Lemon trees are a great tree to grow for home cooks and citrus lovers, but there's one significant downside that you should ...

Q: We have a tall, full and thorny 7-year-old lemon tree. Should it have thorns? Four years ago it had 8-10 lemons on one main lower branch. Every year since, it bears less fruit on that branch ...

A question for Dan Gill: I just planted a 3-foot Meyer lemon tree. How do I keep it from growing thorns? Any other tips would be appreciated. -- Pam Barron Answer: All of the citrus trees we grow ...

A: Thorns on citrus trees develop at the nodes, often sprouting on new grafts and fruiting wood. Some citrus trees with thorns outgrow them as the tree matures.

Lemon tree thorns make rose thorns look and feel like Q-tips. So slightly bloodied but triumphant I returned to the kitchen with my harvest ready to make curd if not for the masses at least for ...

My citrus tree has thorns. Will it bear fruit? Dan Gill's mailbag Dan Gill, The Times-Picayune garden columnist Sep 25, 2016 1 min to read ...

This type of tree is recognizable by the long thorns on its stems and deciduous trifoliate leaves. The fruit is green, ripening to yellow with a peach like fuzz covering it.

“Why do plants have thorns?” is an easy question. “Where do thorns come from?” is more complicated — but Yale scientists have found an answer.

Kevin Connolly's lemon tree has pride of place on his balcony In a region where most land is desert and droughts commonplace, the issue of how water is used and shared is hugely important. Even ...