Grew a lemon!
Despite the roof coming off the room it lives in and spending a couple of weeks on its side in the wind rain and wreckage, then months shoved into a corner by a window while all the building work was done, when the roof went back on, this little tree managed flowers, in July:
and then lots of tiny fruits, in August:
Which back in November were still very green but a little larger:
And finally, though many of the fruits fell off, there were a few left... and now they really look like lemons! Today's photo:
I don't know what I'm going to do with them, but I am very pleased they exist. The pot has Corsican mint, which is a tiny delicate beautifully-scented mint, planted as a pot covering, and that too has made it through the hard times and is now florishing. I like running my hands over it and smelling the gorgeously minty scent. The flowers had a most wonderful scent, too.
I am hoping that maybe next spring, the tiny orange tree will manage some flowers too. It had a harder time with the building work and afterwards it seemed to have a bit of a nervous breakdown, failed to make any new leaves, really, and then got a terrible outbreak of scale insect.
So fingers crossed it will be happier in 2023. No photos of that because it's not really fair to photograph it while it's feeling so sad.