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Originally Posted by David

My wife and I both have brown thumbs but the only thing we've managed not to kill is a fig tree. It's appeared to die a couple times after freezes but then it comes right back. If we could just keep the squirrels from taking a bite of almost every green fig before it ripens we'd have a ton of figs!

The 2 secrets of growing things by Masraum.

1 Let Mother Nature handle it. If she kills it, it's her fault, not yours.
2 If a plant can't handle our cold, heat, rain, or drought, then that's the plant's fault, not yours. Plant things that thrive in our environment. If bad weather kills it, then it just wasn't meant to be.

Plants that are native to our area are likely to handle our heat, cold, rain, and droughts. Or stuff that you see growing EVERYWHERE around here are also good bets.

Don't assume that because they are selling it at Lowes or HD that it grows in our environment.