Lemon tree very pretty
When I was in high school, my flute teacher had a lemon tree, in New Jersey. She had grown hers from seed, and it flourished. She carried it inside in the winter. I love the way the leaves of lemon trees smell.

Our trip to Europe a few years ago intensified my desire for my own lemon tree. We visited a little bed and breakfast on the island of Capri, called Hotel Mulino. We could smell the lemon scent from our room, and there was a little lemon orchard with the trees laden with lemons. We stopped at Versailles, where they had an orangerie (though it was called an orangerie they grew all sorts of citrus)- in order to deal with the climate in France, the trees were planted in sterling silver planters and wheeled outside each morning by some poor folks.

I had not acquired a lemon tree- as I have no ground to plant it in. But I finally decided to go the route of having a tree in a pot. When I was in Berkeley CA last year it was lemon season. I got a bag full of lemon from a (relatively famous) UC Berkeley professor who hosted dinner one night (in retrospect-- it was a pretty weird request). But, since they irradiate so much produce here, may of the seeds from fruits you buy in the store are not ferile. But I lost patience growing my tree from seed.

I ended up going to Home Depot last spring and buying a Meyer lemon tree. They are designed to stay relatively small, have sweeter lemons, and are happy growing in a pot. So the news is that my lemon tree recently bloomed! Now there are half a dozen little lemons which have started growing. I am not amazingly hopeful because I don't really have enough light to offer my little tree. We only have north facing windows and porch. I am hoping when it is a little warmer to convince a neighbor with a south facing porch to foster it for a few weeks, to give the lemons a fighting chance.