Does anyone have a small mailable rooted 'Lemon Verbena' ?
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Comments (5)I saw this on Jene's Tropicals website and it sounds awfully similar to the description of the Ujukitsu Lemon. The picture also looks very much the same. Maybe same fruit by a different name? Citrus: Lemons Sanbokan Lemon - GRAFTED Citrus sulcata Sanbokan or sweet lemon is sometimes called the Sanbokan Grapefruit because of its large sized fruits and leaves. Fruits have a rough outer texture with a deep lemon color. It can be used as a lemon or lime. The taste is that of lemon but sweet instead of sour. Sanbokan grows to 10 - 15 feet within just a few years. Container growing this small tree is excellent on a patio that receives full sun. It can also be planted in the ground, reaching its mature height within 8 years, but will live if treated properly for 25 - 50 years. If grown in containers, it can easily handle a light freeze, with no damage, even when fruits are present. Its native origin is unknown, but Sanbokan is commonly grown as a dooryard and patio fruit tree in southern Japan...See MoreCan you root Variegated Lemon cuttings?
Comments (4)If it was me I would wait till next Spring. Or better yet just buy a couple of small budded trees. But for the best chance of success you need: 1. a misting system over the top (you have to keep the leaves from drying out until a root system is developed for water uptake). 2. a bottom heat source for the soil (use a thermometer and try to keep the soil temp between 70 and 80 dgrees) I would use in-between wood (not real new but not old hardened-off branches either). Rooting hormone never hurts. Yes good draining soil but don't let it dry out....See MoreDoes anyone have a favorite catalog/website for perennials?
Comments (18)Laurie, I mostly get the lemon or rose scented geraniums as they are two of my favorite fragrances. For me in zone 7/8 they are treated as annuals. I have yet to be able to winter one over in my garden no matter how much I protect them. I sometimes do pot them up and bring them inside for the winter. I hope to do that with the ones in my garden now. I will have to trim the root ball and entire plant because they have gotten huge. My favorites are; Attar of Rose, Lemon Crispum, Rober's Lemon Rose and Nutmeg. The flowers are usually small but pretty. The main reason most people grow them is for the fragrant leaves. You can put them into tea and other drinks, I like to add them to sugar to make a flavored sugar to roll cookies in before baking and sometime put the cleaned leaves into the bottom of the cake pan before pouring in the batter. Sort of like an upside down cake. I am adding a link here to a nursery that stocks quite an assortment. Hope this is helpful. Kat Here is a link that might be useful: Scented Geraniums...See Morelemon verbena cuttings
Comments (5)If you try to propagate by layering, it's best to scar the outside bark a little first on the underside, especially if the stem is woody. I've never tried it with lemon verbena. And if you had a rock on top of you, I wonder how well you'd grow? No, hold the branch down with a piece of bent wire inserted into the soil just so the scarred piece touches the soil. Best to try this with something small like thyme, or something softer like geranium, until you've been shown how deep to do the scarring on woodier plants. And no, I don't have 'great dirt'. Because I grow only herbs, it's quite poor soil, really. Stick the cuttings into a pot if you want, or into the ground if you want. It won't matter. It helps to cut off the top section of leaves, and to cut the remaining leaves in half (to reduce transpiration), and bury the cutting just deep enough to cover the nodes of the bottom leaves which you removed. Water the cuttings in well. Let me try that again. Take your cutting. Chop off its head. Remove the bottom couple of pairs of leaves. With secateurs or scissors roughly parallel to the stem, cut the tips off the remaining leaves. Then plant the cutting. If you want to get fancy and have money to burn, buy some special 'propagating mix' potting soil....See Moresweetbrook
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