We've planted a lime tree up in Rosendal near the bee hives. This is because lime trees provide a substantial source of food for bees. The flowers also smell wonderful and can be used to make a tisane called tilleul. Lime trees can live for hundreds of years and grow up to 40m tall (but maybe not quite so big up here in the Nordics). The young leaves and the buds are edible but we're hoping the deer and elk don't take a liking to them. Our specimen is planted in a well-drained sandy soil (on a moraine ridge) racing south-east.
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