Adding some smidgen of hope to my attempt to grow lemons and limes in the Northwest, a Seattle Times gardening writer yearns for the Meyer Lemons and Bearss Limes of her mother’s Palo Alto home. These are the exact same varieties that are currently enjoying the warmth of a Pacific Northwest summer in our front yard. Both have taken well to the uncharacteristic heat and are producing flowers and, as I refer to them, “limelets” and “lemonlets.” When the weather turns, I will bring them indoors and all three of us will sit under “gro-lites” to tough out our first Seattle winter. Hopefully none of us will droop.