Most Arizona natives knows that the five C's of Arizona are copper, cattle, cotton, citrus, and climate. The state's most popular citrus includes lemons, limes, and oranges and they thrived due to our city’s irrigation efforts in the late 1800s!
Here at Moon Valley Nurseries, we specialize in the growing of all the best citrus. You name it, we have it! Limes, lemons, oranges, grapefruit and many more varieties can be found in our nurseries. Try them out when you visit us!
Moon Valley Nurseries has been growing all our own citrus for decades and have developed custom rootstock that is guaranteed to produce excellent tasting fruit and plentiful harvest. Moon Valley Nurseries takes no short cuts! We only grow trees from our most premium specimens, so you are always guaranteed to get the best-tasting fruit.
Oranges, we love them. These juicy, nutritious fruits can encourage a general feeling of joy, well-being, and happiness. You can have these benefits all year long growing an orange tree in the comfort of our yard. Growing your own oranges enables you to always be ready to eat a healthy, sweet orange or navel orange when you get a craving.
Lemon trees have many culinary and household uses that can make everyday life that much easier. Lemons can be used for juicing, cooking, flavoring meats and seafood as well as used to make family-friendly natural pesticides and herbicides. All our varieties are easy to grow and are drought-tolerant, so they can be planted almost anywhere. Some popular varieties that we carry include Lisbon lemons and Meyer lemons.
Drinks, desserts, seasoning, garnish, green-friendly cleaners are a just a few reasons why limes are so popular. This easy-to-grow tree starts to grow limes by mid-spring, leaving you with an abundant amount of fruit through the season. Our lime varieties also have the potential to be ever-bearing, giving you more citrus throughout the year. Check out some of our popular lime varieties, Mexican and Bearrs.
At our farms and nurseries, we thoroughly fertilize our citrus and so should you! We use our custom-made fertilizer, Moon Dust, which you can purchase at any nursery or online now! Apply once a month starting in March through October. Our fertilizer instills vigorous root growth and healthy development while growing a beautiful canopy and a delicious harvest of fruit.
Moon Dust is the best fertilizer for any citrus and will provide you and your family with plentiful fruit for years to come. Moon Valley Nurseries is the largest citrus grower in Arizona and will keep making families happy and healthy!