RE: [GWL]: AHS Heat Zone Map

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• Subject: RE: [GWL]: AHS Heat Zone Map
• From: Larry Hodgson horticom@total.net>
• Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:39:22 -0400
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> Re: AHS Heat Zone Map

> Applying the heat zones to individual plants is a challenge.  As of right
> now, I know of only two books that list them.  One is "Heat Zone Gardening,"
> by Mark Cathey, father of the heat zone map, and the other is "Great Garden
> Plants", an AHS publication.

You can add to that my book, Perennials for Every Purpose (Rodale Press, 2000). I find the heat zones of zero use... in cooler climates, but of great importance from about zone 7-8 South. They help explain a lot of plant failures in the South.

By the way, the reason you won't be seeing them used that much for a long time is that... the AHS charges publishers for their use. My publisher (who, thank heavens, always fact checks everything) asked the AHS for heat zones for many plants I had no heat zone rating for and had to pay to get the information. Now they will no longer let me use them: it apparently costs too much!

Just thought you'd like to know!

Larry

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