I arrive at Agrumi Lenzi 🇮🇹 (part 1)

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Address: Via di Campolasso, 51017 Pescia PT, ITALY

[@doggiefamily908]

Absolutely amazing! And these trees are not even in big pots! They grow so well, what's their secret?

[@Christinandrearosamilia]

Limetta rosa is very good… and the big one… is a cedar ❤

[@lyonheart84]

Its interesting that they grow them all on raised frames. I'm not sure if that simply to make them easier to carry out maintenance on, or to ensure perfect drainage and better airflow

[@lyonheart84]

That ridiculously large 'grapefruit' was almost certainly a pomelo 😁

[@MoebiusUK]

I think you’re right

[@nagarsky]

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[@ahmadjamila5163]

Really nice place, and I met pietro he helped me to pick some very good saplings in March this year

[@MoebiusUK]

He’s a very cool guy … I’m glad to have visited and to have met Pietro and (Mauritzio) ?.. think that’s his name.

[@ahmadjamila5163]

Did you get any citrus plants from them? I'm thinking of going back to Italy again.

[@MoebiusUK]

@@ahmadjamila5163 Yes, I bought citrus from all the nurseries I visited. 😉

[@Christinandrearosamilia]

Please if you go back … go to spring… also… near there … there is the museum (garden) of citrus plants. Pure heaven. And if you do give a lift 😂

[@MoebiusUK]

I think I visited this museum (hesperidium) at 'Oscar Tintori'. I have the video on my channel. During this trip I visited 4 nurseries in Italy and then drove across France to Brittany, Like you say, pure heaven for the citrus enthusiast.

[@Christinandrearosamilia]

@@MoebiusUK yes just saw the video. My dream still need to go there. He’s the best!

[@Christinandrearosamilia]

@@MoebiusUK can I ask you… beside Oscar tintori e Lenzi, which are the other one? Don’t know them.

[@myexoticfoodplants6727]

Thanks for sharing. Fantastic looking citrus trees and the fragrance must be intoxicating. I would love to have them all 😀😀 but I am focused on those with a chance of growing in containers or in the ground in my Zone nine area of greater London. I will share

[@MoebiusUK]

I know what you mean about our climate zone, Mike. but I'm afraid we're going to get increasingly hot spring and summera so .... 🤷 as for winter, I'm going to be container gardening due to lack of garden space so plants will be indoors during the cold.

[@arifm2k]

Amazing nursey, i bought a few rare citrus from them before brexit. Excellent quality and much more reasonable prices. Even their soil mix is really good. If you are going back try find the ruby clementine, super rare mutation with deep red flesh. That bairon fingerlime could be byron sunrise, may need to confirm. If it is then its also a sought after variety with blood red pearls

[@MoebiusUK]

Thanks for the suggestions. I did go back and i'm kicking myself I didn't get the Byron, I had to make a judgment call because of the limited car space ... but after your comment I did pick up the Ruby Clementine though.

[@arifm2k]

@@MoebiusUK good choice on getting the ruby clem, looking forward to the video.

[@lyonheart84]

You don't just need a larger car, you need a larger garden 😂😂

[@PeterEntwistle]

Lol, I was thinking the same 😂😂

[@garycard1456]

I'll have to visit these places. They're better than Kew Gardens! How many plants is one allowed to bring back? I'll take a van, failing that I'll go by plane and ask the Captain if there's spare room in the undercarriage for the plants! 😂

[@PeterEntwistle]

@@garycard1456 legally none without all the required paperwork lol 😂😂.

[@svetlanavladimirova4556]

👍👍👍

[@PeterEntwistle]

Wow, how impressive! I’d be in there all day lol 😂

[@PeterEntwistle]

I’d want to get everything in there lol. Nice find with the New Zealand lemonade tree. I’d love one of those someday. I wonder what varieties of satsuma they have too?

[@MoebiusUK]

I ended up getting 2 New Zealand Lemon trees because they were tiny (barely just grafted) … I found a larger specimen but was told it was one of their mother plants.

[@PeterEntwistle]

@@MoebiusUK Yeah, makes sense, I guess they have to keep a few larger ones around to propagate from.

[@MoebiusUK]

@@PeterEntwistle When I asked the owner for NZ Lemonade he just smiled and shook his head … he said lots of people wanted it. I think it’s the fashionable variety now. I also wanted a ‘US199’ .. again I only managed to get one that had just been grafted. Not overly bothered as it meant more space in the car for larger plant specimens

[@formeggeotsop9219]

interessante George T.

