Lakeland Limequat Landscaper Favorite The fruit themselves are small

The fruit themselves are small and oval

Set the shrub in part shade to shade

dry bank where the blue-green foliage and long summer gold can carry the planting

shrugging off drought once settled

packed up to a foot long

Lakeland Limequat Landscaper Favorite The fruit themselves are smallThe Lakeland limequat is a citrus lover's answer to cold: a compact, productive hybrid that pairs the hardiness of the kumquat with the bright, tropical punch of Key lime. One of three limequats bred by W. T. Swingle of the U. S. Department of Agriculture in Florida in 1909 and named for the town of Lakeland, this cross (Citrus x floridana) joins the West Indian, or Key, lime with the round Marumi kumquat (Fortunella japonica). The result carries