Re: FW: Schotia brachypetala and allspice -- NEW ZONE

Zone 12 simply bottoms out 10 degrees warmer than Zone
11: 50F. Thus, large areas of lowland Hawai'i, Puerto
Rico, USVI, etc. would fall in this zone. I suppose
lowland PR & American Samoa might even fall into a
Zone 13! (>60F)
Jason Dewees
San Francisco, Zone 10

--- Joe Seals <gardenguru@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I must be out of the loop!
>    
>   "Zones 10-12"?
>    
>   When was a Zone 12 delineated?
>    
>   I thought Zone 11 was designed a few years back
> for those few areas in the U.S. (extreme sw San
> Diego and extreme southern Florida) that were
> totally frost free.
>    
>   What's more mild than "frost free"?
>    
>   Joe
> 
> Reid Family <pkssreid@comcast.net> wrote:
>   
> Nan:
> Botanica does list the allspice as zones 10-12,
> which would certainly
> mean no frost. The Schotia shows zones 9-12, which
> would mean a light
> cover if real frosts were coming,
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