{"id":108380,"date":"2019-06-23T17:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/plant-limes-for-fragrance-and-flavour-james-wong\/"},"modified":"2019-06-23T17:04:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T10:04:11","slug":"plant-limes-for-fragrance-and-flavour-james-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/plant-limes-for-fragrance-and-flavour-james-wong\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant limes for fragrance and flavour | James Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThese unusual citrus trees will add real zest to your garden \u2013 and kitchenCitrus trees are without a doubt among the most popular of all ornamental plants worldwide \u2013 and with good reason. They are the ultimate horticultural multitaskers, offering beautiful flowers on a patio outdoors in summer and glossy-leaved evergreen houseplants when brought in for the winter. Of course, there\u2019s attractive, tasty fruit, too \u2013 and that\u2019s before we even talk about the uplifting scent of their blossoms.However, there is always one small caveat: the vast majority of citrus plants I see in garden centres are oranges, lemons and the occasional clementine or mandarin \u2013 the same fruit that are incredibly easy and cheap to buy in the shops. This is a shame considering that the cost of the plants easily outweighs any harvest you\u2019d ever get. If only we picked some of the rarer varieties (there are at least 100), we could get some wonderfully unusually flavoured fruit that is essentially unbuyable in the shops \u2013 all for the same price and level of care as one of their more common cousins. So if you are toying with the idea of giving citrus a go, here are my top three unusual plants for great flavour. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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These unusual citrus trees will add real zest to your garden \u2013 and kitchenCitrus trees...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-sc4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":69724,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/zest-for-life-citrus-plants-to-grow-at-home\/","url_meta":{"origin":108380,"position":0},"title":"Zest for life: citrus plants to grow at home","date":"October 22, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Whether you\u2019re after a lemon-scented houseplant or a key-lime plant with which to make pies, there\u2019s are plenty of citrus varieties you can grow in the UKYes, it\u2019s that time of year again. 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