From the article: USDA Hardiness Zone Maps
Every climate has its advantages and challenges. I love my change of seasons, but I wish I could grow citrus, olives and hedges of rosemary and lavender. What do you wish for in your garden? Daffodils, peanuts, figs? What makes you homesick or garden green with envy? Share Your Wish List
Tomatoes
- I wish I could grow tomatoes without the stinkbugs eating them up
- —Guest SUSANAME
Fig Tree
- Oh, to walk outside, and pick a juicy fresh fig off my own tree!
- —Guest Fig tree
Lilacs
- A big row of 20 ft. tall lilacs! In northern California I have 1 6 ft lilac and it's my crowning achievement. How I long for the huge lilacs that grew effortlessly in my Mom's garden.
- —Guest wendycat
Grapes
- Oh how I wish I could grow grapes. They make my day. I have tried planting some from seeds here. They started to grow but just would not mature to anything. I think it is because of the tropics. Enlighten me here. I have my backyard all fenced around. That is a ready made trellis.
- —Guest inese lewis
Jasmines...
- passifloras, mangoes, lime, plumerias, lemon verbena, coconut palm, Canary Island date palm, camellia "nuccio's pearl", agaves.
- —chunkycrone
Lemon trees
- We love fresh lemon in our sweet tea, so I would love to be able to plant a lemon tree that could overwinter outside. We live in central Alabama, so we can plant them in containers and leave them outside in summer, but we don't have a good place to put them inside once it starts cooling off in the fall.
- —hawaiirocks
Bay
- I would love to be able to grow a bay leave tree in my backyard. I hate those bay leaves we get in the grocery stores.
- —Guest Kathryn
Gardenia
- I live in south-western PA. We get extremely cold winters here. I wish I could grow gardenia's. They are such a beautiful flower and they smell wonderful.
- —Guest Janet V.
Cucumbers
- We are in cold area and would love to be able to grow cucumbers and salad vegys all year around.. Wish I knew how to grow in unheated green house.
- —Guest Louise
Camellias
- I wish I could grow camellias. They are really beautiful and the flowers seem to stay on the bushes for a very long time. I saw camellias when we visited some southern states but there are no varieties that will stand our zone 5 weather. I noticed there is at least one new variety that will grow in zone 6 so maybe they'll get a hardier one yet.
- —Brander2
Citrus and Banana trees and Peanuts
- I would love to grow citrus trees in my backyard. Lemons, limes, oranges and grapefruit. I would also like to grow an outdoor banana tree. I do grow these as container plants here in Pittsburgh, PA. I have had very little success with growing Virginia peanuts but will keep on trying.
- —Guest Zone Bender
Rambling yellow roses
- I have just spent the past two months amid stacks of books on heirloom roses and R.Banksiae Lutea is the one I love but can't own; Michigan winters would kill it. I been obsessing about how to play to the micro climate in order to grow this old rambler; super fertilize, bank the land around the north side of the roots, heaters, anything to have a shower of violet scented yellow roses over my front door!
- —Guest Beth
Berries
- blueberries, raspberries,grapes, etc. none of these do well in Fl.
- —Guest lhkievit
Crape Myrtle & Plams
- I live in Youngtown Ohio, and when my family and I traveled south, I fell for the crape myrtle bushes and further south, palm trees
- —Guest Linda
Fig tree
- Oh, to walk outside, and pick a juicy fresh fig off my own tree!
- —Guest Mrs H
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