Great garden design inspiration for creating your own outdoor oasis. Royal horticultural society and us sunset western garden book systems. A hardiness zone is a geographic area defined to encompass a certain range of climatic. Hilltops and valley floors of interior southern california. For more information, consult sunsets national garden bookand western garden book. A photo gallery shows the wests most innovative gardens, from alledibles front yards to stylish waterwise and firewise gardens to living walls and green roofsall with ideas you can use. Thermal belts around southern californias interior valleys growing season. Rain comes in summer as well as in the cooler seasons. The book is packed with simple and easy to implement ideas for turning the backyard into. Northern and central california coast range thermal belts. Egg packagingplant markersanimal 2little pigspretty picturesbook. With cold air draining to lower elevations, winter lows typically run from 32 degrees to 19 degrees f0 degrees to 7 degrees c. What sunset actually did was to create their own zone map that. For northeastern california, click the smaller image below left.
In northern and interior areas, lower elevations fall into zone 2, higher areas into zone 1. Plants from the mediterranean and near eastern regions thrive here. Theyre listed and expounded on in the sunset western garden book a. Organic gardeninggardening tipsgardening for beginnersgardening booksgardening from seedsgardening servicessmall space. Small garden style is impeccably written and beautifully photographed.
The 21 plant climate zones provides a key starting point in identifying and selecting plants that can. Climate zone maps and growingseason graphs for all regions of the west including alaska and hawaii. If your garden gets reliable snow cover which insulates plants, youll be able to grow. The climate zones are far more useful than those issued by the usda, the plant lists are. This midcentury homes revamped yard has a pool, an outdoor dining area, and kidfriendly features. All about growing zones sunset zones microclimates. Like zone 15, this region is dominated by maritime air, but its winters are milder on average. Spring is here and the garden chores are piling up like last seasons leaves. Sunsets climate zone maps take all these factors into account, unlike the familiar hardiness zone maps devised by the u. High desert areas of arizona, new mexico, west texas, oklahoma panhandle, and southwest kansas growing season. Five small water plants for containers nows the time for planning a container water garden and choosing small plants to go in it.
The ultimate gardening guide sunset western garden book paper the editors of sunset on. Heres how to tackle your growing todo list january 23, 2018. This castro valley, california, eichler gems upgrades make it safe for the whole family. Periodic inundation, area ponds following storm events 6 to 12 depth for 24 48 hours and compost amended sand soil. Northern and central california coast range thermal belts growing season.
Sunset climate zones home climate zones a plants performance is governed by the total climate. A guide to western climate zones for gardening sunset magazine. When rebecca sweets grandmother relocated from leafy mountain view to lake tahoe in the 1960s, she brought along her sunset western garden book, determined to continue gardening in. Sunset zones for california california native landscape designs.
My vegetable gardening attempts have been so hitormiss in the last few. Sunset climate zones sunset western garden collection. Zone maps also dont tell us about microclimates, which are small areas with. A guide to western climate zones for gardening sunset.
How to design an oddlyshaped backyard home guides sf gate. Best performing perennials for usda zone 2 canadian zone garden design. You can also find this information in the sunset western garden book. The far northern portion on the central interior of the mainland have some of the coldest zones zones 5, 4, and small area of zone 3 and often have much. These zone descriptions will guide you in choosing the right plants for your garden. Landscape plants california gardens land design publishing.
Coldest winters in the west and western prairie states. While usda plant zones are handy, they are limited in usefulness i was in zone 5 in the sw. Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 6a through10a. Sunset climate zones map the total climate governing a plants performance length of growing season, timing and amount of rainfall, winter lows, summer highs, humidity. As in zone 18, rainy winters and hot, dry summers are the norm. For more information, consult sunsets national garden book and western garden book. Usda hardiness zones map, sunset climate zones and other. Garden landscaping and design ideas sunset magazine. Sunset also has maps broken down into smaller sections of california. The usda hardiness zone map was developed to help gardeners compare their climates with the climate a particular plant is known to grow well in. You are usda zone sunset zone plants are normally categori. Chilly even snowdusted weather rules from late nov.
Inexpensive mini greenhouses i might need this when we finally get to build our raised. The sunset garden climate zones look at our gardens in a different way, with a different set of numbers. Sunset zones for climatic differences in california. So we here in hawaii are a small group with a myriad of unique plants unheard of in. Arizona climate zones and their application to growing plants. Winters are cold lows run from 3 degrees to 34 degrees f19 degrees to 37 degrees c, but less so than in zone 1. Hardiness zones, heat zones, sunset zones and microclimates are used to determine. For more information, consult sunset s national garden book and western garden book.