Re: Japanese anemones
- Subject: Re: Japanese anemones
- From: B* C*
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 18:53:34 -0500
I fall right on the border of 5a and 5b in most of the maps I've seen.
But as I said elsewhere I've not seen the new revised maps. This year I've
been more like 6a, but the lack of snow cover and repeated freeze thaw
cycles make me nervous. Still, I wanted an excuse to buy a lot of new plants
this year.
Ajuga and lamium are supposed to be thuggish-they're groundcovers. I wish I
could get lamium to grow in my garden. Of course I also wish I could get my
pinks to grow somewhere besides the driveway. That's life.
According to the gov't department concerned our zones try to take into
consideration things like snow cover in figuring what plants will survive
there-I don't know how successful that's been.
I used to have a tag line on my signature that said USDA Zone 4, since most
people on my gardening lists are American.
Bob Campbell
>From: "Nancy Coffey" <ncoffey@netrover.com>
>Hi Bob,
>
> >Nancy, although a number of people have replied already, let me assure
>you,
> >as somebody who lives further north than Bowmanville, that you will have
>no
> >trouble with your Japanese anemones due to cold.
>
>That is really encouraging. I have ordered them and am looking forward
>to seeing them bloom.
>
> >spreader, but in my area even in regularly watered gardens the runners
>are
> >easy to pull out and discard.
>
>That's true. I have lots of runners but I can't bear to discard them
>because they are so beautiful. I have given plants to every gardener I
>know. I hope that the doubles are as free with their runners. About the
>only plants in my garden that I would call 'thuggish' are lamium and
>ajuga. The rest can be removed easily if they come up where they aren't
>wanted.
>
>If you are 50 miles north of me, are you in zone 5b? I am about 10
>miles north of the lake and I've always thought it was zone 5a, but
>I've seen on this list that American zones are numbered differently.
>Should I be calling it 'Canadian zone 5a"?
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