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I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. I have a handsome husband, 2 kids and a flock of pet chickens. I try and feed my family with $100 a month. With the help of coupons, gardening and bartering I am able to squeeze the most out of our grocery budget and still manage to have a little fun along the way.

Giveaway: {2} $100 Gift Certificates to Fast Growing Trees

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Just when you thought we were all giveawayed out after those crazy 24 Days of Christmas Giveaways, I’m ringing in the new year with one of my favorite giveaways EVER! I’m so excited about it I’m having trouble typing. Yep, it’s that awesome!

How to Plant a Meyer Lemon Tree Container

It’s no secret how much I love Lemon, my Meyer Lemon Tree I ordered from Fast Growing Trees. Lemon has been everything I hoped for in a tree and more. It was love at first sight because I didn’t have to haul her from the store, get the back of our truck filthy or worry about her tipping over on the way home. Nope, all I had to do was plop down at my computer, find the tree I wanted on Fast Growing Trees and with a few simple clicks, my tree was on my doorstep within days.  The experience was so awesome, in fact,  I was kicking myself that I’d wasted years getting trees the hard way!

meyer lemon tree in box fast growing trees

In addition to how simple it was to order the tree, and how speedy fast the shipping was, the tree was packed so well it arrived in perfect shape and ready to be planted. The root ball was in perfect shape too and there were already tons of lemon buds, which was a total bonus I wasn’t expecting!

Plus, their customer service was awesome, too! Right after they shipped my tree, Pam over at Fast Growing Trees sent me an email with planting instructions so I’d know just how to plant Lemon.

meyer lemon tree buds

And guess what? Now you can have a Lemon of your very own! The awesome peeps at Fast Growing Trees are generously giving away not one, but TWO $100 gift certificates to Fast Growing Trees to TWO of my lucky readers!! Wahooo!

So how do you get in to win? Just head on over to Fast Growing Trees and tell me what you’d spend your $100 gift certificate on if you won.
 A cherry tree? A Royal Empress? Or perhaps some Lavender Rhododendron?

Just answer that one question and you’re entered to win. Life’s pretty complicated sometimes, so I like to keep things simple around here.

Rules

1 entry per person/ip address. If you cheat, you will totally be disqualified.

This giveaway ends Sunday, January 12th at 6pm. Winners will be announced in the January 13th edition of Mornings with Mavis. You will be notified via email and have 24 hours to claim your prize. If you do not claim your prize within 24 hours, the prize will be forfeited.

Good Luck! I hope you win!

♥ Mavis

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Comments

  2. Another giveaway – what a great surprise! If I win, I’d order a cold-hardy avocado tree. I just love avocados, and the thought of being able to pick one from my own tree just makes me swoon!

  7. *crossing my fingers luck makes me a winner*

    I would totally buy 2 banana trees. We’ve already bought the 4 in 1 Apple, cherry, avocado, clemitine, imd lime/lemon tree from them. Hopefully will get some limes/lemons this year. We’ve had such a mild winter I doubt we’ll get apples.

  10. I would buy a Eucalyptus Tree 4 sure! I love the smell and it is fast growing and has leaves allll year long! That’s my kind of tree!

  12. I would buy a peach tree. Our peach tree died last year, so we would like a new one this year.

  13. I have wanted one of these lemon tress for some time but the choices are so great would also love one of their cold hardy Avocado!!!!

  14. I would Love to have a Meyer’s Lemon tree. I had a small one once and my cat dug it up and killed it. 🙁

  20. I would buy an apricot tree since my fiance and daughter eat their weight in them last year!

  21. Oh….so many choices! I would go for the Meyer Lemon Tree. Living in the Northeast I would have to bring it in during the winter, and that one stays pretty compact…otherwise I might try an Avocado tree. Thanks for this great giveaway Mavis and fast-growing-trees.com!

  22. Ugh such a touch choice! Either a Meyer Lemon or Key Lime tree, probably lemons. I have LOVED plain lemons since I was a kid.

  23. I was just at the plant nursery yesterday! I’d be hard pressed to decide between a pomegranate tree or a 4 in 1 Apple. They even have free shipping in California right now. Yay!

  26. I.m in zone 3 in northern ME I would love the toro blueberry and the honey crisp apple tree

  34. Wow, this would be an amazing gift. I love fruit! My 3 year ate all my strawberries last year including the green ones. It is a really hard decision because I want so much of it. After looking through it all I would have to say I would go with 2 varieties of grapes. We love jam here and fresh fruit. It’s hard though because the kiwi seems like a good choice, so does the clementine and lemon tree. I may just use the hundred dollars towards a bigger purchase and get all that I listed.

  35. I would love to order some of the Gardenia and Wisteria.

    I would really love to order some of the citrus, but because I live in Texas, they can’t ship them here.

  36. I love their site and have purchased all our fruit trees and blueberry bushes from there. I would replace the Cherry tree and Lemon tree my awesome puppy ate within months of us planting them!

  38. Cold Hardy Avocado – I love love avocados. We eat 2 -3 a week. I live in Indiana which is currently in the middle of blizzard.

  45. I ordered a lemon-lime tree from them last year. The lemon half is doing great, I have 3 very green lemons at the moment. The lime side died off entirely. So I would order another lemon-lime and see if I have better luck with it. I wanted to call it my 7-up tree. :0) Thanks mavis and Fast growing trees!

