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Re: re: zip code zones

The maps don't work very well.  The Nat Arb map doesn't expand enough to differentiate complex areas.  Using my zip code (98146), the Nat Gard Assn site puts me in zone 7b, but the actual map has me in 8b.
 
These tools need to be more refined and more accurate.
 
Stephen Lamphear
The Lazy Gardener
Seattle, WA
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Subject: [GWL] re: zip code zones

National Gardening Association has zip code finder for winter hardiness
zones.

http://www.garden.org/b2b/zipzone/index.asp

Missouri Botanical Garden Kemper Center has alpha listings of numerous
plants with some zone (and other) info.

http://ridgwaydb.mobot.org/kemperweb/plantfinder/Alpha.asp

National Arboretum has a map

http://www.usna.usda.gov/Hardzone/ushzmap.html

HTH

Barbara M. Martin

Mid-Atlantic Garden Report:
http://garden.garden.org/regional/report/allreports/13
My Bonsai Potato Photos  http://www.suite101.com/topic_page.cfm/253/3890


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