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Lisbon Lemon
Citrus limon ‘Lisbon’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 45L about 1.5 to 2.5m, 430mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 500mm about 2.5 to 3.5m, 150L about 2.5 to 3.5m, 200L about 3 to 4.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
Getting it in: the largest size here needs about 1.2m of clear, level access. Measure the narrowest point on the route and tell us on the booking call. Standard access is included in the price, and anything unusual is quoted and agreed with you before work begins. What happens on installation day
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Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Lisbon Lemon - Citrus limon ‘Lisbon’
‘Lisbon’ is the workhorse lemon of Australian orchards and back gardens, a vigorous, upright, heavy cropping tree that carries most of its fruit inside the canopy where foliage protects it from sunburn and light frost. Citrus limon in this selection is noticeably tougher in both heat and cold than Eureka, which is why it dominates commercial plantings in inland and cooler districts. Fruit is high acid with excellent juice volume, and the main crop lands in winter when a lemon tree earns its keep.
Why Lisbon Lemon
Heavy winter crop: The main harvest falls through winter and early spring, with lighter flushes at other times of year.
Protected fruiting: Fruit sits within the canopy rather than on the outside, reducing sunburn in hot inland gardens.
Climate range: Handles frost and heat better than most lemon varieties, extending its useful range well inland.
Vigour: Strong upright growth builds a productive framework quickly and recovers well from hard renovation pruning.
Fragrance: Purple tinged buds open to white flowers that scent an entire courtyard through spring.
Ideal Applications
Kitchen garden anchor: The standard choice for a productive back garden where one tree must supply a household year round.
Espalier on a warm wall: Vigorous enough to fill a north or east facing wall frame and easy to train on horizontal wires.
Large containers: Grown on dwarfing rootstock it performs in a half wine barrel on a sunny terrace.
Productive informal screen: A row of lemons at close spacing gives an evergreen edible boundary rather than a sterile hedge.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 2.5 to 3m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 4 to 5m
Best Planting Season: Spring and early autumn; avoid planting into cold, wet winter soil
Soil & Drainage: Free draining loam at pH 6 to 6.5, raised or mounded on clay sites, because citrus will not tolerate wet feet
Establishment Care: Water deeply twice a week through the first two summers, never letting the root zone dry out during fruit set. Mulch widely but keep mulch and soil clear of the graft union, and feed with a complete citrus fertiliser in early spring and again in late summer.
Plant Details
Height: 3 to 5m on standard rootstock, 2 to 3m on dwarfing rootstock
Width: 2.5 to 4m
Growth Rate: Moderate to fast
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun, a minimum of six hours daily
Native to: The lemon is of hybrid origin in Asia; ‘Lisbon’ has long been the mainstay lemon of Australian growing
Flower Colour: White, opening from purple tinged buds
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







