Re: CULT: Hardiness Zones
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: Hardiness Zones
- From: J* C*
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 22:36:56 GMT
>There has been a lot of talk about hardiness zones, off and on, having to
>do
>with the relative zones between the US and Australia. This afternoon
>(afternoon already--who would have thought...), I stumbled across a page
>that is very helpful in this regard. It shows the hardiness zones in
>Australia, and compares them to the USDA zones. You can find it at
>http://www.anbg.gov.au/hort.research/zones.html
Thanks Steve, but this only makes me more convinced that this information is
relatively useless. I'm in the green zone, right down the lower right.
Central Australia (Alic Springs, etc) is also in the green zone, infact,
most of the continent is.
They mention that there are so many other factors that contribute to
differences (altitude, proximity to the sea, etc) This doesn't even take
into account microclimates.
I don't see this zoning system as being particularly helpful when trying to
draw paralles between someone elses garden and my own.
I suppose it is much more relevant in the U.S. when you are comparing say,
Colorado, with Florida, but comparing a zone 8 with a zone 9 is rather
futile, unless you know a whole lot more details about individual gardens.
Cheers, Jan clark, Australia (zone 9 for what it's worth)
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