Oh, yes. Lots :-) When my hubby and I moved into this lovely home, we inherited several mystery citrus trees, all extremely neglected. Zero water, just whatever the previous owners could water by hand, or what the sprinkler would reach (which was essentially zero). Amazing they all survived. For sure I've got a Eureka Lemon and a Meyer Improved. The Meyer is the wunderkind tree - despite the neglect, it is covered with about 200 lemons right now, and it's a dwarf. Last winter I had Meyer lemons coming out my ears. I think this tree due to the neglect, is cycling, instead of having ready fruit all the time. I now have, again, about 200 lemons that are riping. The fruit on the lower branches are turning yellow, and all the fruit towards the top still has a ways to go. 3 other mystery citrus trees yet to be identified - probably lemon, possibly one Valencia orange - all due to no fruit, and I didn't get a good look at the flush to see if it was lemon-like (purplish). Few thorns, but the trees have been here for several years. I just put into the ground today these lovely additions, all semi-dwarf but with the promise from Clausen's that they won't get bigger than 8 feet (personally, in N. San Diego County, I find that hard to believe, but I'm taking him at his word): Rio Red Grapefruit (crossing my fingers we get enough heat) Melogold Grapefruit Cocktail Grapefruit Moro Blood Orange (ditto with the heat) Pixie Tangerine Algerian (Clemintine) Tangerine Bearss Lime I was chatting with a great gal out in Palm Desert on another gardening chat list, and she shared her photos of her Minneola Tangelo sport that is variegated!! I am hoping I can drive out there and get a branch to graft. I've not ever grafted citrus trees, so I'm hoping I can have some success with this. Have to get the right rootstock, so I'll give Clausen's a call and see what I can get so that I have something right for my soil, and won't get too big. The fruit are WAY cool looking!! Too bad I can't grow them from seed, which would be easier. I'll snap some pics of my little orchard up on the hill tomorrow. We're hoping for some nice rain tomorrow morning. I backfilled and topped all the wells with compost, did a very light fertilizing with some Vigiro Citrus, double dripped everything, and I'm going to set up a separate station for just my fruit trees so I can do a once a week deep watering for a bit. Then, once everyone looks happy, move to every 2 to 3 weeks deep watering. And, I'll spray with Spinosad/Volck Oil tomorrow evening after the rains, and hang my pheromone traps. And wrap the trunks to keep the rats, mice, rabbits, gophers and other nasty rodent-type varmints away from the trunks. Lastly, I'll bait for roof rats when the traps come in. I swear to goodness. I'm going to be the only one eating the fruit off these trees! Patty S.

Okay, so you have enough room for 4 trees total. I would select a lemon, and orange and the Page mandarin. For the lemon, I would say the Lisbon will probably give you the shape you're after. It is more upright and dense than the Eureka. But, downside is, that is really is much more thorny than a Eureka, and the fruit tends to be inside the tree, as opposed to a Eureka, which bears its fruit on the outside of the tree. The Eureka tends to be more open in its growth habit, the Lisbon more upright. But shape can be changed by pruning. So, maybe rose gloves are in order :-) Both are very prolific producers, so you'll have lovely yellow lemons on your tree year round. For the orange, I would go with the Cara Cara because it's a navel for one, and because the flesh is pink, which is kind of cool. The Trovita is a nice juice orange, however, so it really depends on what you want for eating as well as for looks. The Cara Cara is better for eating out of hand. The Trovita better for juicing. Take into consideration what you want to eat, as well as for looks. You would then have a very nice citrus collection, and trees that will provide a nice, dense screening for you. Patty S.

I've checked 5 costcos in in the last week (SD County), all trees are Franz nursery. Lots of lemons and limes, most oranges are Owari satuma or Clementine, dwarf and regular found but not both at the same store, with the odd washington navel, one tango didn't look so good. Only one out of four costcos had any grapefruit, star ruby and oroblanco I think (palamar airport) and some budda hand (escondido). I think I saw a Minneola Tangelo in one store. Several Calamondin and Mandarinquat in several stores. I grabbed an owari satsuma on unknown with a lot of young growth as I had no orange trees yet, haven't planted in ground yet, likes my cheap greenhouse enough to bud out in the week I've had it. I think the old pictures of W&N trees look a lot nicer for a cheaper tree, as the price was $21 before tax, but I still think what I got was worth the price. Was hoping for a Tarocco blood orange this year, but Franz has none assuming this is accurate (http://www.frantznursery.com/pdf/Frantz-Availability.pdf), and would explain why I haven't found any blood oranges. Then again, there's this page which has blood oranges (http://www.frantznursery.com/products/citrus/) so might be later this year or supply problems

Thanks for all the suggestions! I actually found blood oranges and kumquats today so we got to try them for the first time. I got four blood oranges, two with dark red coloring on the peel and two with a lighter blush in case of a flavor difference. We tried the dark colored ones and I did like it, it was interesting to taste both sweet and bitter? in the same fruit. It did have the distinct berry taste I read about. I think my husband was disappointed with the taste but my kids thought it was great. The kumquat was new to us too. I'm not sure what variety it was but I loved it. I ate the ones that were all orange (some had a hint of green) and it was interesting that the fruit was a bit lemony and the peel was sweet. They also seemed to be more sour by the stem and sweeter at the end, but maybe it was just me. My littlest loves anything edible so they both were a big hit for him but the verdict is still out on my 11 year old and husband. Patty S.-I had heard rumors that a tangerine was a mandarin but wasn't sure. I'm not positive about the varieties I have. Everything except my Meyer lemon and the new one I'm picking out have come from a nursery with horrible reviews on the garden watchdog site. The plants themselves look healthy and my experience with their customer service was good but the order processing time was forever and they don't seem knowledgeable about the plants themselves. The dwarf venous orange in particular I cannot find any information on. Steve-You have beautiful plants! You said you got 60 feet of twig growth between October and may!?! That has to be across all your plants, not just the tangerine, right? Or is it adding all the new growth from one tree together? I do have the sun on my side here and would LOVE to put a greenhouse against my wall like you. Unfortunately I am renting and probably won't be allowed to build it. I will ask just in case. My yard is the perfect size to turn into a greenhouse. Even just one half of the yard would fit many plants. They might veto real glass but I'll have to ask about the clear pro-panels? Or plexi-glass attached to wooden frames. My kids would love a warm spot during the winter too. How good are figs? I think I've only had them in fig-newtons but I love those.