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Re: [GWL]: Golden bamboo

In a message dated 1/19/2002 3:32:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, BrookBarb@aol.com writes:


I'd always had it in my head that NY was zone 5. Just checked the USDA map, and NY City, along with most of the lower Hudson Valley (not to mention Long Island, Andrew), is listed as 6, with the balance of New York State 5.

All this shows, btw, is how over-relient we tend to be on the zone system, which actually is almost useless for meaningful growing information. NY City and Kentucky, for instance, are both zone 6. Anybody out there really think that season lengths, daylight conditions, and overall weather patterns are at all similar between those two?


Brook
Friends,
I hate to take this discussion on-list if it doesn't belong there--and please tell me if we should take it off list--but several of you have responded via the list and the information is interesting. I live in Woodstock, NY in the mid Hudson Valley at the top of a small mountain and I can tell you from experience my immediate area is zone 5, bordering on 4. I have to warn the nurseries when to send my stuff so I don't get it too early. I wouldn't says the USDA zone system is useless, but this discussion is a reminder that it is only one of many considerations. Thanks to all of you who are helping with information on the hardiness of golden bamboo, including Lon, who has forwarded my query to a friend, who is a specialist in bamboo. Regards, Andrea 
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