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The Night Before the Freeze, and the Morning After: Caring for Cold-Hardy Citrus Through a Hard Winter
How-To · Cold-Hardy Citrus · Southeast. The October checklist, the freeze-night plan, and what to do on the morning after, when every leaf on the tree has gone the color...
A Field Guide to Trifoliate Orange and Its Hybrids: Citranges, Citrumelos and Citrangequats
Field Guide · Trifoliate Orange and the Hybrids · Southeast. A thorny, deciduous, bitter little tree from northern China is the reason citrus grows north of Florida at all. Here...
A Field Guide to Cold-Hardy Citrus
Field Guide · Cold-Hardy Citrus · Zones 7–9 — A practical guide to choosing, siting, and keeping citrus alive north of the citrus belt: the hardiness ladder, the three families...
Yuzu Ichandrin: the cold-hardy citrus that grows where lemons can't
From the Nursery · Cold-Hardy Citrus Yuzu Ichandrin: the cold-hardy citrus that grows where lemons can't A mountain fruit from the high-elevation citrus regions of China and Japan —...
Sunquat: The Forgotten Hybrid with a Future
A Citrus That Slips Between Categories There is a citrus you can bite into whole, peel and all, with none of the puckering violence of a lemon and none of...
A Tang of Tenacity: The History of Cold-Hardy Citrus Varieties
The development of cold-hardy citrus didn’t begin in a backyard orchard—it began in the laboratories and trial fields of early 20th-century horticulturalists. These early scientists, often working in southern universities...
The Rare-Hearted Gardener: Community Stewardship
In every true garden, whether broad as a plantation field or bound within the fencing of a humble town plot, there exists the potential for legacy. Not merely the legacy...
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