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Nursery Direct
Sweet Lime
Citrus limetta
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.
Supplied in 400mmtypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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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.
Sweet Lime - Citrus limetta
Citrus limetta is not a lime in the acid sense at all. The fruit looks like a small round lemon and the juice is sweet and very low in acid, which is why it is sold across South Asia and the Middle East as a breakfast juice rather than a cooking citrus. The tree itself is compact and densely twiggy, with strongly fragrant white blossom, and it suits a large pot or a warm sheltered corner as readily as an orchard row.
Why Sweet Lime
Low Acid Fruit: Juice is mild and sweet, drinkable straight rather than needing sugar.
Compact Habit: Stays smaller than a lemon or grapefruit, which keeps harvesting simple.
Blossom Fragrance: Heavy spring flowering scents an entire courtyard.
Container Suitability: Takes well to pot culture in a warm, protected position.
Long Harvest: Ripe fruit holds on the tree for weeks, so picking can be spread out.
Ideal Applications
Edible Courtyard: A productive tree that also works as an ornamental evergreen.
Warm Terrace Pot: Grown in a large container that can be moved out of frost.
Productive Espalier: Trains readily against a north facing wall for extra warmth.
Mixed Citrus Grove: Extends the range of flavours alongside lemons, limes and mandarins.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 2 to 2.5m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 3 to 4m
Best Planting Season: Spring and early autumn, never into cold soil
Soil & Drainage: Free draining sandy loam at a slightly acidic to neutral pH, as citrus will not tolerate wet feet
Establishment Care: Water deeply twice a week through the first two summers and keep a mulch ring that stops well clear of the trunk. Feed with a complete citrus fertiliser in late winter and again in late summer, and protect from frost for the first few years.
Plant Details
Height: 3 to 5m
Width: 2 to 3m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun, with shelter from cold wind
Native to: Of hybrid citrus origin, long cultivated across southern Asia and the Mediterranean
Flower Colour: White and strongly fragrant
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.







