Where to find citrus trees in Southern Ontario or anywhere in Canada?

Hey there,
I am trying to find a good seller of citrus trees in Southern Ontario or someone in Canada who ships. Any info or leads would be greatly appreciated!!!
thanks,
Chris

 

Have a look at this threads:

• http://www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/forums/showthread.php?t=17458

 

mintchris,

I just joined the UBC forum so I could tell you what I know.

I've been looking for a lemon tree for 2 year. I live in Hamilton. At one point I gave up and sucessfully started a seed from a lemon I bought from the grocery store.

Any way, Iast week I was at Terra nurseries on Hwy 6 between Hamilton and Freelton, and two weeks ago they received a 2 truck shipment from Florida of citrus. (about 5 area in the greenhouse with groupings of about 20 to 30 plants)
I bought a ponderosa lemon 3ft. for $39.99 and a Key lime and orange. (19.99 ea.)
The same size orange I have priced in the past at $65.00 at Harpers Nurseries in Ancaster)

They also had Meyers lemon.

They had a few Grapefruit and Lemon trees 6 to 7 ft tall at $125.00 (I think that was the price) some had sold signs on them.

I dont know if theyll ship to you... there phone number is (905) 689-1999 (Waterdown)

Hope thats helpful

Esti

 

The floral shop that I work in always has citrus trees, they are available from 4"-20" pots, also lots of varieties. You ahouls try one of the local ( mid-high end) floral shops to see if they can have any shipped in for you. Ours come from a grower in Toronto.

 

Is it a commercial grower? Which varieties do they produce? Do they have a website?

 

Surprising to me that Terra nurseries in Canada has received a shipment of citrus trees from the state of Florida. Due to the wide spread, and numerous diseases of citrus trees throughout all of Florida, the United States government has quarantined Florida, and does not allow any citrus trees to be shipped either into the sate, or any Florida citrus trees to leave the state. Florida is not allowed to ship citrus trees to any of the 50 states, even the cold states that have a zero citrus industry. - Millet (1,391-)

 

I just called Terra nurseries, and they confirmed that yes, they are from florida. They have been inspected and gone throught the quarantine process. I know the ministry of agriculture can be difficult at the boarder.

Mine are doing fine so far. Just a bit of young fruit drop on the orange which I assure is just from transportation and climate change

Esti

 

Esti, thank your for your reply, concerning Florida citrus trees in Canada. Interesting that for the purpose of protecting the U.S. citrus industry, the United States Department of Agricultural (USDA) will not allow a single Florida citrus tree to leave the state, under any situations what so ever, however, the USDA does not seem to worry about other countries. Although Canada does not have a citrus industry, neither does Colorado, Minnesota, Maine, and a host of other cold states. - Millet (1.389-)

 

I guess the logic behind it is that the movement of material across international boundaries (back into the U.S.) is much stricter than that across state lines. The quarantine does not seem to have affected the availability of citrus trees from Florida in my area.

 

The Key Lime that Esti mentioned at Terra for $19.99 is now on sale for $14.99. Sale ends Wednesday April 8, 2009.
The ad is at:
http://www.terragreenhouses.com/show.php?id=130&type=pdf
page 1, top left corner.

I was at the Milton store & all I saw were Key Limes on sale for $14.99, in either thorny or thornless varieties - no other citrus plants for $14.99. They are in very good condition. I picked one up.

 

Why is it that I always miss the sales....

My plants lemons and limes are doing great...

but.. my orange is dropping leaves.... I've seen others in other greenhouses that look the same.. one in welland..(the name is dutch, starts with a V....ermeer's garden centre). (all their other stock is beautiful). I'm thinking weather changes and cold drafts ... what do you think? It' strikes me as the same problem I have with ficcus ben. plants... the way the leaves drop.

 

Hello,

When I was a kid, I used to live in Ontario in the 1980's. I used to go out camping in the woods with the Boy Scouts and I remember seeing a wild variety of Lime trees sometimes growing in the woods.

The limes from this tree tasted much more bitter than those found in the grocery stores. I am calling it a lime because this citrus fruit was green like a lime. It most likely would be a good candidate to carry a graft from a branch of a different kind of citrus tree as this lime tree survives Ontario winters with no problem.

I don't believe that those Ontario limes are sold commercially because they are so bitter but you can probably get a small tree or gather some of the fruits from the woods.

