Have you ever tasted a kaffir lime? I ask because I hadn't, then I bought a tree. The fruit was, umm, different. I didn't know that you use the leaves, not eat the fruit haha That being said, mine was a very prolific tree. It will just grow and grow. I never fertilized mine, and it got about 5' tall in a year, from a 2.5'-3' tree. And was a heavy bearer. I pinched all the fruit I could, but seemed like for every 1 I pulled off, 10 more grew. I ended up replacing it with a bearss lime, and repotting my kaffir. It's bare right now, I hope it comes back. It really was a beautiful tree, just I didn't have the extra space for something I wouldn't regularly eat. Oh, and anyone in riverside, ca is more than welcome to come get this tree free of charge :) it's already in a 15 gallon, waiting to be taken to its new home :)

Hi! I don't know you but I like you what wonderful New Year wishes and prayers for everyone! My New Years wish goes for everyone on this forum! I have met the nices, most kindest, funniest new friends here,who have brought much laughter and joy into my heart! Dorothy,Lucy, Daniella,Mike,Eloise,Theresa,Brenda who is some one I've known from E-Bay quite some time now!Karyn and the list just goes on! So my wish is this, may you find love,happiness,peace,new friends,health and we all could use alittle money, so I hope our economy gets better so we keep jobs so we can provide our families, things they need! May God Bless each of you and keep you safe! Happy Near Year 2009! Your Friend, Susan P.S if your name was not mentioned it's still in my heart!

Great News! We received an offer yesterday! We played the game and countered, they came back and we have a signed contract for $510,000. Onto appraisals and inspections and hopefully house hunting for us! I know we're not out of the woods yet, but we're having a bottle of wine with dinner tonight!

Yep, birds and berries - always a risk...but I eat them too - there are few berries, heps and haws that have not found their way into various jams. jellies, chutneys and preserves - have been known to munch happily on fuschia and was thrilled when the rampant iochroma produced rather choice fruits. I discovered the joys of chokeberries, juneberries, saskatoons etc a few years ago and literally grew up on rosehip syrup and have been doing serious research into rubus varieties (so many...and often extremely beautiful too. Bearing in mind the paucity of UK natives (being an island under successive glaciations) the general horticultural thrust in Britain has been predicated on our imperial adventures and planthunting past...plus a very, very different attitude towards invasives, so yeah, I do chuck a lot of plant names about but compared to my recent past, I have become the soul of rectitude and responsibility...at least here in the woods (on the allotment, anything goes). Consider, for example, there are only 21 native species of tree...and a third of them are compromised by disease threats or utterly unsuitable to my soil...so I would say we are pretty much on the same page when it comes to increasing diversity - especially pertinent on a monoculture plantation such as mine. Every single inch of the UK has been managed, altered, refined by humans - there is NO virgin or unmanaged land anywhere at all so our invasive list has been steady at around 13 species for decades (I especially enjoy enraging US people by the deliberate planting of buckthorn - a good bird cover and hedge constituent). Also, it is fair to say, my little 5.5 acres can easily withstand the planting of risky species since I am marooned in the midst of agricultural Norfolk flatlands and watermeadows - the biggest environmental threat comes from herbicide run off and unmanaged ditches incubating Himalayan balsam Japanese saws - what can I say except wow. I was introduced to pullsaws years and years ago and have been a convert ever since, particularly given my puny upper body strength, it is much, much easier on the pull than on the push, to cut through tough woody growth...and when that growth is damp and fibrous, even more so. Another massive plus for hand saws is their repairability. I had a very salutary lesson this summer when an idiot friend decided to strim one of the rides in my absence...resulting in the destruction of $800 worth of Stihl brushcutter. The repairs cost me another $550!...and because it was a fuel mix issue, it was not even under warranty (teethgnashing). And nothing is more attractive to thieves than those orange Husky or Stihl power tools - I know of not a single arbourist who has not been robbed, persistently (including us)...yet nobody glances twice at my collection of pullsaws. True, the pole is the least of it and you could almost certainly fasten a decent blade to any lightweight length of pole (although I am seriously struggling with anything over 13feet). Oh yeah, reminds me - those ipomopsis I planted most certainly thrived - must have transplanted them quickly enough to develop taproots in situ...but I have already collected this seasons seed (weird looking stuff or what) from the allotment plantings and sown a whole heap with anomatheles lessoniana (pheasant grass). I also did some trades for the aristolochia fimbriata....