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gardenwife Newark, OH(Zone 5b) Jun 22, 2001

This tickled me. I found it when doing a search on the USDA zone mapping system: http://www.boldweb.com/greenweb/g_zoneus.htm
Their main page has to do with organic gardening: http://www.boldweb.com/greenweb/g_files.htm#g_menu

:o) Kimberley

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Lilith Durham, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Jun 26, 2001

how do the zones apply to europe? does anyone out there know? i'd like to know what zones would apply to the uk and the rest of europe so when somebody tells me this will grow well in zone 5 for example, would it grow well here.

'ta

lil

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gardendragon Ladysmith, BC(Zone 8a) Jun 28, 2001

Lilith, I think you are right about you being in the equivelant of Zone 8. I live in British Columbia, Canada the West Coast of Canada and we are considered Zone 8a.

Our weather is very like the weather in the southern part of Britian (I had relatives around Worthing & Brighton, they sometimes have roses blooming in December) We also sometimes have roses blooming in December.

The zoning is very confusing. I have stopped taking any notice of zoning, I have banana plants growing in my garden - supposedly zone 9 & 10 only!

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Baa Jun 29, 2001

Gardendragon is right the UK apart from the far far north of Scotland falls into zone 8. The thing you have to remember is you cannot always equate our climate to American one. Our winters are less harsh even in zone 8 and our summers are no where near the temperature zone 8 gets to and of course our rainfall is much much higher.

The best way to find what kind of plants will actually grow in your area is to look at local gardens, private and public.

I live in in Hampshire in southern England and yes we have roises blooming in December most years.

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