The most recent addition to our plant menagerie is Lemon Tree. He was offered to me by my co-worker Maureen as she relocated to the Chicago area earlier this year. When we got him, he had only about a half dozen leaves & I wasn't sure how he'd do in our fairly shady backyard. As you can see from the photos below, "Lem" (my nickname for him) is doing quite well - so well, in fact, that he has TEN little lemons on him at the moment...
Maureen said that she's gotten lemons off of Lem before, but I wasn't sure we'd be so lucky. Fingers crossed that I can coax the little lemons to maturity & be rewarded with their juice...
