RE: which zone is best!
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: RE: which zone is best!
- From: E* G* <e*@moose.ncia.net>
- Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 21:53:29 -0700 (MST)
>If I understand correctly, the zone is based on the average lowest
>temperature. It does not really provide information about the highest
>summer temperatures.
While the harsh winters in Indiana make whole
>categories of rose growing impossible, the high summer heat, and strong
>direct sun kills other types of plants, like pansies, sweet pea, etc...
> In addition the unpredictable freeze/thaw throughout the
>winter brings other problems. Judy Sylvester Zone 5
I agree totally with the premise that the Zone really doesn't portend
much in the flower growing department....in Zone 3, we have a decid-
edly shorter growing season but that is our one drawback. As I have
mentioned before on this list, we do not experience the freeze/thaw
winter that others experience (we stay frozen) and most importantly,
we have a good snow cover since before Thanksgiving even when we had
some warm weather in Dec....we have so much snow that it never melts
away.
Ellen Gallagher
Ellen Gallagher "The smell of freshly dug
e_galla@moose.ncia.net earth is perfume to the
Lancaster, New Hampshire, USA gardener."
USDA Zone 3
