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To not want a lemon tree for Mothers day

33 replies

CybertownCinders · 08/05/2011 12:22

I feel a lemon

lemons

bah

sulk

...

OP posts:
Goblinchild · 08/05/2011 12:25

I'd love one.Smile

Next year ask for a bottle of gin.

Original poster
CybertownCinders · 08/05/2011 12:28
Smile

lobs a lemon

I have politely asked dh to buy
some flowers

after he has had his lunch out

on fecking mothers

sulk
Im not austrian
I know
but sulk

OP posts:
Hassled · 08/05/2011 12:31

I'd love a lemon tree. I had one - grown from a germinated seed in my slice of lemon in a gin and tonic I drank in Italy about 10 years ago. I managed to kill it off this winter and am very cross with myself.

I don't get the Austrian thing.

Original poster
CybertownCinders · 08/05/2011 12:37

Im in Austria

and Im sulking

because

ds has been up early
dh is at
work and my foot hurts

and I feel like a lemon

but Im sure I will

Learn to love my lemon tree

OP posts:
Goblinchild · 08/05/2011 12:39

The Austrian link is because it is Mothers' day there on the second Sunday in May. IE today.
OP has not been whinging about her present since the third of April. Grin

LinzerTorte · 08/05/2011 12:44

I got a chocolate biscuit. A heart-shaped, poshly wrapped one - but still, it was basically a chocolate biscuit. Oh, and three roses - but they were free from Baumax (at least DH told me, I suppose).

I wouldn't have been impressed with a lemon tree either, though - mainly because DH is obsessed with buying things for the garden so it would really have been a present to himself. And our garden is the size of a postage stamp and I was complaining to DH only yesterday that we have too many fruit trees. But your garden is much bigger so I'm sure you'll learn to love it. Grin

PoppaRob · 08/05/2011 12:49

I never use lemnons, but my 88 year old Mum's lemon tree died and she's been moaning about having to buy lemons ever since. It was Mothers' Day here in Oz today so I bought her a dwarf lemon tree that only grows to 1.5m high and about 1m wide. My son in law and I installed the tree for her after lunch so hopefully she'll have lemons in the next year or two.

valiumredhead · 08/05/2011 12:50

What would have been an acceptable present then? you spoiled woman! Wink

theoldtrout01876 · 08/05/2011 12:56

mothers day here too.I got a huge heather plant :o just need to figure out where to put it now and threaten a son till he digs a big hole :o

PiazzaDellaRotonda · 08/05/2011 12:57

What IS the secret of keeping a lemon tree alive in this country? Anyone know?

valiumredhead · 08/05/2011 12:59

Special liquid food from the garden centre piazza

MrsTerryPratchett · 08/05/2011 13:01

It is Mother's Day here as well and I am up at 5am with DD while DH sleeps.

Use a pot to keep the lemon and take inside in the cold weather. I would love a lemon tree.

KenDoddsDadsDog · 08/05/2011 13:05

I would love a lemon tree! But had I been in Austria I would have demanded sacher torte.

PiazzaDellaRotonda · 08/05/2011 13:09

Thanks Valium - I've never seen anything like that, but then again I've never looked. Can they be put outside in the summer? I've seen them growing in tubs in the most unlikely places in Italy but whenever I've put one out it's dead within the week!

MrsTerryPratchett · 08/05/2011 13:12

You can get hybrid lemons (with tangerine or something) which will grow in more Northerly climes. I can't remember what they're called though.

valiumredhead · 08/05/2011 13:14

I have an orange tree in my conservatory and it's been there for 3 years - it's huge now and atm has about 20 small oranges on it. The blossom when it flowers is the most gorgeous smell ever.

Just ask in at the garden centre, it's liquid food and you dilute it with water and water the plant every month with it.

I have to say mine does well being neglected, I let it go REALLY dry then think "Shit, I'd better water it!" and it comes back to life Grin

valiumredhead · 08/05/2011 13:15

Wouldn't have thought they would do well outside in case of frost.

trixymalixy · 08/05/2011 13:26

I would love a lemon tree. I have a kaffir lime tree which seems to survive my random watering. The leaves are lovely in thai curry.

FutureNannyOgg · 08/05/2011 13:28

When life gives you lemons....

Rosa · 08/05/2011 13:39

I got 2 pictures and a 'voucher' from the dds for a new phone !!! I said no flowers of plants as dd2 just eats / knocks them over. Its teh first year in 5 dh has remembered so I am not complaining at all.
As for a lemon tree mine was happy in a humid place and died when the temp changed .. Happy Mothers Day !

wotnochocs · 08/05/2011 13:54

I'd love a lemon tree.i did have one but killed it

proudfoot · 08/05/2011 14:09

I think a lemon tree is actually a nice present! :) Anyway it is the thought that counts...

I'm in Austria too btw, Grüße from Hietzing!

Original poster
CybertownCinders · 08/05/2011 14:37
Smile

I guess I see the garden as dhs thing

and ds has picked all the lemons
and made homemade lemonade for me

it has one left now

happy mothers day to
proudfoot....

OP posts:
TrillianAstra · 08/05/2011 14:46

I'd love a lemon tree.

Actually I'd love to live somewhere where a lemon tree could survive.

Or have a conservatory. :)

Why is a plant not as nice as flowers? It'll last longer.

diddl · 08/05/2011 14:49

I´d love a lemon tree.

Mother´s Day here also & I´ve a card & breakfast in bed-so think yourself lucky!