Lemon Trees

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Four proven lemon varieties, one page. Eureka and Lisbon are the classic backyard workhorses, Meyer is the sweeter, most cold tolerant choice, and compact Lemonicious suits pots and smaller courtyards. All are self pollinating, so a single tree will fruit on its own. Sizes run from affordable tubestock and multi buy packs through to established 500mm and 100L trees. Every tree is delivered Australia wide with our 30 day healthy plant guarantee. Choosing between Eureka, Lisbon, Meyer and Lemonicious Eureka is the lemon most Australians picture: sharply acidic fruit with very few seeds, carried in flushes for much of the year in warm climates. The tree reaches about 4m, and of the four here it is the least frost tolerant, so it is happiest along the coast and from Sydney north. Lisbon looks similar in the fruit bowl but the tree is tougher. It handles both frost and hot inland summers better than Eureka, carries its main crop through winter, and grows with real vigour to a similar size. It is the thorniest of the group, worth knowing if you are planting beside a path. Meyer is the pick for cooler gardens and pots. A natural cross between a lemon and a sweet orange, it gives rounder, thinner skinned fruit with a gentler acid that many cooks prefer, on a compact tree of 2m to 3m. It is the most cold tolerant lemon commonly grown in Australia, and tubestock starts at $22.95. Lemonicious is a modern compact selection that produces full sized, heavy cropping fruit over a long season on a tidy plant, which is why it is sold in packs of three, six and ten: it makes a genuinely productive low screen or a matched row of pots. Where lemon trees grow well in Australia In subtropical and warm temperate gardens, any of the four will thrive. In cool temperate areas, including Melbourne, Canberra, the Adelaide Hills and Tasmania, start with Meyer and give any young lemon a sheltered, north facing position; a brick wall that radiates warmth overnight makes a real difference. In the t