Your Plant Hardiness Zone (growing, palm, Hydrangea, trees)
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For maybe 2 months we will normally see 5f to -5F temp variations. For 1 or 2 nights in January, we see it dip to -20F. Usually the second or third week of January.
I bring our rosemary, aloe, citrus trees, figs, olives, pomegranates, Sweet Bay laurels indoors for winter. It was one of my chores this past week.
Interestingly peaches are okay and can stay outside. It is very site specific though. We have friends who do really well with their peaches.
My attempts with peaches outside have not been successful. The same goes with my attempts with Sochi Tea.
For maybe 2 months we will normally see 5f to -5F temp variations. For 1 or 2 nights in January, we see it dip to -20F. Usually the second or third week of January.
I bring our rosemary, aloe, citrus trees, figs, olives, pomegranates, Sweet Bay laurels indoors for winter. It was one of my chores this past week.
Interestingly peaches are okay and can stay outside. It is very site specific though. We have friends who do really well with their peaches.
My attempts with peaches outside have not been successful. The same goes with my attempts with Sochi Tea.
Do those plants grow inside during the winter? I used to try to keep rosemary alive OUTside all winter until I read somewhere that it's impossible in New England. I saw a live rosemary plant outside somewhere around Christmas one time but it died during the freezing cold of January.
Do those plants grow inside during the winter? I used to try to keep rosemary alive OUTside all winter until I read somewhere that it's impossible in New England. I saw a live rosemary plant outside somewhere around Christmas one time but it died during the freezing cold of January.
I have most of them in 5-gallon buckets.
I bring them inside after the first soft frost, but before the first hard freeze. They will stay indoors until spring.
I live in bandon, Oregon on the upper end of the southern Oregon coast which according to the new USDA maps is zone 9b. the maritime/oceanic climate here has very wet (around 50") cool winters with fairly rare frosts and very dry and cool summers (a "warm" day is around 70f.) so "our" 9b is probably very different from most anybody else's "normal" 9b. the climate is great for growing rhododendrons, azaleas, camellias, hydrangeas, fuchsias, and Japanese maples but I am also able to grow a wide variety of stuff from Australia (eucalyptus, acacias), new Zealand (new Zealand "flax" and cordyline australis), south America (nothofagus, embothrium) and mexico (pines, oaks) plus other weird stuff from other parts of the world.
I live in bandon, Oregon on the upper end of the southern Oregon coast which according to the new USDA maps is zone 9b. the maritime/oceanic climate here has very wet (around 50") cool winters with fairly rare frosts and very dry and cool summers (a "warm" day is around 70f.) so "our" 9b is probably very different from most anybody else's "normal" 9b. the climate is great for growing rhododendrons, azaleas, camellias, hydrangeas, fuchsias, and Japanese maples but I am also able to grow a wide variety of stuff from Australia (eucalyptus, acacias), new Zealand (new Zealand "flax" and cordyline australis), south America (nothofagus, embothrium) and mexico (pines, oaks) plus other weird stuff from other parts of the world.
I never would have through Bandon was 9b. My grandparents lived in Coos Bay when I was a kid. Your 9b is different then my 9b in the Sacramento Valley.
I agree. the 2 climates are in many ways very different-- the only similarity is in the low temp numbers which is basically what USDA is all about. while the moisture patterns for both places are roughly similar (winter moisture/summer drought) the summer temperatures are very different sac very hot and bandon very not, LOL. OTOH, bandon's temperature and moisture patterns are rather more similar to coastal northern California---crescent city to eureka for example. it is at least in part because of the lumping of essentially very dissimilar climates in the "same" zone that sunset magazine devised it's very different gardening zone map which places sacramento in sunset 14 and bandon in sunset 5. that said, we can grow a number of similar types of plants that can be grown in sac---agapanthus, bottlebrush, acacia, eucalyptus, some palm trees agaves ,redwoods, evergreen oaks (different types of bottlebrush and eucalyptus and agaves in many cases to be sure) once again, the 9b rating for bandon is from the "new and improved" 2012 USDA map and i'm not especially invested in it's absolute validity or usefullness.
I live in the Austin area which is 8b/9a. Warm and Subtropical.
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