A really good idea for a present!

I absolutely love this idea for a present that I found on the Cancer Research UK’s cards and gifts website. It’s a gift set, available by mail order, of a bottle of Gordon’s Gin and a lemon tree! My mother-in-law does enjoy a gin and tonic from time to time, so I’m so tempted by this for her for Christmas! Another thing on the same page is a Wine and Vine present set which is exactly what it sounds like.

My only concern about the lemon tree idea concerns its smell. It is supposed to be a house-tree for at least the first while you have it, and through each winter. This summer, my mother-in law plant-sat an orange tree for a month, and in the confined space it occupied indoors it reeked! It really did smell like really pongy rubber, so I’m a bit worried that this might be a common characteristic of citrus trees, and therefore that this might not be the most welcome present! Does anyone know for sure whether or not lemon trees smell bad?