When we bought our house we inherited a lemon tree with an orange branch grafted onto it. It is very strange, and many people do not believe such a thing is possible 🙂 It is a magnificent tree, providing us with nearly a year round supply of lemons and Seville oranges. Well, we think they are Seville, they are quite tart but very nice added to juices. They are full of pips though! The leaves and blossom are quite different too; the orange blossom smells glorious when it is out. The ones I picked today for this picture found the lemon leaves quite pale and yellow in comparison to the orange leaves. Having arranged them nicely to sketch and paint, I found the leaves seem to move on their own! Most strange…..Watercolour and ink.
Our tree, just outside the back door.
Spanish scribbles 
You seem to be getting very fruity of late, Wendy. Must have something to do with St. Valentine´s and the lovely spring weather that has finally broke through in Andalucia.
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Love this. X
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Thanks, Marion x
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How wonderful to have a trees like that!
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Yes, we are quite pleased with it! 🙂
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you have a steady hand… lovely 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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Very cool – and sweet. I love that you draw and paint your home.
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I love it when I don’t have to go far and have home comforts whilst painting! 🙂
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What a wonderful tree:) Your drawing is beautiful 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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Beautiful painting. It’s odd to see this, a friend just gave me similar orange and yellow citrus from his grafted tree in Northern California.
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Is his tree a lemon with an orange graft or the other way round do you know? I wondered if it only worked with the lemon as the base tree.
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As I understand the story, the base is one type of lemon tree and the variety added was also a lemon, but different from the first. The fruit of the second looks like an orange, but I am told is not. All kind of sci-fi to me.
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Oh how lovely, and what a pretty tree. A friend in the village has a lemon tree and I made a very special dessert yesterday with some of the lemons from it. I’d give the recipe to you but sadly it’s not vegan 😦
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Thanks, Lottie. Enjoy your dessert. 🙂
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Love your artwork and photo. I grew up in a house in the state of Oregon in the US and we had a tree that were three cherry trees grafted together, bing, pie and black cherry. Thank you for sharing because it brought back good memories. -Max-
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Thank you, Max. It is interesting how trees can be grafted together!
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Beautiful! Such vibrant colors on that tree:). I recently stayed at a friend’s house in California and the lemon and orange trees were a delight. Fresh-squeezed juice . . . yum.
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Yes, fresh squeezed is the best! 🙂
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The oranges look so real in your painting Wendy. Well done ! xox ❤
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Cheers, Ralph 🙂
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Hi Wendy,
The realism in your painting is astounding. The other pic reminds me of the citrus trees I had in the backyard in Florida. The convenience of them was so wonderful ! Looks like Spain is warmer than we have here. It’s only 4 F here with a 30kt wind. Stay warm 🙂
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Thank you! And you stay warm too 🙂
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What a beautiful painting. You captured the colours and the light perfectly!
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Thank you!
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How lovely to have fruits trees in the garden! And your sketch looks fresh as real one❤️
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Yes, we are lucky. Thank you x
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Slightly bizarre! But fortunate too. Two for the price of one 🙂
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Beautiful painting!!
In my family since few generations we use this method of refinement for trees and bushes 🙂 For some apples you need to use other (than original plant) pad to be able to grow healthy fruits in future. It’s very interesting process 🙂
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