Mar 29, 2007, 02:24
Taken the day before my recent flower photos (the ones using off-camera flash on a dark day) I was shooting bees on the valley lemon tree in my girlfriend's parent's backyard.
I'm told that the valley lemon is a cross between an orange and a lime tree. The fruit is green but turns yellow when fully ripe, and the flavor is like sweet lemon candy--not sour at all!
This hybrid is popular among growers in the Rio Grande Valley on the border between Texas and Mexico, which is where we got our own small tree last year.
Valley Lemons taste amazing with tequila shots.
The sweetness is a perfect complement to the liquor's flavor.
The thousands of blooms on the tree shown here correspond to the huge number of fruit it will produce this year.
I'll have to switch from vodka to tequila this summer so they don't go to waste.
I'm told that the valley lemon is a cross between an orange and a lime tree. The fruit is green but turns yellow when fully ripe, and the flavor is like sweet lemon candy--not sour at all!
This hybrid is popular among growers in the Rio Grande Valley on the border between Texas and Mexico, which is where we got our own small tree last year.
Valley Lemons taste amazing with tequila shots.
The sweetness is a perfect complement to the liquor's flavor.
The thousands of blooms on the tree shown here correspond to the huge number of fruit it will produce this year.
I'll have to switch from vodka to tequila this summer so they don't go to waste.