[@lyonheart84]

It seems to me they grow all of the large specimens in clay pots. Does that sound correct ? Obviously the smaller plants for sale are in PLASTIC pots for easier handling and lighter for shipping

[@MoebiusUK]

I assumed they used terracota when I had seen videos, but they are plastic made to look like clay .... even standing right next to them I couldn't tell the difference without tapping them.

[@samMTL514]

What is their secret sauce for growing these citrus trees? Soil, temp, humidity, Italian sun?

[@MoebiusUK]

I think they just have a passion for growing citrus combined with generations of knowledge / experience in Italy ... but given the right conditions (mainly sunlight) their results can be replicated around the world.

[@garycard1456]

Better than Kew Gardens! 😂

[@MoebiusUK]

I really love being in there … the aroma is so strong and rummaging through the assortment of citrus is a lot of fun.

[@Christinandrearosamilia]

Almost like UK isn’t it?😅 I love that place

[@MoebiusUK]

It's wonderful. It was quite the drive from London but i'm so glad I made the visit/

[@Christinandrearosamilia]

@@MoebiusUK omg back in 2020 I did London-Lugano by car. So far. But worth it. Miss London. Lived there for years. I have also a lot of citrus plants.

[@Christinandrearosamilia]

@@MoebiusUK bought any plants?

[@MoebiusUK]

@@Christinandrearosamilia Ahhh Lugano, Switzerland. I'd like to visit sometime. I did get to pass through many alpine tunnels and see some spectacular scenery which was an experience for a first timer, london boy. I can't wait to return. I did fill my car up with plants. but as you probably know it's not easy getting them back into Britain because of Brexit. I needed to take the ferry to Ireland from Roscoff, France and enter the UK through Northern Ireland.

[@Christinandrearosamilia]

@@MoebiusUK omg that’s annoying. Sorry. Yes Brexit… don’t tell me about it. Can I ask you if you want to tell me, which plants or species did you buy? I have limetta Pursha, limetta patriarca, limone Ponzino Amalfitano (among my favourite), 2 kaffir lime, 3 regular lemons, 1Lipo, 1citrus lemon medica (one of my favourite), 1 yuzu, 1 finger lime. They are big. But it’s was anything as Switzerland it’s not EU so… had to go though small borders… but not as anything as your trip. Next one is gonna come in may … my favourite!!!! A plant of Cedro Pane or Cedro piretto. So good. You can have it in salads because it taste like lemon and it’s not sour and its huge like a cedar.

[@raregrowsNJ]

Im always curious about the soil they use, it looks like clay/garden soil? Specifically the plants at the start of the video

[@MoebiusUK]

Mee too .... I saw a lot of dry, poor drainage looking soil while I was there but the plants seemed healthy enough, maybe because they were indoors and drip irrigated. The plants I purchased were also in a heavy clay / garden topsoil type substrate ... some had added pumice. I immediately bare-rooted all the plants I bought as a heavy substrate is totally unsuitable for Citrus in rainy London.

[@raregrowsNJ]

@@MoebiusUK I had some chestnuts in clay in pots and they survived 2 years and one even flowered. I transplanted both to potting mix and eventually died of root issues. Makes no sense lol. I gotta try a citrus in some, maybe poncirus and graft something ontop for science

[@MoebiusUK]

​@@raregrowsNJ That's interesting. I think some plants prefer 'poor soils' though. Clay does help hold onto nutrients ... I believe it's called 'Cation Exchange Capacity' (CEC). Although I don't fully understand the scientific concept. When I bare-rooted and washed the roots off the citrus I bought in Italy I noticed clay sedement collected in the bottom of the bucket and of course the pumice floated to the top ... I threw away the clay junk and kept the pumice to reuse. I think that what works in some climate zones won't necessarily work in others ... and this is true of substrates ... I worry that clay whould suffocate roots by holding onto to much water. ... But this is hypothetical until I try it 'for science' like you suggest. I should try experimenting a bit as I rely on peat-based substrates a lot. The use of peat is not considered environmentally friendly and I think the UK and EU governments have scheduled for it to be banned for use in gardens.

[@iiTzHaroon]

Talk about a kid in a candy shop. Please sir may I have more 😂

[@MoebiusUK]

I well and truly stuffed by -face- car full of goodies 🤣