Unfortunately, I don't remember where those woods were as this was over 28 years ago for me.

 

Maybe you're thinking of Poncirus trifoliata, Trifoliate Orange.

 

If you are ever in Toronto, there is a garden centre called Plant World they always have citrus, the price is reasonable and right now until the end of February they are 30% off. The selection will be better after March. I have 13 varieties and they have even more.

 

Hello all,, if any fellow Canadians need a hand finding citrus, we might be able to help.
we stock our greenhouse year round with all types of limes, lemons, grapefruits and other unique varieties.

some of our recent arrivals are:
Cara cara red navel.
Green finger lime
kaffir lime
Improved meyer lemon
Key limes

we are 10 min's from upper Canada mall. In Holland Landing, ontario.
we have a small add on kijiji

http://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-...FOR-SALE-OTHER-FRUIT-TREES-W0QQAdIdZ405308285


Simpson Eco Farms

 

HI Chris,
I just got a load of Citrus varieties in last week.
See them here on my web site.
http://www.tropic.ca/citrus/
I ship Canada wide.
Pictured the hardy Lemon Yuzu Inchandrin (Citrus junos)

Good Growing.
Ray M

 

You can also try Flora Exotica out of Montreal - he ships Canada wide and has a wide variety of exotic fruits available, not just citrus. Sometimes he can be a little hard to get a hold of but I have never been disappointed with the quality of his plants.
http://www.floraexotica.ca/Fruit-Citrus.htm

 

Hello,
I have a number of citrus varieties.
See them on my web site.
www.tropic.ca
I ship Canada wide till October.
Most are fruiting now!

or Contact Ray Mattei at PH: 604.943.6562.

 

I have small eureka lemon trees, clementine seedlings and im currently germinating meyer lemon seeds. Im in Montreal, i know its not next door but if you ever come by the area ill give them to you for free. Let me know!

Khaled

 

2016
New Citrus Varieties coming this year.
Email for a List:
raymattei2010@gmail.com

 

Hello Citrus Aficionados from Canada,

We are excited to report that we have launched our 2017 selection of 36 different citrus and 3 cold tolerant avocado through a pre-order process that is now open at: www.phoenixperennials.com. Scroll down and look for the link with the 'Owari' satsumas. Plants will be available for pick-up at our nursery in Richmond, BC in May. Or we can ship anywhere in Canada through Canada Post at that time. Please read our note to mail order customers in the pre-order info.

We'd also love if you could help us get the word out to other Canadian citrus fans.

Yours in Citrus, Gary, Phoenix Perennials

 

Hi everybody,
I'm a garden designer from Toronto, ON and I love citrus! They're amazing both indoors and out. The leaves and fruit are fragrant and everybody loves fresh picked fruit. I'm very pleased to announce my March citrus availability list. These trees are all available grafted to semi dwarf rootstock, making them perfect for container planting. I will be bringing in several other orders throughout the year so if you like the look of the selection now, definitely stay tuned! So without much further ado, here is my March availability list:

Seedless Lemon
Improved Meyer Lemon
New Ze Lemonaid Lemon
Vari Pink Eureka Lemon
Ponderosa Lemon

Kiefer Lime
Palestine sweet lime
Persian lime
Thornless Mexican lime

Autumn Gold Navel Orange
Atwood Navel Orange
Beck Navel Orange
Rush Tl Navel Orange
Midnight Seedless Valencia Orange

Boukhobza Blood Orange
Bream Tarocco Blood Orange
Moro Blood Orange
Sanguinelli Blood Orange
Vaniglia Sanguigno Acidless Blood Orange

Minneola Tangelo

Eustace limequat
Nagami Kumquat
Meiwa kumquat
Indio Mandarinquat

Frost Owari Mandarin
Honey Mandarin
Daisy Mandarin
Dancy Mandarin
Gold Nugget Mandarin
Okitsu Wase Mandarin
Miho Wase Mandarin
Page Mandarin
Tahoe gold
W Murcott Mandarin

Buddha's Hand

Flame Grapefruit
Oroblanco Grapefruit
Rio Red Grapefruit
Star Ruby Grapefruit

Chandler Pummelo
Valentine Pummelo

These trees will be available March 24th and are available for pre-order now if you would like to reserve one of the harder to find varieties. Please feel free to send me a message on the ubc forum or contact me through my kijiji adverts. Currently I offer shipping to all of Canada. Thanks for looking and be sure to contact me if there is something you would like to see added to the list.

