Re: Zone systems was Re: White Flower Farm codes

Connie,

Well, the AHS heatzone book published by Time/Life is out:
"Heat-zone Gardening: How to choose plants that thrive in your region'
warmest weather" by Dr. H. Marc Cathey (List: $24.95) I ordered my copy
from Amazon (Price: $17.47): http://www.amazon.com last week and it came in
yesterday.

The book is not terribly large (192 pages) about 8 inches by 10 inches. The
first 65 pages are an excellent introduction to the concepts used to
properly select plants for a garden habitat and are well written and well
illustrated. I was pleasantly surprised to find a concrete definition for a
full sun site (minimum of 6 hours between 10am and 4pm with 3 hours in the
hotter areas being the equivalent). The remainder of the book is devoted to
plant profiles: typically 4 per page, each illustated with a photograph.
Book contains a list of sources for native plants, bibliography and a quite
decent index.

I found the book well designed, interesting and potentially useful (though
I was hoping for something more comprehensive). I'm glad that I bought it.
I showed it to friends in the trade today and they plan to buy copies also.

I got my new Monrovia catalog the other week. I was disappointed to find
that the AHS heat zones were NOT in it as I had been informed.

If you want me to repost a description of the Bailey's ecoregion system,
drop me a note.

Beth Matney <bmatney@mail.snider.net)
 USDA zone 7b (min.temp 5F)
 AHS zone 8 (90-120 days > 86F)
 Sunset zone 33
 Koppen climate group Cf
 Bailey's Ecoregion 231/M231 -
   Subtropical Division
   Southeastern Mixed Forest Province/Ouachita Mixed Forest

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At 06:45 AM 3/10/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Beth,
>Thank you for the informative update..I would be very interested in
>learning as much as possible about these new ratings and appreciate your
>offer of sharing these with us.Please send.
>Thanks,
>Connie Hoy

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