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adriano2

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Re: Menton 2015
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2015, 04:36:30 PM »
adrino2 thanks for reminding us about the lemon festival in Menton, France.  For those that have Google Earth, checkout the city of Menton.  A really nice city on the Mediterranean coast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13uXdTJt5hc

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Re: Menton 2015
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2015, 04:51:43 PM »
Most amazing for me was citrus collection in palace carnoles garden. Kumquat trees reach 6 meters in height. I thougt they can grow only 2 meters high.

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Re: Menton 2015
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2015, 05:25:41 PM »
The Palace Carnoles garden in Menton  has  the largest collection of citrus trees in Europe and is classified as a notable garden of France. There are 137 different citrus varieties in the Carnoles garden citrus collection. - Millet