Where in NC? I've been looking at the Durham HD and Lowe's and they're only stocking the most boring of generic greenery (boxwoods, argh) and neglected vegetable starts. Though I did pick up a neat-looking blueberry variety from Lowe's last week..

Also what are they asking for a 5gal?

The HD's in the piedmont area have them. I've seen them in Matthews, Charlotte and surrounding area HD's. The calamondin I got passing through Matthews. I saw them at the HD in North Myrtle Beach, SC this week too (went there for spring break). The varieties available vary from store to store. A worker told me the vender chooses which ones to put out at each store.

They are $44 a piece. I saw one called ponkan (I think...). Lots of nice looking satsumas, blood orange, Meyer lemons and thornless Mexican lime. A Tahitian something or nother .... finally some more choices around here.

What was the blueberry? I'm hoping to find perpetua- 2 crops a year. They had it at pike nursery but it was pricey.

Last year my HD all had small (expensive) citrus, probably cuttings. Only one location had the 5 gallon grafted in a few varieties. The only orange was Washington.

HD also has their Garden Club emailed coupons, but I have not received any yet this year.

Pike does an occasional 20% coupon and that takes their $60 citrus down to $48.

Pike's does have a nice selection. I don't recall what HD's blueberry cost, but I did see some there, didn't notice what variety they had.

I made a mistake about the Matthews HD, the one I found the calamondin at was just a couple miles down the road (it's more in the Charlotte area I believe, off Providence RD/485). The matthews only had the small ones in. (went to so many HD's lately they've kind of all blurred together),

Here's a pic of what they look like this year:

I'm playing down in SC today, so I may visit another HD after the gig down there and come home with something else....if there's not a restriction on doing that right now.... I'm not sure..,will check first.

Good prices for a 5 gallon. Harris Citrus Nursery charges $50.

hibiscus: it was "pink icing" - lovely leaf colors.

Small size and semi evergreen does sound interesting. I think the clerk at pike said the same about the fruit, tho - not spectacular. For baked goods, as opposed to fresh out of hand, perhaps that would be adequate...tempting. And all those citrus, more temptation!

What a nice selection Dave. Good luck citrus hunting and enjoy your gig :-)

It's a very striking plant. I walked past it several times and was drawn to it.

Thanks, Laura. No luck at the other HD today. They had not many fruit trees in yet. I guess they are just coming in at stores. They did have some nice looking rabbit-eye blueberries. I may have to try a couple of those this year.

Here is a Calamondin I picked up from there. There were only two Calamondin there, this one was shaped the best.

Checked out the HD between Durham and Chapel Hill yesterday. Didn't expect to find much and sure enough, I was right. Did pick up a nice windmill palm, though. Maybe later this spring they will have something. I bought my original meyer lemon at HD many years ago, and my neighbor has a calamondin that she bought there as well.

Our stores here just do not have such nice selections. Last year I saw some poor neglected ones in bright metal containers for $25 each. This year I just plan to add a calamondin. Although I would like to propagate one/two from cuttings - mainly because I want to make a bonsai out of it. Thanks for the inspiration.

It seems hit and miss as to which HD are getting citrus right now - I went to two HD's early this morning and neither had citrus. But they were unloading lots of spring plants shipments. Maybe in a few weeks other stores will get them in.

Last year I checked several HD and only the one store had grafted citrus. I didn't think the variety was great, but they did have kumquats, which I find surprising. Then I went to pike nursery and found more kumquats plus mandarinquat. Maybe this year I'll find limequats and lemonquats?

Still don't know why HD hasn't sent their usual email coupons, it's like they don't want me to buy plants or something.

I haven't been to pike nursery this spring yet, but last year they had some wonderful citrus. I got my mandarinquat there. I should have stopped in this morning, was not far away.

The citrus at HD this year are grown by Saxon becnel & sons, according to the label on mine. The ones I've seen in the stores are very healthy looking.

I was just looking at a limequat tonight for sale by hirts. I'm looking at their centennial kumquat right now on amazon for $25 plus shipping, maybe I'll go for it. I've been wanting one of those for some time!

Dave - you may want to do a quick compare to see if the shipping cost is cheaper going with Hirt's directly. I know there was a thread here in the past where it was bit cheaper going direct with Hirts vs Amazon. Am guessing you would have to go through putting it in the cart to see what they might charge.

HD in north Durham today had TONS of Meyers (looked like rooted cuttings) in small containers, as well as things marked "key lime" that did not look like key lime (no petioles). Some of the lemons had tags for olive trees on them. Ugh.

Thanks, Jenny. I have an amazon gift card balance to use up, so I would probably order off there. One thing I don't understand though is that the product code on hirts website for the centennial appears to me to be they same as the meiwa kumquat they offered last year, and the picture looks the same to me too (for meiwa). The product code for the centennial even says meiwa kumquat in its name, not centennial. Is meiwa and centennial the same tree?

redneckgirl, it looks like to me it has some life in it, I'd try to baby it back to health.

Dave, I separated and re-potted them. The smaller of the two didn't look to promising, almost no growing roots. But I have read that they root readily, so it may recover. Thinking of putting them in a clear bag for the humidity, just to see if it will help. I actually feel like I got a deal, four trees for a little over twenty bucks, tax and all. By the way, the largest calamondin has blooms, which I left on. It may abort them, poor thing, but I will let it decide.

Bunch of citrus showed up at Lowe's in Durham. Ponderosa, Eureka, Key Lime, Meyer, Persian Lime, Calamondin...but all Record Buck farms. Inexpensive, and looked healthy, but nothing I need.

Dave, the Centennial Kumquat is a Variegated sport of the Nagami Kumquat. The leaves and fruit are variegated. Here is a picture of my tree from Harris. I would send Hirts an email to clarify before ordering.