  47. Hard choice. So many cool trees. Think it’d come down to D’Anjou Pear or Majestic Peach.

  48. Dwarf bing cherry….my kids and i fought over all the cherries last year on our one tree so this year we need another.

  49. I would love some Robb
    inson crab apple trees. the blossoms are so beautiful in the spring of the year, and the Orioles they attract.

  52. What a great giveaway 🙂 I would order a cold hardy avocado tree 🙂 I love avocados!!! Thank you for the giveaway 🙂

  54. I would do the 4-1 Pear Tree or some sort of shade tree that turns pretty colors in the fall!

  60. Harvester Peach and Pink Lady Apples…yeah I’d blow the budget but I cant help it! Now I could afford 2 instead of one. Lol

  65. I want a Juniper Skyrocket or blue spruce so bad! We dug up old bushes last year and need to plant something in the evergreen family dearly!

  66. Elberta peach tree (here in Alabama it’s kinda a must), and about a dozen Heritage raspberries (those suckers cost a boatload!). Yahoo! Tree planting season!

  73. I would get some raspberries. After my mom passed away, my aunt sent me some money to buy something to plant to remember her by. Since she loved raspberries, I planted them. Then my stupid chickens got out and went and dug them up. Replant, and repeat. Until there was no hope left. Someday, I’m going to replant and fence better. I don’t know if it’ll be the same though.

  76. I’d have to go for a pink dogwood tree! My mom had always wanted one, so a few years ago we got her one for Mother’s Day…but rabbits chewed up all the lower bark and the poor little tree never made it. 🙁

  82. I’ll go with a lemon.
    Hope they will have some dwarf ones…as the power lines go through our back yard and had a peach/apple they cut down and suppose to replace them with dwarfs..so will see.

  84. Ohmygosh. I didn’t even know that place existed. I am pretty sure I’d buy the banana tree. We live in the frosty and cold Midwest. We moved here 8 years ago after Hurricane Katrina blew us out of our home in New Orleans. We had a banana tree in our backyard there, and it was heaven. I bet I could grow on here, if I move it inside in winter. It’d be like a blast from the past.

  86. Considering that Royal Empress trees are apparently considered invasive species in the United States ( *sad* ), I’d like a lovely little citrus tree (so many to pick from!) now for my tiny Chicago flat, and perhaps a fiery Japanese maple to keep me company if I ever find a place with a bit more planting room 🙂

  87. Tough choice! Either a Meyer lemon, kumquat, or a blood orange tree! My three favorite citrus fruits!

  88. If I won, I would love to buy a brown turkey fig tree or two. I love that they are cold hardy and would be a treat that I don’t find in the store very often. Thanks for the entry!

  90. Wow! I had no idea so many trees could work out as indoor plants. I think that I’d prefer to start with a clementine tree, next a Meyer lemon.

  93. I would get an avocado!!! I wish I could eat them everyday but they are too expensive for my regular budget.

  94. How about one (or two) of everything!!! We have several acres of bare land and desperately need trees. I need windbreak trees and fruit trees and nut trees and shade trees and pretty trees and..and…. I need trees!

  95. Apple Tree- check, Blueberries bushes- check, blackberry vines- check. I believe a fruit cocktail tree would round out my yard. Although, a pear would be nice too. Hmmmmmm, the choices.

  96. OMG…totally cold hearty avocados!!!!!! We buy those every week, what an amazing thing to be able to pick my own!!

  100. I’d love to have a Pink Lady apple tree. I love those apples and this would be great to start off my orchard.

  101. Cherry, or maybe a cherry, but I really like cherry trees! I think I’d get a cherry tree or five. But maybe just a cherry tree. I kinda really love cherry trees, but I’d have to go with a cherry tree! 😉

  110. I would add a cold hardy avocado. Or a pear. Or a 4 in 1 cherry. Or a red ruby grapefruit. I would love to have fruit trees!

  111. Oh, wow! I would love to have a navel orange tree. I could pretend i lived somewhere warm then and not zone 4!

  112. Without a doubt, I would love a Cold Hardy Avocado Tree. I recommend Fast-Growing Trees.com, too. I’ve never ordered a tree for myself – yet, but I ordered a memorial tree for a friend at his wife’s passing from them. What a great company, with excellent customer service.

    Happy 2014!
    Rita

  114. How timely is this?!? I’ve been searching website all week looking for some additions to my backyard mini-orchard. I would probably go for the 5-in-1 apple tree, but am going to spend some time looking through this site tonight. 🙂

  115. I could spend hours on that website dreaming about a mini orchard…one of everything please!

  116. I think I would get a couple of the English Boxwood. I think they would look great trimmed with lights on each side of my front door!!

  120. Oh my goodness! When you listed your favorite sites the other day, I went to Fast Growing Trees and was playing around, I have already decided I want a cold hardy avocado tree. I’m very excited to get one, and a gift certificate would be wonderful!

  124. Yeah! 🙂 I would LOVE a Maple Tree to get my own Maple Syrup!! So Excited!

  133. Lemon, lemons, lemons! I would have to get a Meyer lemon so I can make lemon curd, lemon bars, lemonade, lemon meringue pie, lemon pound cake…you get the idea.

