Quarantine Story: I thought I had a lime tree

I love plants –I don't have the greenest of thumbs– and I love having a small garden with different plants (trees, flowers, things I'm not sure if they are flower, bushes or trees).

My childhood home had a perfectly sized garden, it wasn’t super big, it had the exact size two little girls and their three big dogs –a german shepherd, a labrador, and a golden retriever –needed to play in and have lots of colourful plants.

We had roses of many colours, an avocado tree (that did give avocados), tulips, alcatraz flowers, some cacti here and there, a couple of bougainvilleas, a tree someone gave me when I was 6, and a couple of ficus (fig trees?).

When we moved to our new house, we brought some of our plants with us –at least the ones that were already in a pot– and Dad and I had a mission, we wanted more plants to get all the colour we had left behind.

We've been trying for years to get roses but somehow they keep dying. That‘s a mystery we are still trying to solve.

We also love fruit trees, my Oma has the biggest lime tree I‘ve ever seen in her garden, and it gives limes all year round. We’ve tried to have one in my garden but for some reason it didn’t like it there. After many, many tries, we finally saw the lil plant grow. We were super excited to finally have limes just like my grandma! One day we saw it had like 6 limes (or at least we thought they were limes), I practically ran to get them, already tasting the delicious lemonade I was going to make.

So I grab the limes form the tree, I go to the kitchen and BOOM.

I cut the first lime and... it turned out to be an orange! How or when we ended up with an orange tree instead of a lime tree still baffles us. Plus, it only gave oranges that one time. It’s been two years since the 6 mysterious orange-limes appeared and we haven’t had anymore.

At the end I had a nice, freshly pressed, orange juice.

As you can clearly see I am a plan enthusiast with little plant knowledge or abilities hahahaha

Do leave your recommendations –if you have any– in the comments! Or you can tell me if you’d had a plant mixture like mine.

I’m looking forward to your stories and recommendations!

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