Re: Snaps was Re: [gardeners] Voting Soon?
Beulah Mae (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Fri, 10 Apr 1998 10:13:05 +0000
Margaret Lauterbach <gardeners@globalgarden.com> wrote:
> >Either zone 7a or 6b depending on who you believe. That's why I'm
> >shocked at a camellia surviving here. It must be a fluke.
> >
> >Liz
> >
> Zone 7a!!! Does anyone know where there's a good USDA zone map?
> Sunset says Lewiston and Boise are both zone 3. Our USDA zone is
> zone 6 in the riverbottom, 5 on the benches and on average of every
> ten years we all drop to zone 4. No sevens here. Margaret
The older USDA zone map shows us as a 7 and the newer one shows us as
a 6. I'm here to tell you that so far we have been a 7. Not only
have temps not dropped to 0 in the 7 or 8 years I've been here but I
can't recall when temps have dropped as low as 5. I think it hit 9
one year when I lived in Pullman.
Everyone here in the valley treats it as a zone 7. The nursery folks
who have been here a while will tell you that plants that are iffy in
zone 6 are some you'll lose once every 15 - 20 years. The garden
writer for the newspaper, who lives in Moscow, thinks we're living on
the arctic tundra.
Liz