  135. I need to bulk up my berry collection, so thornless blackberry(yes please!), golden raspberries(heck yes!), and goji berry. 🙂 Thanks, Mavis! 🙂

  137. I would totally get a cold hardy avocado tree!! I love avocado, and I prefer it on my sandwiches over cheese and mayonnaise. Not to mention all the yummy Mexican dishes fresh avocado would improve!

  139. So much to drool over!! I lost a few fruit trees last spring to annoying bunnies. I would love to replace the Bartlett pear and cherry tree!

  140. I would get a Nikko blue hydrangea and either a key lime or Meyer lemon tree. Yum!!

  146. Our new Cherry Tree was completely demolished by the deer this summer. :(. So I’d get a new one!

  148. I would love a Tangelo Tree! Talk about a cool tree. A Tangerine and Grapefruit combination! Who would have thought!
    My other favorites are the Meyer Lemon Tree and the Navel Orange Tree.

  149. I totally need a cold hardy avocado! We would save a ton if we could grow these babies!

  150. If I had the gift certificate I would get 3 different varieties of self pollinating blue berry bushes. I am especially interested in the pink lemonade one. =)

  153. Apple tree!! My husband loves apples and we planted some last year. One didn’t make it (deer, I think!!) and I’d like to replace it.

  154. I’d LOVE. A Gravenstein apple, but don’t see them (or they’re not meant for the west). I’d probably get some type of apple or a Meyer lemon.

  157. I don’t know how I could ever decide! I have a wish list a mile long of fruit trees for my yard. I have 5 acres full if wild raspberries…. so probably a cherry. . .

  158. I love, LOVE, LOVE Meyer Lemons and have been totally envious since you got yours (but very sad that the babies died). After you mentioned that you got lemons at Costco (which I didn’t realize that they had) I headed on over and had one every day in hot water – plus ate the remaining – they are so sweet!!! I did make some Christmas desserts for my neighbors and some lemon salt, too. I would LOVE to have a Meyer Lemon Tree (and name her Lola)!!

  159. Isn’t it funny how we all get worked up over the planning process? I think I would have to go with the forsythia for sure. I miss living in the rural areas where these are so plentiful.

  162. I would have to do the Gravenstein apple tree and give it to my mom- they are her absolute favorite kind of apples, and her favorite apple tree died a few years ago.

  164. I would love a cold hardy avocado tree or a meyer lemon tree. Love the fact that I can move them in and out as patio trees. -6 where i am right now, would hate to kill them.

  168. So many I would love to have, but my first choice would HAVE to be an avocado tree because I just LOVE avocados! If I had an avocado tree I would be happier than a pig in slop! Lol Thanks for the giveaway, Mavis!

  171. Definitely need a meyer lemon, some grapes, blueberries, and knockout rose trees……gonna cost me all my birthday money~

  173. I would definitely want the Meyer lemon tree. I have always wanted one and reading about yours makes me extremely jealous!

  179. The four way cherry tree hands down would be my top choice!! I didn’t have to look because I was on there last week pinning my dream list of fruit trees. I love that they have reviews for products too!

    KK @ Preppy Pink Crocodile

  182. Bay laurel and a olive tree. Omg!!! So gonna buy from them in the near future. Thank you. My own coffee tree 🙂

  183. one of the western apple trees! mmmmmm applesauce, apple crisp, apple kuchen, apple cobbler, apple brown betty, waldorf salad, apple juice, caramel apple bread pudding, german apple pancakes, baked apples, apple butter, apple tart, apple streudel, mulligatawny, apple fritters, apple torte, apple dumpling, apple cake, baked apple oatmeal, apple cider, apple bars, apple fruit rollups, apples dipped in peanut butter, apple slaw, apple turnovers, apple crumble, and of course….apple pie!

  185. Lemon tree for sure! Or maybe a cherry, or an apple….. Omg I just can’t decide!
    Thanks so much for the chance!

  186. I would get an Elberta Peach Tree! We moved last year and I want fruit trees, peach being one of my favorites!

  189. I would choose two honey crisp or two Rainer cherry trees! We just moved to the NW and are starting fresh with life!

  192. If you can grow a Meyer Lemon there, then surely I can grow one 5 minutes north of the WA border in Canada! So that would be my choice!

  193. I would get the Meyer Lemon tree. I have always loved Meyer lemons and always wanted a tree of my own.

  195. A royal empress tree! We moved into our property last May and have wanted to put one in before our first anniversary of being here! It’ll be perfect! 🙂

  199. I’ve had my eye on a Wonderful pomegranate tree for a while but it hasn’t been in our budget

  200. I really want a lemon tree. It may be a poor choice because I am in zone 6 and its -13 right now.

  203. I would have to choose between lilacs, hydrangeas or apple trees. All would be amazing

  204. I would order a Meyer lemon tree. I ordered a eureka lemon and blood orange trees from there last year! They are great!

  205. I would get a Meyer lemon tree because I just love lemons. Period. I order extra ones in my tea and with fish when we go out to eat, and then send my husband to the restroom (because he can’t stand to just sit and watch me eat them) and eat all of the lemon wedges, one-at-a-time! So good! And they are SOOO expensive in stores! As I have told you before, I grew up in California and we had 5 lemon trees in our yard. Just loved plucking one off the tree and eating it like other kids ate oranges. Living in the Midwest now makes them almost a delicacy. I have been watching the adventures of ‘Mavis and the Meyer Lemon,’ hoping that you could actually pull off growing a lemon tree in a pot. Watching to see if maybe, just maybe, there might be a chance it would be something I could do too. Winning this contest would be SO COOL! (My very own lemon tree. *sigh*) Yes, I would definitely get a Meyer Lemon Tree. Pick me, Mavis! PICK ME!!

