Home Gardening Tips

Orange tree looks great and smells fantastic. The orange tree generally fruits up to three or four times a year. This way you can have lovely tropics throughout the year in your home and garden both.

The bright colored sweet, tangy, refreshing fruits of an orange tree are packed with pure vitamin C. You perhaps cannot have a better choice than an orange tree for your garden and home.

You may think of growing a full-growth orange tree in your garden. Alternatively, you may also decide to have a mini-orange tree in your garden. This “orange-tree-bonsai” would be a great idea for indoor as well as outdoor garden plant.

The mini-oranges can be grown on the bonsai orange trees. Such types of oranges are known as the “calamondin orange” or the “Kumquat“. Normal sized oranges are too big and heavy for a bonsai orange tree. This variety of an orange tree is definitely a good choice as indoor plant. Such type of plants can easily tolerate a temperature range of around 44-53 degrees F. During a period from the month of March to the middle of October these orange trees can also be put as outside plants in your garden. Thus you can have double advantage with an orange tree.

You should be very careful while watering the orange tree. During summers watering must be regular and at fixed intervals. During winters watering would need different schedule but avoid the plant receiving too much humidity during winters.

Fertilization is an important aspect and you must remember that summers are not fit for this. When the plant has flowers fertilize them with a good quality fertilizer. You may use a basic release fertilizer like ‘Osmocote’.

A bonsai orange tree would be required to be repotted every two or three years. You must maintain a schedule of pruning after flowering and particularly in the months of September or October.

Generally your bonsai tree will give you bonsai-oranges in the months of August-September. You may also find a couple of other varieties giving fruits for two times a year at some plant nurseries.

Bonsai orange trees are among the best available choices for a gift that you can give to anybody. These beautiful plants can easily be ordered online with safer and faster delivery at the destination. In your home also the orange tree bonsai should be a must have plant.