Re: USDA Climate Zones

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That's what makes garden writing for SoCal so much fun and such a  
challenge. You can always tell as you read various publications that carry  garden 
articles and apply them for SoCal as well as other areas of the country  that 
the writer isn't familiar with SoCal. I've gardened in the desert, Inland  
Empire, coastal and Central Coast for more years than I care to count and 
I'm  learning new things every day.

Jerry

Gerald Burke
Garden Writer

In a message dated 7/26/2011 10:55:17 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
Catriona@CatrionaTudorErler.com writes:

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 

Catriona Tudor  Erler
965 Pintail Lane
Charlottesville, VA 22903
434  953-6780
Catriona@CatrionaTudorErler.com
www.CatrionaTudorErler.com

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