Pacific Northwest Gardening: WA: Zone 9?, 1 by AuNatural

AuNatural wrote:
Hello all,

It's been awhile since I've been on here. I've got Spring fever bad, and shopped at The Arboretum sale on Saturday, and McLendons' Garden Center 2ce this week. Anyway, I just read an interesting article in the NY Times about the new hardiness rating. The Arborday Foundation used updated climate data from 1989-2004 and redid the '1990 USDA' ZoneMap, and now puts parts of the Puget Sound area in Zone 9.

Am I no longer in zone denial? If I'd seen this last weekend I would have bought more tenders and less natives. This opens up a whole new world of plants I can kill. LOL.

Here's the Arborday link showing the warmth migrating north: http://www.arborday.org/media/mapchanges.cfm
Here's a link to the NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/science/03flowers.html

-Au