Asrar: Your question does not have an easy answer. First, MOST citrus do grow 'true' from seed. By true, I mean they are essentially 'clones' of the parent plant. Most lemons do, grapefruits, oranges, mandarins do. But some DO NOT...such as Meyer lemon, pummelos, Minneola tangelo, Temple oranges, Clementine mandarins, and a few others. Don't quote me on which ones. You can do a search in this forum and find out. Malcolm Manners gave a list here once. Second point: Seedlings of many citrus have a very long juvenile period -- for example grapefruits require up to 10 to 14 years before they eventually put out the 'mature' wood that is capable of blooming and bearing fruit. By this time plants must get quite large (maybe over 14 feet high). Key limes, calamondins, and perhaps kumquats take much less time - perhaps 3 to 5 years from seed. Of course all this depends also on the growing conditions. Optimally, in the ground in Florida with great year-round weather - they take fewer years to bear. In a pot in the cold Northern US, they can take many more years - or maybe never. Also, many oranges and lemons for example are extremely thorny from seed. I mean we're talking 3-inch or longer thorns! Only the older mature growth tends to have shorter thorns. Because of this 'juvenility' problem (as well as root disease issues), many citrus (scions from mature wood) are grafted onto a hardy rootstock. This imparts not only a bit of hardiness but also disease resistance to the scion, and assures that you will get fruit in just a few years (vs the many, many years from seed). It also assures that the exact variety will be propagated in the cases where that particular variety won't grow true from seed. I'm hoping this helps you understand why it's not a simple answer to your question. This post was edited by dave_in_nova on Wed, Jun 25, 14 at 9:31

I guess I am very late to this thread. I will not presuppose what the value of her show is to others, but I can communicate what I value. I do NOT watch Garden Answer to learn about gardening, per se. Laura is a highly commercial animal, and all of the products she uses are transparent product promotions. I don't know how much she understands gardening outside of the framework her sponsors feed her. She probably understands a huge amount, but I always feel she is reading from a commercial script. It is very clear that Proven Winners is her main product sponsor, and I do see some value in having her catalog their latest products. That said, the main value of her show to me is landscape design. She has a pretty modest property that she has turned into an oasis of small gardens with semi-formal design. She uses a lot of statues and formalisms throughout that really elevate the garden. I guess her co-producer/husband is a landscape designer, and maybe these are his designs? That really does not matter to me, because the main value for me is in seeing how they use space, and just as important seeing how their designs evolve over time. That helps me to shape my own use of my small space. Understood in this way, her channel is a kind of landscape design aspirational channel. It is a place everyone goes to dream about a garden they would like to have but probably will never get. Here is a recent overview video she did showing how their property grew from just under two acres to over seven acres in less than 10 years, and how they created 25+ named garden areas within this space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlJpdCIKvHs Considering that both she and her husband love gardening, and that they must be getting many/most of their plants and garden supplies for free and make considerable money on gardening videos in this space, it is a kind of dream job for someone who loves gardening.

Answer to question 1) You can paint them white or you can match the stain and get veneer of the wood of your stairs. them glue down and can be stained and sealed with polyurethane. It depends on what you like. i did the later but its all preference. you can also get riser fronts in oak (if that's your wood and you want something a little thicker) or have them ghost/faux coated to match on the side that is white. Answer to question 2) Technically you can do anything but different wood colors in bedrooms looks disjointed/not cohesive. If you want wood in the upstairs to be different than the downstairs you can, but that usually starts at the stairs and goes into the rooms. as you just did the rooms, I'm assuming you don't want to so that. Also if the house is smaller, keeping the same wood going the same direction helps the space look larger. Instead consider a good area rug if you want to bring in a dark floor color.

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