Delicious, organic key lime pie … from your own tree!
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• Easy to grow
• Fresh, organic fruit
• Great container plant
• Adapts to wide range of soil and climates
• Pest and disease resistant
• Fragrant blooms
The Mexican Lime, also known as the Key Lime bears intensely fragrant white blooms. Flowers are borne in good abundance in winter will add exotic perfume to your home or yard. Clusters of 6 fruits appear following bloom fade. Depending on your climate, you’ll have great luck with the Mexican Lime in your garden or grown in a container indoors. Succulent fresh limes grown at home far exceed the flavor quality of any purchased at your local market. Limes are great for cold drinks, deserts and garnishes. With an abundant free supply of key limes, you’ll soon be enjoying unique flavoring in many dishes that you cook.
The compact Mexican Lime plant comfortably fits in a really small space.
The thornless Mexican Lime is more of a shrub than a tree. In a container this citrus bush will mature to about 4 feet tall. Grown in your outdoor garden where climate permits, the key lime plant will mature to 8-ft. wide and 10-ft. tall. You can maintain it in a smaller form simply by pruning it once your Mexican Lime reaches the most desirable size. Whether you have a balcony garden, a small home or plenty of room outdoors you will have great luck growing our Mexican Lime plant.
The beautiful foliage of the Key Lime Tree is ornamental, lush and glossy.
The natural habit of this wonderful fruit bearing evergreen is upright and well branched. When the young fruits first appear, you will want to quickly thin it out to only 2 or 3 limes per cluster. This will increase the size of the finished fruit in every harvest. Don’t worry about what you’ll do with a bushel of limes all at once. Mexican Limes ripen a few at a time, so you will never be over run with fresh organic citrus goodness. This is an excellent benefit because your harvest time stretches on and on.
You get excellent tart tasting fruit and a beautiful evergreen all in one!
Some people call the Mexican Lime a Bartender’s Lime because it adds the perfect flavor to all mixed or soft drinks where limey goodness is welcome. You’ll love the fact that this compact citrus plant bears juicy, thick skinned fruit at a really early age. We know you’ll be anxious for those classic 2”-3” mouthwatering limes to appear. While you’re waiting for fruiting to begin, you will also enjoy the beauty of this little shrub.
Key Lime Trees are cold sensitive but have a great reputation as houseplants.
When shopping for your distinctive, aromatic Mexican Lime tree you will want to make sure you purchase one grown under strict guidelines. Vigorous plants for your home begin at the nursery that grows them from tiny babies. Brighter Blooms is well known for shipping only top quality plants that will make a statement from the moment they arrive. Reserve your new Mexican Lime tree today, our stock will not last long!
If you are colder than zone 8, you must bring your citrus tree indoors during the winter months.
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