I just bought some South African Clementines

[Randomguy]

Pretty dang tasty!  The Spanish still grow the best, but these are good!

[Longjohn ★]

Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Clementine.

[Page Turner]

2 hours ago, Randomguy said:

Pretty dang tasty!  The Spanish still grow the best, but these are good!

...by far the best ones come from the tree in my front yard, sir. And I do not live in Spain, nor do I dance to the sultry music of the Flamenco. (OK maybe infrequently I dance a little bit to Flamenco.)

[Dottleshead ★]

3 hours ago, Randomguy said:

Pretty dang tasty!  The Spanish still grow the best, but these are good!

 

50 minutes ago, Page Turner said:

...by far the best ones come from the tree in my front yard, sir. And I do not live in Spain, nor do I dance to the sultry music of the Flamenco. (OK maybe infrequently I dance a little bit to Flamenco.)

He speaks the truth.  I fly down annually to pick them from his sidewalk.

[Airehead]

Clementines remind me of Christmas. 

[maddmaxx ★]

OK, but don't try to keep them separated from peaches.

 

 

 

Yes, I know I'm going to hell.

[MickinMD ★]

11 hours ago, Page Turner said:

...by far the best ones come from the tree in my front yard, sir. And I do not live in Spain, nor do I dance to the sultry music of the Flamenco. (OK maybe infrequently I dance a little bit to Flamenco.)

Believe it or not, I used to grow tangerines in Maryland.  It was a small, 3-4 foot high tree/bush that grew about 6-9 small tangerines in a big planter that I took inside when the weather got cold.  Tangerine trees have thorns, I got tired of scraping my leg on the thorns while vacuuming - I thought I should keep it near my living room's picture window, and eventually gave it away.

Next time, I might try figs.  In Maryland, the winter trick is to wrap the fig tree in a blanket, push it down to the ground in a mini-trench you dig so you can cover it with a foot of soil you got from the trench.  When you stand it up the next spring alongside a stick to keep it up, the trunk still gets nourished by the roots and it soon stands on its own.

[ChrisL]

11 hours ago, Page Turner said:

...by far the best ones come from the tree in my front yard, sir. And I do not live in Spain, nor do I dance to the sultry music of the Flamenco. (OK maybe infrequently I dance a little bit to Flamenco.)

Truth...  If you live in citrus country you get spoiled.  No store bought citrus is as as good as citrus that’s allowed to ripen on the tree.  

In a few months my dog walks will take a circuitous route as I hit up the neighborhood trees that hang over common areas & are loaded with fruit.

[Randomguy]

24 minutes ago, ChrisL said:

Truth...  If you live in citrus country you get spoiled.  No store bought citrus is as as good as citrus that’s allowed to ripen on the tree.  

In a few months my dog walks will take a circuitous route as I hit up the neighborhood trees that hang over common areas & are loaded with fruit.

My Aunt had a lemon tree when she owned a house in Sunnyvale, and it was really cool to make lemonade from something fresh off a tree.  I wasn't going through lemons at a rapid clip before I visited, so no real direct comparison there, but it was still awesome to just grab what you needed.