, we've no wallabies in France!!!!!
ReplyDeleteReading that, I was a little bit surprised, and suddenly I look for "Mudgee" on Google! I saw it was in....Australia!LOL
The web is a marvellous thing!
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Not only wallabies! We also have kangaroos, possums, wombats, cockatoos, goannas and many other creatures all very interested in our gardens here. Is it a garden or is it a zoo? I wonder.
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