Play around with this map to find your personal Zone Hardiness

[hedgehog]

http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/InteractiveMap.aspx

You can zoom in on your address!

[Sentath]

1. Nifty

Maybe next year...

[hedgehog]

2. The map shows the zone changing a mile or so up my road.

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

[JDPriestly]

3. Wow! It found our area. 10a. That's hot!

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]

4. I'm in 10A also

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]

5. I think I am on the other side of the country.

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.

[Kaleva]

6. Cool! I'm in zone 5b.