Kaffir Lime Citrus hystrix at YouGarden

It’s Spring time! You can find Kaffir Lime Citrus hystrix on our partner’s website YouGarden to embellish your garden. You will find it in the category Fruit & Veg of Garden Orchid and you will be redirected to YouGarden if you add it to your cart.

Kaffir Lime Citrus hystrix on category Fruit & Veg

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The Kaffir or Thai lime, Citrus hystrix, is one of the main cooking ingredients in Asian dishes, and makes an attractive plant with its fragrant, glossy green leaves and powerfully perfumed blooms. Everything about this stunning citrus bush is quite distinctive. The leaves look like two leaves joined together, with one growing from the tip of the other. Just wait until you taste the difference between shop-bought and your own home-grown leaves – you will never go back to shop-bought! Picking the leaves every few weeks may help encourage growth and crushing the leaves will release the fragrant oils and an intense citrus aroma. The leaves can be used fresh off the tree, or dried or even frozen to retain their intensity. Naturally compact, the Kaffir lime tree is a little smaller than other citrus plants, reaching just 150cm (5ft) tall with a bushier top, but is easily kept as a small plant for continual harvesting of leaves. Mature plants may also produce fruits, which are little knobbly powerhouses of flavour as the Kaffir lime peel is loaded with fragrant citrus oil, which gives a pleasant tingle when eaten. Kaffir limes are easy to grow, just needing a slightly higher winter temperature than other citrus, ideally above 12C (54F). During the summer, plants benefit from spending time outside in a well-draining container on your patio, decking or balcony, and then brought back under cover before the first frosts of winter. Alternatively, grow the Kaffir lime in a well-lit conservatory, a bright room or a heated greenhouse. A strong, bushy plant is supplied in a 9cm pot. It flowers from May to August, but both blooms and fruit (when produced) can be on the tree at any time of the year.

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We firmly believe that Gardening is for Everyone! That’s right, you do not even need a garden to get growing. Many of our plants can be grown on balconies, small patios and decking, so you can catch the growing bug, and grow your own freshest fruit and vegetables too.We speak in plain English. Sometimes gardening can be a confusing maze of latin names and strange words and can be confusing or off-putting – we simplify all and remove all the jargon, and give you down to earth advice on what to grow – and how!We will show you how to get success from our products through our videos and care instructions. We have only chosen plants that are easy to grow and will give successful results with a minimum of experience. From the thousands of plants available, we have picked those that really work and perform. We have done the sifting and choosing for you, to bring you the best.We all have gardens of our own, and have grown many of the plants we sell, and can provide simple, easy to do, hints and tips for success. So confident are we our plants will perform, we back it up with our unique Lifetime Guarantee on all hardy plants.

So, even if you do not have a garden, or have never gardened before – we can help you get started on the road to delicious fresh fruit and veg, and gorgeous flower displays.