No, that picture isn’t to show off the sexy tires on my car. See that little green ball? Someday that’ll be an orange. Yep, I bought an orange tree. And yep, I live in Tennessee.

I originally set out to buy a lime tree. I wanted to make a key lime pie here in a few months. Or have tequila shots with my very own limes. Something like that.

No, the truth is, I used to clean houses, and one of my clients had a lime tree in her sun room. There was something incredibly cool about that to me, so I filed it away in the back of my brain. I happened to be by a local nursery the other day, so I stopped in to see if they had lime trees.

And they did! They also had orange trees. I told them I’d take the one that already had fruit growing on it and had them load it up in my car. I looked like Birnam Wood rolling down the road with a tree in my tiny little Honda.

When I got it home, I looked closely at the tag on it. It said "Valencia". Odd, I thought, I bought a Key Lime tree. It was then that I looked closely at the fruit that was on it. They were round, not lime-shaped. Yep, I had bought an orange tree.

So now I have an orange tree, which is just fine with me. Dwarf Valencia trees apparently do well inside during the winter. It’ll live outside in the summer, and in the winter, it’ll come inside and live with me. I’ll keep you posted on the progress.