Re: Hardiness - Canadian project

I sent similar information today to Trillium-L, another shade
gardening list, so if you belong to it, I apologize for the
duplication.

Canada is in the process of recording what grows where, in both
Canada and the northern U.S. - the Landscape Analysis and
Applications Section of the Canadian Forest Service encourages
individual gardeners to send data, and of course
institutions like botanic gardens have done so.  I have registered, with
my latitude and longitude (fortunately we're sailors, so figuring that out
was easy).  Only plants grown for at least 3 years can be entered.  The
data requested includes length of time grown, degree of shelter given
(from against the house wall to varying distances from the house), and the
happiness of the plant with where you've got it growing.  This information
is all given by check boxes, but there is room for adding comments.

 Canada's Plant Hardiness Site - Going Beyond
the Zones, has some links to sign up and enter your plant information.
http://g4.glfc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/ph_main.pl

So far, there have been only 3 reports on trilliums, 2 on Arum
italicum, 1 each on Hepatica americana and nobilis, 2 on Actaea
rubra, and so on.  Lots more
reporting to be done, as they require several dozen reports before
they generate a map for any particular species.  So far, only 4 trees
have made it on to a map.  (Balsam fir is the one with most reports
so far.)  The database does not include a lot of the plants I'm
growing, but they will add species to it later, presumably when
they've received a lot of information on the ones already included.

Diane Whitehead  Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
maritime zone 8
cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually)
sandy soil
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index