John: The new USDA Zone map is on the way. I am copying a paragraph for our June 2005 nursery email update about the map. I'm just back from a June 1 meeting with scientists from the USDA-Agricultural Research Service to discuss progress on the new USDA Hardiness Zone Map. While there are still a few kinks to work out, great progress has been made, and we are looking at a hopeful completion by years' end. The new map will be searchable by zip code or location and will give 30-year average minimum temperatures, accurate down to 1 square meter. Progress was slowed a bit since their top statistician was borrowed by the Department of Defense to help find Osama. Not to worry, Hardiness Zone Map files are still being sent back and forth from Iraq. At 10:41 AM 10/27/2005 -0700, you wrote: > >Dear All: > >I wonder what your opinions are about the USDA Climate Zones. I also >wonder why such zones cannot be linked with our zip codes, or postal >zones. Would they not then be better defined? Cheers, John E. Bryan >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > Tony Avent Plant Delights Nursery @ Juniper Level Botanic Garden 9241 Sauls Road Raleigh, NC 27603 USA Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F USDA Hardiness Zone 7b email tony@plantdelights.com website http://www.plantdel.com/ phone 919 772-4794 fax 919 772-4752 "I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself...at least three times" - Avent