This double graft provides you with the Meyer Lemon and the Tahitina Lime. The Meyer Lemon is a compact very prolific tree, flowering and fruiting all year-round. It produces sweet scented, creamy-white flowers with a purple base followed by a rounder, softer, deep yellow thin-skinned fruit with a slight orange tint when ripe. The tree’s medium-sized fruit, attractive evergreen leaves and basic care, it’s one of the most cold tolerant citrus trees, makes it ideal for the backyard gardener. The lemon’s sweeter and less acidic taste makes it a favourite for juicing, cooking hot or cold dishes, in drinks or as a garnish.

The Tahitian Lime is a popular small spreading, evergreen tree with glossy leaves, some thorns, and fragrant creamy-white blossoms followed by medium sized, round green fruit with a thin skin and a juicy, almost seedless acidic flesh. The limes are ready to pick in winter before the fruit turns yellow. Use as a garnish in cocktails, for juicing, desserts or in Asian dishes.

Your splitzer will grow in excess of two metres, so it is advisable to keep it pruned to two metres or under to keep the tree compact and easier to harvest fruit.

• Protect from strong winds especially during flowering or while fruit is forming.