David
Greenscape Gardens

 

Mail order available from Tropic of Canada: 2018 Citrus Pre-Order

 

Hello Citrus Lovers,

Phoenix Perennials is pleased to launch The Great Citrus Pre-Order 2019 with more than 50 different citrus available for pick-up at the nursery in May or shipping anywhere in Canada in May and June. For more info and to order see our pre-order section at Phoenix Perennials.

And here's the full list:

AUSTRALIAN FINGER LIME - Microcitrus australasica
BERGAMOT - Citrus bergamia
CITRON - Citrus medica 'Assads' (Kosher Etrog)
CITRON - Citrus medica 'Etrog'
CITRON - Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis 'Buddha's Hand'
GRAPEFRUIT - Citrus 'Cocktail'
GRAPEFRUIT - Citrus paradisi 'Oroblanco'
KUMQUAT - Fortunella japonica 'Centennial'
KUMQUAT - Fortunella japonica 'Marumi'
KUMQUAT - Fortunella japonica 'Meiwa'
KUMQUAT - Fortunella japonica 'Nagami'
KUMQUAT - Fortunella japonica 'Nordmann' Seedless 'Nagami'
KUMQUAT - Fortunella obovata 'Fukushu' (Changshou)
LEMON - Citrus limetta 'Pomona' Sweet Lemon
LEMON - Citrus limon 'Genoa'
LEMON - Citrus limon 'Limonero Fino'
LEMON - Citrus limon 'Lisbon'
LEMON - Citrus limon 'Santa Teresa' Feminello
LEMON - Citrus limon 'Variegated Pink' (Eureka)
LEMON - Citrus limon 'Villafranca'
LEMON - Citrus New Zealand 'Lemonade'
LEMON - Citrus x meyeri 'Improved Meyer'
LIME - Citrus aurantifolia 'Giant Key Lime'
LIME - Citrus aurantifolia 'Mexican Key Lime'
LIME - Citrus hystrix Kieffer/Makrut Thai Lime
LIME - Citrus latifolia 'Bearss Lime'
LEMON - Citrus latifolia 'Tahitian'
LIME - Citrus limettioides 'Palestinian Sweet Lime'
LIME - Citrus x limonia 'Rangpur Red Lime'
MANDARIN - Citrus 'China Satsuma S-6'
MANDARIN - Citrus reticulata 'Gold Nugget'
MANDARIN - Citrus reticulata 'Kishu'
MANDARIN - Citrus reticulata 'USDA 88-2' (Lee x Nova)
MANDARIN - Citrus reticulata 'Miho Wase'
MANDARIN - Citrus reticulata 'Pixie'
MANDARIN - Citrus reticulata 'W. Murcott Afourer'
MANDARIN - Citrus unshiu 'Owari'
MANDARINQUAT - xCitrofortunella 'Indio'
ORANGE - Citrus sinensis 'Cara Cara'
ORANGE - Citrus sinensis 'Fukumoto'
ORANGE - Citrus sinensis 'Valencia'
ORANGE - Citrus sinensis 'Washington'
BLOOD ORANGE - Citrus sinensis 'Moro'
BLOOD ORANGE - Citrus sinensis 'Tarocco'
BLOOD ORANGE - Citrus sinensis 'Vaniglia Sanguigno'
SOUR ORANGE - Citrus aurantium 'Bouquet de Fleurs'
SOUR ORANGE - Citrus aurantium 'Seville'
SOUR ORANGE - Citrus myrtifolia 'Chinotto'
ORANGEQUAT - Citrus 'Nippon'
TANGELO - Citrus x tangelo 'Wekiwa'
YUZU/SUDACHI - Citrus junos (Yuzu Ichandrin)
YUZU/SUDACHI - Citrus sudachi (Sudachi Ichandrin)

Enjoy!

Gary and the Phoenicians

 

Lovely selection Phoenicians! For those folks on Vancouver Island, I have started to produce citrus plants locally and have a number of varieties ready for sale. You can see the current items we have for sale here: Citrus Plants for Sale | Aprici ... you can see our local ads here: aprici on UsedVictoria.com ... for information on growing citrus on Vancouver Island I created these pages Growing Citrus on Vancouver Island | Aprici