Re: OT-BIO:Colleen Modra
From: Dean Sliger <deanslgr@kode.net>
CModra@amersham.com.au wrote:
> From: <CModra@amersham.com.au>
>
> Hello from Australia,
>
> I'm very new to this online stuff.
> My husband Les and I run an iris and daylily nursery in the Adelaide Hills of
> South Australia. Nice deep sandy loam, pH6.1 Frosts for about 7 months of the
> year but rarely snow. Wet winters and dry summers. Whats the equiv USA zone? Our
> summer max temp is about 40 degrees C and our winter daytime max is usually over 8
> degrees. The heaviest frosts would be about 10 degrees of frost. So we can grow
> most anything.
That would probably equate to USDA Zone 8, possibly even 9. There are a lot of
flaws with the Zones because they are based on average annual temps and don't take a
thousand other things into account. Many climates -- sounds like yours might be one
of them -- fall into an "other" category.
Sounds like I'm going to have to move there and investigate; it may take me the rest
of my life... ;-)
Dean Sliger
Warren, MI, USA
Zone 6b
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