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Description

Why wait years to enjoy your first home-grown limes? This established Citrus Lime 'Tahiti' arrives with fruit already developing, bringing an instant taste of the Mediterranean to your patio, conservatory or home.

The glossy evergreen foliage creates an attractive year-round feature, while wonderfully fragrant white blossom appears in late spring and early summer. These flowers develop into smooth, juicy and virtually seedless limes, typically ready to harvest from October.

Freshly picked limes are incredibly versatile. Slice them into drinks, squeeze them over food or use the juice and zest in sauces, cakes and desserts. Growing your own means you can pick fruit exactly when you need it, straight from the tree.

Keep your lime tree in its pot and position it somewhere sunny and sheltered throughout the warmer months. Water regularly during active growth, allowing excess water to drain freely, and feed with a specialist citrus fertiliser according to the pack instructions.

Lime trees are not frost hardy, so move the plant into a bright conservatory, greenhouse or other frost-free space before temperatures fall. Keep it in good light through winter and reduce watering, without allowing the compost to dry out completely.

Supplied as an established lime tree in a 4 litre pot, approximately 70-90cm tall and already carrying fruit.

Top Tips

For best results, bring indoors to cool area for winter.
Feed with specialist feed every month in spring and summer growth - they are hungry fellows.

Care Information

The sweetly-fragranced flowers appear all year round, especially in late winter, and fruit ripens up to 12 months later - so plants are often in flower and fruiting at the same time.
Citrus tend not to thrive in centrally heated homes, so from mid-June to late September, give plants a treat and transfer them outside to make the most of the available sunshine - but remember they are not frost tolerant so will need bringing under cover if cold nights threaten.
Only minimal pruning is required to reshape or remove dead or damaged shoots.

Watering:

In summer, water freely - ideally using rainwater, while in winter you can reduce the amount - allowing the surface to partially dry out before watering again. Always allow excess water to drain away.
Our beautiful Mediterranean citrus trees are grown in a slightly heavier growing medium, so be sure to take care when watering. Be sure not to overwater, as with all your plants, but also make sure not to allow the soil to dry out.

Delivery Information

Our experienced team at the nursery will always carefully package and send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive once you receive and plant them. Although most plants are extremely tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme of weather conditions, we always avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme frosts or heat is forecast. We also avoid dispatching orders over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. If you have ordered a 'pre-order' item, these will be sent out as soon as possible after the quoted dispatch date and we generally ship your entire order with any pre-ordered items. Once your order has been dispatched, we will send you an email with details on how you can track it.

We send most of our orders via a fully tracked courier service with Yodel. We will send you a tracking link as soon as your order has been dispatched. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, we will not require a signature on delivery, and we ask out couriers to leave your item in a safe place ad your delivery address.

*Please note, once your item has been delivered, we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your delivery address. If you have delivery instruction and require our courier to leave your item in a specific place, please let us know - there is an option to leave a message for the courier at the checkout.

For smaller and single-item orders, we may send these via the post with Royal Mail - Tracking will not be available for orders sent via this method.

**Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

For all orders, a small delivery fee of £4.99 will be charged or spend over £49.99 for FREE Delivery!

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