The Citrus

One of our favorite plants -- both outside in the summer and inside in the winter is the citrus -- the calamondin, the Meyer lemon, and the kumquat. They spend the summer outdoors and we are rewarded in winter with not only their fragrant scent when they bloom but also with fruit -- the small bitter calamondin oranges, the Meyer lemons and kumquats.

In the winter, they seem quite happy in the breakfast room. With the warm winter sun, they seem happy indoors.
The kumquat with it's fruits. The ripening fruit as well as some little green ones.

Our favorite way to use them is to slice them on salads. I've toyed with candying them but haven't done that -- as yet!
Whenever one looks out on a winter landscape, when you look past a citrus with ripening fruit, it makes those winter days seem less dreary and not quite so cold.

It's like bringing a bit of summer indoors!

It's Wednesday and time for Outdoor Wednesday (although my outdoors is really indoors!) -- please join Susan at A Southern Daydreamer to see what everyone else is doing outside this Wednesday!