Of Lemons and Limes

Cindy has been nursing her Meyers Lemon tree along for about a year now. It's never looked particularly robust; the leaves have had a tinge of yellow, but the fruit stubbornly refused to change from green to yellow.

So we repotted it a couple of months ago, hoping that would do the trick. We also repotted the lime and the dwarf orange tree at the same time. Actually, we didn't change the pots, we simply took them out of the pots, drilled more holes in the bottoms of the plastic pots they were in and put them back to improve the drainage in the pots.

But still no lemons. Lots of green fruit, but nothing that looked like a Meyers lemon. Hmmm. Cindy, recalling her friend Lorraine's question, "why don't you pick those limes?" checked the blossoms. Pink blossoms. Lime blossoms. And, of course, the blossoms on the presumed lime tree are white: lemon blossoms?

So the question is: did we mix them up when we repotted them? Did the nursery mix up the labels?

Another question: what kind of lime is this? It has seeds, when we were expecting seedless limes, or at least fewer seeds.

At least now we've got plenty of limes. Something tells me it's margarita time....