Hi:

I'm looking for a global climate zone map for my bonsai page (
http://www.bonsaichat.com ).

I've been able to find N.Am, and Euro maps but no luck with
other
regions. Do other parts of the world not refer to climate
zones?


The concept of climate zones was the brainchild of someone in the
U.S. Department of Agriculture. Someone else adapted it to
Europe. I don't know if -- but doubt that -- it has been adapted
widely elsewhere.

Not much point in having one for the tropics (zone 12+), which
eliminates a great chunk of the globe. Ditto for north/south of
the Arctic/Antarctic circles.

There also are the American Horticultural Society's Heat Zone
Index (which would be MUCH more useful to me if plantsmen (and
women) would start using it in plant descriptions), and the
Sunset Zone system (which is more useful in theory than the USDA
zones, but whose basis in science is a bit fuzzy to me). Both of
these latter systems are US/North America only, as far as I know.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - The ignorant
man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the
common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of
nature. -- George Dana Bordman

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