  209. Definitely a citrus tree — probably lime. We already have a lemon, but I might get another of those. Though maybe a clementine for my girl who loves them.

  210. Peach trees for sure. Our dog thought the last one we planted was a chew toy…

  211. Oh, man! I browse the Fast Growing Trees site all the time! I just built a house in a planned community, so there is NOTHING here. I seriously NEED some edible landscaping – cherry trees, apple tree, blueberry bushes, etc. We also recently learned that we need to set up some king of windbreak because even brand new double hung windows aren’t as airtight as 10 y/o casements!

  213. I would go with the 4 in 1 apple tree. My husband and I used to go pick at a elderly neighbors house every year. Sadly he passed away and the house was sold. The new owners cut down 12 apple trees! I wanted to cry! Even if they didn’t pick the apples myself and other neighbors gladly would have.

  214. I’d order the Thornless Blackberry and 3-in-1 Blueberry! Always enjoyed gardening and have recently become a follower of your blog. Thank you for sharing!

  218. Ooh apple and pear trees! This is our second year at our home and we’d love to plant a whole bunch (but are putting all extra pennies towards our mortgage, thus leaving less for fruit tree money). Ooh I hope I win! 🙂 Good luck to everyone!

  221. Hmmm…dwarf apple, fig, blueberry, hydrangea, rhododendron , too many choices! Apple or blueberries it is!
    What a great giveaway!
    Happy New Year!

  222. Hi Mavis! I would get a Cold Hardy Avocado. With as many avocados as we eat this would be awesome!

  226. It is nice to dream! It is difficult to choose from the many lovely items, however, I would choose the cold hardy avocado tree. I have a very small lot where I already grow blackberries, strawberries, and grapes in addition to my garden. Would love to have a “tree.”

  228. Last year we planted 2 apple trees and 2 blueberry bushes. A very small start for my plans to grow more of our own. I would love to add a peach tree, more blueberry bushes, strawberries, raspberries, maybe blackberries. If I won this I would get the peach tree.

  230. I would love a Meyer Lemon tree or the Calamondin tree. Yum! Thanks for the great giveaway!

  231. I think I’d put it towards a 4-in-1 cherry tree. Need to read up more on chill time, though. If cherries are not good for my area, I’d probably go with a peach tree since I know those grow well here.

  234. I’d love any sort of fruit producing tree, I live in coastal NC so it would have to be something that would survive down here. I think pears grow great around here.

  235. A Pear and a peach tree. We are huge fruit eaters – we have apple and cherry trees – a pear and peach would help round it out.
    Thank you!

  237. I would get a fig tree or two. We had one at my old house and I really miss all that free fruit every summer.

  243. I think I would get a few banana trees prayer an Apple tree. I really am trying to start my garden this year 🙂

  248. The Giant Swallowtail caterpillars tend to leave our little lime tree leafless, so I’d definitely go with a Meyer Lemon as well. Lemons for us and plenty more leaves for the beautiful butterfly caterpillars that we share our tree with. It’d be a win-win! Thanks for the chance, Mavis!

  251. Rainier cherry tree and a concord grape. But I might wait and see if the poor honeycrisp apple and peach trees I planted last spring have survived the -12F that hit a few nights ago. If they haven’t, then I would definitely get another apple.

  255. Meyer lemon or key lime. I have 2 meyer lemons that are tiny little things. I am feeling rather impatient at the speed with which they grow!

  260. I work in an urban community garden and we’re always trying to show the residents how to cook without salt. I would choose a lemon tree to plant in the garden and use as demonstration on how lemon juice can be a great salt substitute.

  269. We just moved to 5 acres in Colorado and hope to start our gardening adventures this year (I am loving our chickens!) I think I would either buy an apple tree (granny smith) or two thornless blackberry bushes. Thanks!

  272. Cold Hardy Avocado!! Never knew it existed. Thanks for pointing me to that website. Will definitely be checking that one out!

  274. An Elberta Peach tree, although, it’s really hard to choose. So many gorgeous trees!

  286. Being that I have limited space in the city and I only have 1/4 arce in southern Idaho to work with I would go for smaller high yield items like the 3-in-1 Blueberry bush or BrazelBerries® Raspberry Shortcake Bush and Peach Sorbet Blueberry Bush. Either option will work great at my new home.

  288. I would order a Poplar Hybrid. No trees on our property and need to add some. Love that it grows apprx 10 feet per year.

  289. I’d love a Japanese Maple but I’m not sure if it would grow well in my area. I would have to see what trees like dry, hot desert summers.

  290. A lime and an avocado. I already have one of their lemons and tangerines, and love them both.

  291. Omgosh Mavis…. I would plant 2 Toro Blueberries to add to add to my sustainability and to make preserves.. I would also plant some heritage Raspberries.. YUMMMMMMM what a bonus those would be to my garden…. Sooooo excited.. will probably buy some even if i dont win.. LOL

  292. We already have blueberries, plums, peaches, and Satsuma trees. So, I would either get a male and female Arctic Kiwi Tree or a Meyer Lemon. Thanks for the opportunity.

