Beautiful. My mother always grew them and, growing up in Indiana, they were grown indoors (they're not fans of cold). Then I moved to L.A. and my first day on the job, I see a row of African Violets planted outside the building. I was just stunned.
We had a grapefruit tree in one backyard and a key lime tree in another in the places where we lived. Never got an orange tree sadly, but there were lots of opportunities to get fresh oranges. Avocados too.
In L.A.?! What part? Maybe down by the coast? 🤔 My part of the city is just too hot and dry in the summer. We get down to single digit humidity when the Santa Anas roll through, and well over 100 degrees a lot of days in the summer. I would have thought we're just too warm for them here.
Alternately, they leave them there until they die and replant them. That just occurred to me and it's the sort of wasteful thing the entertainment industry does.
Yeah, I'm leaving a lot behind too. It's fine; platforms come and go. Once a couple of communities I follow over there have active Lemmy equivalents I won't be back much at all.