Indoor heating lowers humidity levels and causes dry air. In the winter, using a cool-mist humidifier near your citrus tree can help prevent leaves and flowers from dropping off too soon. Or if your ...

Enjoy the refreshing flavor of limes any time by growing a lime tree indoors. Lime trees (Citrus aurantiifolia) are believed to be native to Southeast Asia, but these plants can grow indoors in any ...

Imagine all the money you can save by growing your own citrus trees. Take orange juice, for instance. It’s not cheap, especially organic and the way most households go through juice, the costs can ...

Discover 10 citrus trees that grow beautifully in containers Perfect for patios, balconies, or indoor gardens, these trees ...

Winter still has its grip on us but it's always summer inside when you grow citrus trees. Dwarf citrus trees take up little space but they produce full-size fruit. My dwarf Meyer lemon and dwarf ...

At the risk of sounding biased, I would like to suggest that citrus trees are the ideal garden plants. With their shining evergreen leaves and fragrant flowers, citrus trees make excellent garden ...

Citrus trees are among the most widely planted backyard fruit trees in south Louisiana. As citrus fruit begin to ripen, we get questions about harvesting and storage. While citrus trees are relatively ...

To protect a single smaller tree, construct a simple frame and encase the tree with one or two layers of translucent plastic. In southeast Louisiana, such an extreme practice would be needed only on a ...

I want to plant some type of perennial under my new citrus tree. Is there a rule-of-thumb about how close to the trunk is safe to plant for the health of the tree? This might be an attractive and very ...

On your citrus tree late last summer, did you notice little gray or black meandering trails on the young leaves? And a bit later, realize that many of those same leaves were rolled into bumpy ...

Citrus trees weren’t introduced in California until the 1800s, but they didn’t take long to grow into the hearts of farmers and backyard gardeners. Sierra Higgins and Molly Wendt, both Contra Costa ...