  294. I would have to get some privacy trees since we’re on a very visible corner. I would also want to get something fun like a pear tree.

  295. I would totally pick up 2 bluebrry peach sorbet bushes!! Perfect for container gardeningso I wouldn’t have to leave it at the rental house! I think I’m going to pick up one no matter what! 🙂

  299. I’d put it towards their cold hardy avocado tree. We love avocados, but they are so expensive. Would be great to grow our own. 🙂

  301. I would choose a Meyer lemon (you’re just a bit north of me, so if you can do it, I might be able to manage!) or a fig tree.

  302. how can i pick? okay, here is a list: lilacs, cherry tree, peach tree, apple tree…. and many moooore!

  304. I would start a small apple orchard – starting with the Gravenstein Apple tree. I’m in Zone 8B so I have lots of choices! 🙂

  306. So hard to decide. We really want some apple trees but that Meyer Lemon looks good too!

  307. A Meyer Lemon tree, too. We moved a year ago. We had a lemon tree at our last house and I miss it!

  313. Container gardening is the name of the game at my house. I would get some blueberry bushes. If the sale keeps going, looks like I could get 2 or 3 with the gift card. 🙂

  314. Well, since we just moved and I had to leave all my beloved blueberries behind, I would order a few blueberry bushes.

  320. I would be so excited to win this giveaway!! I would get a Texas everbearing fig and a rabbiteye blueberry bush. I LOVE LOVE LOVE figs and blueberries!!

  322. My selfish side says gets a flowering tree for beauty… But my frugal side says get a clementine tree! Oh the torture….

  323. I would get an Owari Satsuma. My sister has several and brought us some the satsumas over Christmas holidays. They were better than the cuties I buy by the box. I would also love a fig tree and blueberry bushes.

  324. After reading comments from all the other posters, it would be a toss up between a citrus tree or a cold-hardy avocado tree (which I didn’t realize existed!). I LOVE me some avocados!!

    Thanks, Mavis.

    Cyndi

  325. I would love a Golden Raintree, they are beautiful and supposed to be drought tolerant once established.

  326. Hi Mavis!

    I think having a couple of avocado trees in my yard would be fabulous! Is also like pomegranite and persimmon some day too!

    Thanks!

  327. I would love to have the Meyer Lemon tree! Last year I purchased 2 ity bity ones from Gurneys and they both died (:

  328. Hands down, it would be a Elberta Peach but I think that fruit cocktail would be a winner. Maybe both!

  329. I would get the Peach Sorbet Blueberry and plant it in my flower bed for some winter color.

  330. Pomegranate, cold hardy avocado, or maybe grapefruit. If only I had room for one of everything.

  331. I would buy the Anna Southern Apple Tree if I was lucky enough to win a gift certificate!

  340. A lemon tree would be awesome, but I’m pretty sure it would just shrivel up and die here. I would probably try Heritage Raspberry, Toro Blueberry, or Peach Sorbet Blueberry.

  342. Where to start? I miss my grandparents back yard in FL, so I would say fruit trees of some sort.

  343. I would get a Bartlett Pear Tree. I LOVE pears, and it would be a great way to help start a mini orchard in my backyard.

  345. I would get some kind of a pear tree, but would need to do a little research. We live in the northern tip of NY and it gets cold here.

  349. What a great website! Probably a pink dogwood or one of those cold hardy avacados. Thanks!!

  352. Growing up in Southern California meant we had lemon, orange and avocado trees in our back yard, now I live in Seattle and I really miss being able to pick a yummy, warm lemon right off the tree. Sooo, I would choose a meyer lemon tree, since avocado doesn’t stand a chance here.

  357. I would have to choose an Almond tree because that’s what my Husband wants! But if it was up to be I would choose a pear or cherry tree. Sadly they don’t ship the apple tree I want to Oregon. This is the third summer in our house and our first year doing a proper garden, So excited.

  358. I want them all! Okay, but I’d start with 2 Clementines for the front of my house. Later, I’d spend another $100 on a Meyer Lemon and patio Lime Tree.

  359. I would use the certificate to purchase one Pink Lady Apple tree and I’d use my cash to buy a heirloom Red Delicious Apple tree for pollination. Thanks!!

  365. Wow! You have a lot of responses already! I would buy a peach or cherry tree to go with our 4-in-1 apple trees!

  366. We are looking into starting our own u-pick so any fruit trees or bushes would be what we would order. We already have a list going.

  367. oooh! Figs and plums! I’ve been wanting to plant both of those for sometime! Maybe the Turkey fig and the Methley plum, although the fruit cocktail tree is very alluring!

  368. Toro Blueberries and Triumph grapes! I will definitely be passing on the Miracle fruit plants- I know some folks who’d be interested in those!

  372. Key Lime Tree to go with my Meyer Lemon Tree! Mavis, my Meyer Lemon tree just bloomed! Smells divine! I’m wondering how to turn the flowers to lemons…my flowers died last year and no lemons ever came. What’s your Meyer Lemon game plan this year??

  373. Just moved from warm sunny California to Idaho and I had to leave my Meyer lemon trees behind. I would love to have another Meyer lemon tree and a cold hardy Avacado tree. I hope to build a small green house to house them in. Thanks.

