Does anywhere sell lime trees?

[Noodles]

The OH kindly bought me a greenhouse recently He is now offering to fund the purchase of a heater for it on the condition I grow a lime tree in there I've tried explaining it is too cold here etc but he insists we give it a go. I'm having a slight problem though as I can't find them anywhere. There are tons of lemon trees about but no limes. Does anyone have any idea where I can get one?

Thanks

[Jillyreeves]

Ebay

Exotic CITRUS Lime Aurantifolia Fruit Tree 40cm+ on eBay, also Tropicals, Plants Seeds Bulbs, Garden Plants, Home Garden (end time 11-Apr-09 11:08:15 BST)

Or Dobies

http://www.dobies.co.uk/Shop/Fruit+T...iti+480655.htm

[coomber]

The Citrus centre, near Brighton I think

[snohare]

Forgive my ignorance here, but are we talking about tilia vulgaris here ? Because they do not normally set seed in this country, and I don't think a mature one would fit in a greenhouse !

[Rossa]

You could have a look at this one:

Send Tahiti Lime as a plant gift for delivery in the UK

[starloc]

Myself, i would get one from global orange groves, they have a website, they have no prices there but they have a price list, they have allsorts of citrus and they have more established trees than most, the citrus center is good as well, but size for price etc i would look at the price at both, they are both quite close to each other

Alot from ebay are smaller and younger, for not much less (often more) money

On ebay, You can get ones listed as farmers whip trees, they are fine , but young with no real branches formed, they take a few years, some of the others are far smaller, more like a stick, some like a mini bush, many of the suppliers over water them and they die a few months after buying

From the 2 suppliers above , you can get one decently branched, upto about 4 or 5 foot tall mini standard for similar price, a tree that will hold a decent amount of fruit and need less care as its healthy when you get it.

for a normal lime make sure you get a bearrs lime or a tahiti lime , both are the same ,

theres all sorts of others such as persian lime and key lime, most of the others are nasty !

[frias]

I got my lime tree about 5 years ago from B&Q. It's got about 50 ripe limes on at the moment. I've also seen them in Homebase. It's in a large pot and lives outside all summer and in the greenhouse in the winter.

[Alison]

Mine came from Crocus on line when they had a sale on last year. It came as a nice sized little plant with flowers on at the time. I potted it on into about a 12" pot and it sat out on the patio all last summer. Brought it into the conservatory over winter - almost killed it with neglect and not watering. After a couple of good soaks and a feed, it's now looking good and flowering again so fingers crossed for a few more limes this summer - note that they were very small fruits but had a good intense flavour. Also have a lemon tree of a similar size, have tried over wintering in the greenhouse before but as I try not to heat it (I think it's a bit wasteful for only a few plants, both financially and environmentally) it suffered quite badly. Is now looking much better and is flowering next to the lime tree. They'll both go back outside for the summer but not until it warms up a bit.

[Noodles]

Thanks everyone. I'll ask at my local B&Q and Homebase (they didn't have any that I could see last time I went in but a big branch might stock them) and if I have no joy with them I'll have a look at the websites people recommended. I'll let you know how I get on.

Cheers

[Snadger]

Forgive my ignorance here, but are we talking about tilia vulgaris here ? Because they do not normally set seed in this country, and I don't think a mature one would fit in a greenhouse !

Wrong lime snohare!

This one methinks:-

Key lime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[purplekat]

Most garden centres seem to stock them but probably not quite yet, I know ours only has lemons at the moment