Re: usda zones

> Does this mean that people have been using the usda cold zones to attempt
> to describe summer conditions?  I had previously assumed that these were
> plants that required a winter chill, which here in zone 9 we have a hard
> time providing.

Yes, because there wasn't anything else available.  I'm in my own Sunset
zone, which is odd (in other words, in only covers Central Texas).  I
have no affinity to other areas of the country -- either east or west.
Of course, this means that if it SAYS it'll work in zone 30, it ought to
be a sure thing; but I believe that they are too conservative and a lot
of things that would truly grow well here are not listed as hardy here,
simply because it's easy to overlook one little pocket with NO
relationship to other zones for comparison purposes.
-- 
Amy Moseley Rupp (amyr@austx.tandem.com)  Austin, TX, USDA z8b, Sunset z30
Amy Moseley (amy@ece.utexas.edu) Graduate Student in Software Engineering
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