  374. I would order the Jane Magnolia tree. I had no idea that I could grow special kinds of Magnolias in my cold neck of the woods. They look so pretty. Great giveaway!

  375. My grandma has a meyer lemon tree that she grows indoors (we’re in Wyoming, so not exactly lemon tree environment!) and I have always wanted one, too. That, and a blueberry bush…..we eat a lot of blueberries in our family.

  376. It’s kind of boring, but I would get the Nettle Stevens Holly to block out pesky neighbors. We’ve been looking for a privacy hedge and these are beautiful!

  379. I would get a Santa Rosa Plum. I live in Colorado now, but was originally from Northern California and think it is awesome that a plum tree that can grow here in Colorado has a name that I can associate with my original home. Thanks for doing the giveaway.

  381. I live in a condo so I can’t really plant much of what they sell so I’d probably buy something for my mom. I’m thinking the McIntosh Apple Tree looks good.

  383. Thuja Green Giants please! We have new neighbors……AND an avocado tree to share with them too!

  384. I bought a Meyer Lemon tree last year and I am in love. Now, I’m ready for a fig tree, cold hardy avocado tree and some berry bushes! I’m ready to fill up our small backyard.

  388. so hard to pick, an heirloom apple for the orchard or maybe something exotic like a fig or olive for indoors.

  389. Ooh I love your giveaways! I would buy a lilac bush and maybe a pineapple plant. Although i would be tempted to spend the whole giftcard on a Meyer Lemon.

  390. I would love to have a Bay Laurel tree and perhaps a Walnut (although the link seed broken – the nut trees all point to Chestnuts).

  392. I’m torn between a Meyer lemon and an Evergreen! I love love love using Meyer lemons, the smell of them brings a smile to my face!

  396. Hi Mavis! (I’m loving your blog, btw!) .. If I were to win the gift certificate, it would be a toss up for me between a Meyer’s Lemon tree… or an avocado tree!! I’ve always wanted to have both. What a cool give-away. 🙂

  397. I’d buy an avocado tree for the preschool where I am director. We’ve got a little garden going and we’re always looking to add something that the kids will like to eat!

  402. What a fun givce-away. Even if I don’t win appreciate finding the site…but if I do win would love a Profusion Crabapple. The mason bees love it.

  404. I am just getting into growing my food again after being away from it for 40+ years, the ex would have nothing if it was “homemade”, but I have to do it all in containers. (I bought my doublewide home that sits in a rural mobile home park- big private yards but no in ground vegetable gardens due to underground wires and pipes.) My back deck with the sides enclosed will function as my greenhouse. I would choose the Brazel Raspberry Bush.

  405. I recently moved to California so I have been hankering for fruit trees! I would het a blood orange tree, and a lemon tree. Or maybe avocado? So fun! Thanks!

  406. I would order any edible fruit tree/bush they tell me I would be able to grow – and not kill.

  408. I live in a prime Meyer Lemon area and a lot of my neighbors have them, I am so jealous! I would order us our very own Lemon the meyer lemon tree (and probably another citrus so she wouldn’t get lonely :))

  409. Yes! I am in definite need of a Meyer Lemon Tree of my own, plus a mini-orchard of Cherry Trees to plant behind my chicken coop! 🙂

  410. I would love a meyer lemon, on possibly one of the cherry trees – how about the pineapple, no wait! honeycrisp apple!!! It would be so difficult to choose just one tree…….

  411. I would get a cold hardy avocado tree. My daughter loves avocados but here in MN the quality and price is so inconsistent. It would be nice to have one of our own.

  415. After selling the farm and moving to a Townhouse, I would love to try small fruit trees. We miss our garden so much, but I am learning to enjoy the bounty of others. A Meyer Lemon, maybe a few blueberries to add the side yard, would keep our fingers green.

  416. So hard to pick! I love trees………ok, I think the lemon meyer or the white weeping cherry.Wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tea Olive? Life is so hard.

  417. I would choose a Crape Myrtle and plant it where I had to have a dogwood removed. They are so cheerful!

  418. I would purchase an apple tree – so many yummy recipes using apples, pie, applesauce, jams, cakes etc. Hope I win!

  422. Ohhhhh… I LOVE this giveaway!!! I would definitely choose a couple of Rabbiteye Blueberry Bushes!!! I’ve been throwing the hint out to my husband for a couple of months that I want some BUUUUUUTTT…. if I won this, I would be oh-so-STOKED!!!

  423. I would love to have a Heritage Raspberry (2 year-old stock) and a North Star Cherry tree. They total $3.90 more than the gift certificate but I would gladly pay the difference in price to give them a good home! … And they are hardy in my zone!!

  424. I would get the Meyer Lemon too. Have you ever tried Ohio Lemon Pie? It is tart and dense and may not be for everyone, but around here when Meyer Lemons show up (from the store because I don’t have a tree) Ohio Lemon Pie gets made and it is an event. (We use the Joy of Cooking’s recipe, but I am sure there are some on the web too)

  426. I would so love to have some arctic kiwi. I know it is not a tree but you did not say it had to be 🙂

  428. I would get a Eureka lemon tree and a Clementine tree. I have always wanted citrus trees of my own.

  434. Ooooooo…I think I would get the blood orange. The ruby grapefruit, satsuma orange, and Greek or Italian olive could be tempting, too. The kiwi would be fun as would the banana (but I think it said the bananas were ornamental?). I already have blueberries, meyer lemon, key lime, fig, and grapes…but more would be nice…..hmmmm…this would be tough.

