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Carrie, I'm with you, more than you know. Two years ago I moved from Doss's locale (central coast CA) to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. I went from agapanthus to astillbe, avocado to arbotvitae (and that's just the "As.") My question is: why can't we just fold the country in half, occasionally, and bring the two coasts together?
Anyway, great article.
Carrie, You are so correct. Zone envy. I am so guilty, but I have a bit of a way to cheat, a passive solar GH that does have a avocado tree from a pit that DH tossed into one of the big planters out there. Lush and huge, but alas, after 15 years, no avocados, but it is pretty. Cold, clear here today, but no snow, but no oranges either. But a Meyer's lemons coming soon in the GH. I hope my, also much beloved, Antoinette's are happy and are soon to make me smile for their very being come spring. They started on May 11th last year. Not soon enough! Thank you for the article. Wonderful pictures. My grass is still sort of green. Patti
Great article Carrie - and you nailed it on the head! I remember wanting tulips and a veggie garden when I lived in Florida, and now that I'm in Indiana I want my Firecracker bush, gingers, bird of paradise and orchids! Perhaps the answer is to live in the greenhouse?? :-P
Sorry, everybody, as I said, we are still working out some minor technical bugs. Well, OK, they're MAJOR technical bugs. But when we start to market the remote control for zones, I'll come to you for the first start-up money!! Laughing out loud, Carrie
PS Seandor, last I checked, you WANTED to live here. Maybe not exactly here, though.
Ha Ha...cute Carrie! You need one of those "Wardrobes"...only to a warm clime, not the snow those kids encountered. I do miss my spring bulbs, but when I think about driving in the snow, I am very glad that I live in the tropics!
