Have you been looking to buy a lemon tree for growing indoors? 

Exulting in the wonder, magic, and mystery of changing seasons, you live somewhere the temperature and humidity soar into the nineties during the summer and plunge into the Antarctic in winter.  Between Canadian Thanksgiving and Easter, to fend-off frostbite and abominable snow-persons, you may heat your home to those same summery temperatures, keeping hearth and home nice and toasty…and practically bone dry.  That custom heating and cooling unit you installed with your energy-star rebate money does a bang-up job of cooling and heating, and it de-humidifies like Zephyr his own self.  Only one problem:  By February, you and your skin have desiccated like old sponges. 

Create an indoor lemon or orange orchard.

Because you invest a great deal of money in heating your home, and because glorious winter sunlight still floods all your southern exposures, you really ought to consider putting all that energy to some good use: Growing lemons, limes, and oranges, for example.

For approximately what you will pay for Florida citrus this winter, you can buy your own containerized citrus trees.  Your online nurseryman can have your two- to three-foot trees safely in your mudroom by the weekend, and they can acclimate to your indoor weather in just a few days after that.

Of course, you will have to make a few minor adjustments to accommodate your new citrus trees.  When they have adapted to their new homes in your southern exposures, your trees will begin to generate some of their own humidity, making your indoor air both healthier and a lot more fragrant.  Until then, though, they will need a little extra humidity—about like a child with a cold.  Use your cool water vaporizer, and watch your new trees thrive.  In addition to requiring a little extra humidity, your fruit trees need regular root soaking, but you must exercise caution about over-watering them.  Thoroughly soak your roots every two or three days.  If you are really clever, you can install a gray water recovery system from your washing machine, delivering just enough water through a drip system at just the right intervals.

As you buy and grow your citrus trees you need not think of your indoor orchard as a farming experiment.  When your very curious friends inquire, say simply “I love citrus.”