It sounds like you looked at the tree type Meyers. They were 3-4ft tall and looked just as you described. The patio Meyers were not with the rest of the fruit trees, they were under the canopy just outside of the main building on metal racks by the annual flowers. At least you got a fruit tree now for your patio farm.
I asked that man working there to take me to those patio Improved Meyer Lemon trees and that’s where he took me. Perhaps he took me to the wrong place, he did say they were getting more in. At any rate, I’m glad to have the orange tree rather than lemon.
Hmm, I was outside where the annual flowers were as the herbs were out there, too, and I looked at the annual flowers and think I would have seen patio trees if they had been there. I can tell you the place was packed with cars and trucks, too, and there were people buying stuff right and left. Does where I was outside sound like where the lemon trees were?