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Play around with this map to find your personal Zone Hardiness (Original Post) hedgehog Jul 2012 OP
Nifty Sentath Jul 2012 #1
The map shows the zone changing a mile or so up my road. hedgehog Jul 2012 #2
Wow! It found our area. 10a. That's hot! JDPriestly Aug 2012 #3
I'm in 10A also Ineeda Aug 2012 #4
I think I am on the other side of the country. JDPriestly Aug 2012 #5
Cool! I'm in zone 5b. Kaleva Aug 2012 #6

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
2. The map shows the zone changing a mile or so up my road.
Tue Jul 31, 2012, 12:19 PM
Jul 2012

This spring, I saw magnolias get frost burned on one side of the line, but not on the other!

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
3. Wow! It found our area. 10a. That's hot!
Sat Aug 4, 2012, 04:02 AM
Aug 2012

All tropical fruit trees flourish in plant hardiness Zone 10. Perennials are also very successful in this gardening zone. Hardiness zones are useful but heat zones, air moisture and rainfall distributions are also important and need to be taken into consideration, especially in Zone 10.

The following shrubs thrive in this gardening zone: Bougainvillea spectabilis (bougainvillea), Cassia fistula (golden shower), Ficus elastica (rubber plant). There are a plethora of other shrubs that also flourish in this kind weather zone.

Popular trees grown in Zone 10 include: Corymbia citriodora (lemon-scented gum), Ensete ventricosum (Abyssinian-banana), and Roystonea regia (royal palm).

If I lived in Zone 10, I would eat off the land. All vegetables and fruits (except apples) love the sunshine and lack of cold temperatures offered in this plant hardiness zone. The list of what can be grown in this plant hardiness zone is extensive.

http://voices.yahoo.com/the-three-ts-gardening-zone-10-5666310.html

What's your zone? What can you grow?

Ineeda

(3,626 posts)
4. I'm in 10A also
Mon Aug 6, 2012, 10:45 AM
Aug 2012

My ornamentals grow like weeds! Trees on my property are live oaks, a water oak, cedars, a ficus, several native palms, and a very old sea grape. I have quite a few shrubs, too, very little grass, and no edibles. There's a massive mango tree on a neighbor's corner lot, many varieties of citrus in the neighborhood, several papayas, an interesting cherry (no idea the variety), but no actual veggie patches. Too hot for that!

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
5. I think I am on the other side of the country.
Mon Aug 6, 2012, 06:16 PM
Aug 2012

I grow certain vegetables in the summer and others in the winter.

I mostly garden in pots. Water is in short supply where I live, very short supply, so what I can grow is limited. Tomatoes do really well.

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