  438. My favorites are Lilac bushes. Love the smell of lilacs! Second favorite is hydrangea. They always look so big and full. But I might want to try a lemon tree if I could find a way to grow it in the northeast!

  441. Meyer Lemon and a crape myrtle. Thank you for telling us about this great company, their selection is great. I don’t have enough money to buy two trees this year so I am really hopeful to win the contest.

  442. I have a Meyer lemon tree and my life-long friend was with me when I bought it. She too wanted one, but the store only had one. Today is her 60th birthday and if I won the gift certificate I would buy her a Meyer lemon tree. She would love.love.love it!

  444. I would love to have a Meyer Lemon Tree. I think my entire family would really enjoy watching it grow. Hope I win! 🙂

  445. I would totally order Meyer Lemon trees too! Matter of fact, I’d get 2 of them!! 🙂

  447. I think I’d either get the cold-hardy avocado or a meyer lemon tree. I’m a sucker for avocados, but the idea of fresh citrus is amazing as well!

  448. I would pick the Elberta Peach Tree…I decided not to plant anything else in my yard that I can’t eat!!!

  449. I think I would try a Red Haven Peach Tree or maybe some kind of apple for my zone. I didn’t think there would be so many choices!

  450. After my husband and I just yarded many Holly trees, messy Maple trees and huge unseen Blackberry vines, we really need about three Leland Cypress to hide the neighbors unsightly side yard (like ours was three days ago). We aren’t thru yet!!

  451. Definitely would do a Meyer lemon tree. We had a Meyer lemon tree, a tangerine tree and an orange tree in our backyard in San Diego. Now that we’ve moved to Colorado, I MISS the Meyer lemons so much!!

  458. I’ve been longing for a kefir lime and meyer lemon tree! I need to move to florida 😉

  460. Robinson Crabapple! I need it to pollinate my Gravenstein- they’re both early bloomers. Yay! Thanks for the chance 🙂

  463. I’d love a Meyer Lemon too. I cook with lemons often and would love to go out to the yard for mine.

  464. Considering yesterday was my birthday, we will just consider a few blueberry bushes a late gift!!!

  467. Oh howdy Mavis, I have been dreaming about the 3in1 blueberry bush for some time. Doesn’t it sound AMAZING?

  469. Wow! Such decisions! After years of only growing flowers and tomatoes, I am now concentrating on growing for our table. I would have to pick the Brown Turkey Fig Tree and Miracke Berry Fruit for the novelty and for my sweet tooth or, blueberry bushes.

  471. This is so hard!! But I think I would choose the wonderful pomegranate as well as the knock out rose tree! I would love a lemon, our old neighbors had one and I was always so jealous, but we just don’t have room in the house to overwinter it…

  472. I would love a Meyer lemon tree. My sister has one and I am jealous! A pomegranate tree or apple tree would be good too! They have lots of great options. Thanks for sharing the site!

  473. Oh, decisions, decisions! Hard to choose between a Meyer lemon or cold hardy avocado! Probably go with the lemon, though. Fingers crossed!

  474. cold hardy avocado would be my choice or maybe a cherry tree or maybe a meyer lemon tree or maybe clementine or maybe???? OOHHH I can’t decide I want them all!!!!

  478. We would get Cold Hardy Avocado and the planting mix and planting kit.
    Our daughter loves avocados!!

  479. I would love October Red Maple for its speedy growth for my son’s back yard. He is raising 2 little girls by himself and desparately needs shade in the back of his house. I also love the fall colors.

  480. I would order the 5 in one apple tree. I have been looking at these for forever! Cross pollination in one package! I have one apple tree left and it flowers every year, but without a pollinator, it doesn’t grow fruit. My dogs ate the other apple tree…..and my crabapple tree…..and my chokecherry tree……even though they were wrapped.

    Needless to say, we now have our garden locked up like Fort Knox, hot wire and everything.

  481. Definitely the 4 in one Apple tree! My family LOVES apples and my goal for the year is to start growing as much of our food as possible! Thanks for a wonderful blog. I look forward to it each day and am learning so much!

  482. One of our homestead goals this year is to plant some fruit trees….and there are so many to choose from at Fast Growing Trees.com!! I would say Apple, Peach, and Lemon are my picks!! (The grapes looked AWESOME too!!)
    Thank you for the giveaway offer! Crossing my fingers!! 🙂 LOL

  486. Wow–so many entries! Hope I’m exceedingly lucky with this one. Berry bushes and/or grape vines. YUM!! Thanks, Mavis!

  487. Only one question, but it sure is a doozy. How to choose?!? I’d have to splurge over the giveaway amount and get the Arctic Kiwi and the Key Lime. Thanks for the opportunity!

  488. A dwarf north star cherry tree. Here in Minnesota we don’t have very many fruit tree options!

  490. Oh gosh! I don’t know how I would pick. I can say that a Meyer Lemon Tree would be wonderful, but I am sure it would be spend on berry bushes.

  497. I would get a lime tree and/or a cold-hardy avocado. I already have two lime trees, but you can never have too many lime trees.

