After looking at the chocobo preview, it seems like gardening might get a bit more popular. The issue is that larger FCs still only have 3 garden plots at most, and tiny FCs might not even have a house to do gardening. So a lot of people are locked out of gardening.

I suggest that a community garden be added. It will be an area similar to the housing wards where players pay for patches of land. Maybe it'll be rows of garden spots and each player can pay for like 10 spots or something. Only the player will have access to the spots they rented, but he can see other peoples plots and other people can see his just like how the current housing works. It can be decorated like how the fields around the botanist's guild looks. Or maybe a greenhouse or something.