CULT: heat zone vs. USDA zones
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- Subject: CULT: heat zone vs. USDA zones
- From: E* G*
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:41:20 EDT
Karen J. wrote:
>My first iris to bloom is the MDB Alpine Lake which opened on Easter.
>Karen
>Zone 3, northern Montana,
>about 40 miles from the Canadian border
Nothing in this eastern Zone 3 except reticulatas. We are also 40 miles from
the Canadian border but Quebec not the western provinces. It seems we have a
shorter growing season even though the winter cold is categorized as being
the same, -40 F degrees. We only got down to
-35 F this winter.
I am interested in the American Hort. Soc. heat zone map and it looks like
our area is in the purple-lav. (the second one next to Kathy Haggstrom). I
think Montana is warmer in summer than we are. We usually get more than one
day above 86 degrees here in summer so I think the bloom sequence project
should reflect the summer heat which might translate into a longer growing
season?? Just guessing, Jeff. :)
Cheers,
Ellen (no snow today - might reach 50 F - only reticulatas in bloom)
Ellen Gallagher/ Berlin, NH,USA/ Zone 3
N. White Mts. in the "Great North Woods"
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