USDA Climate Zones

**C* E* <C*@CatrionaTudorErler.com>**

The USDA Climate Zones are east-coast centric.  For example, many plants listed as hardy up to zones 8  or 9 actually will grow happily in coastal southern California, which is zone 10.  But it won't grow in Florida, so it's not given a zone 10 listing.  I find the White Flower Farm website and catalog very helpful for more accurate zone information (at least for the plants they carry) because they list plants as hardy in, say, USDA Zone 4 - 8 S, 4 - 10 W.  
Catriona
On Jul 26, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Cathy Wilkinson Barash wrote:

> I had received an answer to my query about folks using the AHS heat zone map that said that AHS was about to discontinue its use. I checked with David Ellis and got this reply 

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