  500. I don’t know… it’s a close tie between a Meyer Lemon and a Fig Tree… not sure which one I would go for!

  501. Meyer lemon please! We had one in the backyard growing up. I miss my mom’s lemon pie. Would love to bake and eat one.

  509. A granny smith apple tree! Can lightning strike twice, Mavis? 🙂 I sure loved those chocolate-covered strawberries.

  512. I’d love to have a lemon or lime tree in the house, but my husband would probably opt for something that would survive outside in Wyoming.

  515. I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A MEYER LEMON TREE….but I would have to get jazzy with the name something like Lemon Jr. or Lemon II…lol so I don’t exactly copy yours. Love them. Live in Norfolk, Virginia and I have never tried growing a lemon tree in my garden before! Thank you!

  519. I have really been drooling over the 4 in one cherry tree they have on their website! A cherry tree is the only thing that I didn’t get crossed of my wish list last year 🙁

  520. I have a very long list of items I’d like to get from Fast Growing Trees website. The first would be a Lemon Meyer tree. I think that Fast Growing Trees need to but a link to your post about the day your Lemon Meyer tree arrived. I was amazed with how well packed it looked in your post. That post sold me on ordering from them!

  521. i’d buy honeycrisp apple trees, if they would grow in this region, b/c they’re our favorite!

  523. Avocado tree! I was so happy to see a cold HARDY version that will grow in my climate! Woot! Gotta try a citrus tree…..maybe I need to move to a warmer climate in general 🙂

  524. I have a very long list of things that I would like to get from Fast Growing Trees but the first would be the Lemon Meyer Tree. I was sold on this company after seeing your blog post of your purchase of your Lemon Meyer Tree from them. I think that Fast Growing Trees needs to put a link to your post about your tree so that others shopping on their website can see how well they pack their trees.

  525. Since they are 25% off, I would pick the nagami kumquat and the moro blood orange tree. Thanks for this great giveaway chance!!

  531. I would definitely get a cold-hardy avocado tree that I could grow on my 3 season sun porch! Out goes that puny pit I have been trying to grow for the last 6 months!

  533. I would buy a Royal Empress Tree and a Miracle fruit tree. Actually I would love one of each but have to be realistic.

  534. Honeycrisp. Though I am sure the hubbie could have differing thoughts. Great giveaway, Mavis. Thank you.

  536. I would like to have an Arctic Kiwi plants. I would have to buy a male and female plants. ‘d also like a 3 in 1 Blueberry bush and a Golden Raspberry bush. Things that I can plant on our property that will grow and mature and provide fruit for a long time for me and my family. I tell you, that would be just such a great surprise!

  541. I would love to get a Meyer Lemon tree to have in the house. We moved this last year and I had to give up all my house plants, what a wonderful way to start adding back to my house plants. Thanks Mavis, I really am enjoying your blog and newsletters!

  545. I just saw last night that avocados can help with weight loss and might even prevent cancer, so since I live in Florida, I’d go with a Haas avocado tree!

  546. If I could talk the HH into an apple tree… Ooh I’d be happy. Otherwise a bay laurel or avocado!

  548. Meyer lemon or cherry tree or mmmm and really good apple tree….I like pears too. Too many trees, no enough space.

  549. A Meyer lemon tree for sure! The blueberries are also tempting, but the possibilities are endless when you can have lemons out your back door!!!

  550. I would buy a couple of the raspberry shortcake bushes! I love raspberries in just about any dessert, but I don’t currently have any raspberry plants, since I live in a rental. The tiny bushes would be perfect for my container garden.

  551. “Apple Tree, Apple Tree, will your apples fall on me? I won’t cry and I won’t shout, if your apples knock me out!”

    My husband and I were just discussing getting our very first fruit trees, but after doing some research decided we couldn’t afford to take the plunge! Low and behold, Mavis shows up in my Facebook news feed telling me I can enter to win $100 towards that dream! So excited! We want apples!

  552. I would order a Kieffer Pear. I have been loving all the things I can do with pears lately, especially juicing.

  554. I would order black raspberries. My mom is always talking about the ones she had growing up; they sound amazing and I’ve never seen them for sale in stores!

  555. I’d like to order a couple of the Basjoo Bananas to grow in Illinois and make my yard feel more tropical in the summer.

  556. So many choices from which to choose, but I’d either go with the Avocado tree or the Royal Pawlonia….. then again berry bushes would be really nice too… no maybe the Meyer Lemon , yep Lemon for sure..Well, any of the choices they offer would be much appreciated growing in my yard..fingers crossed. Have a nice weekend.

  557. It would be toss up between the 5-in-1 apple tree and the Autumn Blaze Red Maple to help shade our front yard

  561. I want the Tulip Poplar. The back of my house where my bedroom is faces west and I need a great fast growing shade tree to help keep my bedroom cool in the summer.

  563. I’d love a fig tree or a McIntosh apple tree — but their crazy grafted 4-in-1 cherry or fruit cocktail trees look pretty appealing as well!

  567. I would get the Wonderful Pomegranate tree. As a child growing up we had a very large pomegranate tree, it was taller than our home. It had the most amazing orange colored blossoms and gorgeous red fruit. The tree produced enough fruit for our family of 7 and enough to share with neighbors each season. I would LOVE to have a beautiful pomegranate tree again in my yard for my family 🙂

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