Hardiness Zones

[xvart]

I thought it would be a good idea to post this for everyone. I got the idea from a general gardening forum that I sometimes visit for some houseplant tips. Obviously this is for those of us in the US.




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[jimscott]

East Aurora, NY is Zone 5-6.

[upper]

mine's 8-11, wth 11's not even in that map

[glider14]

here is a better map....its the USDA map. this is the map my dad goes by. hes a nursery owner that wholesales and retails. according to the above map i am in zone 7. according to this im zone 6.

http://extension.missouri.edu/webste...compressed.JPG

Alex

[Fryster]

Here's a couple good ones too..........

http://www.usna.usda.gov/Hardzone/ushzmap.html

http://www.ahs.org/pdfs/USDA_Map_3.03.pdf <-----LARGE detailed PDF

[scottychaos]

mine's 8-11, wth 11's not even in that map

I dont think you can be "8-11"
you generally have one zone..based on your warmest winter temp.
so you would probably be simply "zone 11"

unless you are actually right on a border between two zones, like jimscott,
his "zone 5-6" is accurate, because he lives on the border between those two zones.

but most people dont..most people have just one zone number.

Scot

[scottychaos]

I added some information about Hardiness zones to my page,
with maps and relevance to CPs..
its at the bottom of this page:

http://gold.mylargescale.com/Scottychaos/CP/page2.html

thanks,
Scot

[xvart]

Bruce made a good comment in this thread that is relevant to this discussion:

You have to be careful with that zone thing because zones are usually developed for winter hardiness. Most of Florida probably gets too cold in the winter for ultra-highland Neps or Heliamphoras and they're probably considered Zone 11(?) plants. But Florida's climate would probably bake those plants by May.

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