Citrus trees are small to medium-sized, frost tender, sub-tropical trees whose fragrant spring and summer flowers are followed by a range of different tangy fruits including oranges, lemons, limes and ...

If you enjoy decadent foliage, delicate flowers, and a bountiful harvest, then a key lime tree is a great choice. These plants will thrive outdoors in a consistently warm environment, but they can ...

Citrus trees should be put on a regular feeding schedule but should only get lime as needed. The trees can quickly deplete the nutrients from Florida’s sandy soil, but lime is only needed occasionally ...

Q. I have many tropical fruit trees that are surrounded by grass and close to competing trees. The fruit trees include avocado, Barbados cherry, carambola, lime, lemon, fig, banana and passion fruit.

Q: We have a lime tree that had fruit last year, but has not bloomed this spring. It is not dark green so I wonder if it needs something. — M.G., Houston A: Perhaps the tree suffered a few setbacks ...

There are limes that should be green when you pick them and limes that should have a yellowish hue when harvested and juicy. When limes are harvested too late, they are yellowish, pithy and no longer ...