Re: [gardeners] New hardiness zones -- get the fan

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I can't read the map but putting in my zip says heat hardiness 8 9. 
We've always been 9b before so that is a cooler zone to me.

George

Margaret Lauterbach wrote:
> AHS says it's based on temps between July, 1986 and March 2002.  That 
> should have picked up our -25 in 1990.  Margaret L
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>> Egad!  They've moved me to zone 6!  They used to have me in zone 5 and 
>> I've
>> always had to move down to zone 4 when buying plants to get them to 
>> survive.
>> Granted, we haven't had a zone 4 winter for several years and this past
>> winter our low was the lowest it has been since this drought started, 
>> only
>> down to -11.  I wonder if they have based this map only on the past 4 
>> or 5
>> year's weather?
>>
>> Terry
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