Re: Zones (was White Flower Farm)
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- Subject: Re: Zones (was White Flower Farm)
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- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 09:00:32 -0500
M Brown
NW Oklahoma, USA
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Subject: RE: Zones
Sunset Garden zones are, of course, determined by the people at
Sunset Gardens and I tend to think of them as being "a Western thing"
so you'll have to tell me what they base them on. I'm in north
Georgia, in the Appalachian piedmont, so what zone is that?
Kate Lykins
Kate;
In the forward to the Sunset National Garden Book it says and I quote:
"What sets this book apart from others is its system of climate zones,
developed with help from university climatologists, the National Weather
Service, and agricultural extension agents across North America. While
other planting zoning schemes are based on winter minimums---- a useful
plant hardiness index---- the Sunset system recognizes that all other
factors are just as important in determining how well a particular plant
will grow in a given region. Summer highs, humidity, rainfall patterns,
elevation, land formations, length of growing seasons, and proximity to
oceans or other large bodies of water all play important roles.
The Sunset climate maps organize the United States and the southern part of
Canada into 45 climate zones. For each entry in the A to Z Plant
Encyclopedia, we note the zones where that plant grows best---.
Northern Georgia on the map on page 57 appears to be mainly zone 32 with
what appears to be higher mountain elevations starting about half way
between Atlanta and the northern border in a rough triangle is zone 36.
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