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Perennial mums are zoned for zone 3-9. Although it really depends on the cultivar as to its hardiness.
Florist Mums are not as hardy as others.

Mulch them and create a microclimate to shelter them from winter winds. If you can’t plant them on the south side of your house, build a modified version of the shrub shelters used for winter protection.You can build shrub shelters out of natural materials.
Or you can build an A-frame (or “snow frame”) out of store-bought lumber. Don’t prune in fall: existing branches offer the roots protection.
Prune in Spring.

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Its either this one if not just keep watching ^^

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I don’t know of any plants. I hang glass wasp traps (or you can make your own but the glass ones are really pretty) I bait mine with fermented honey and water, but you can use jam or fruit juice. If you get the traps out early and keep them going all summer, you may be able to keep them from nesting too close to your house. Also, if you see them coming and going from holes in the ground, you can cut plastic 12-ounce water bottles in half and screw the halves into the ground over each hole. Your yard will look like a bubble garden but the wasps will all be gone in a few days. The glass tops from big Yankee candles are also good for this.

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The Brunfelsia pauciflora originates in Brazil and Peru. This means that they flourish in a tropical climate.They can stand a temperature of 50 degrees F in the winter and survive at
41 degrees F for short periods.They like a moist atmosphere and being well watered in the summer but must be shaded from hot sun.In the winter they should be kept fairly dry. In Zone 10 the winter temperatures can go to 22 degrees F with the lowest recorded temperatur around 6 degrees F.
The zones 13, 15-17and 20-24 are suitable for Brunfelsias.

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“Jerry Baker, America’s Master Gardener” is one of my favorite gardening websites. One of the things you can find out on the site is what your gardening zone is based on your zip code. Here is a link to the page:

http://www.jerrybaker.com/index.asp?PageAction=HARDINESSZONES

Good luck with your gardening.

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I’ve been growing food organically in the San Francisco bay area (zone 9b) for 26 years, and I’m putting everything I’ve learned about organic gardening into a web site, http://www.grow-it-organically.com

Organic gardening is about feeding the soil to feed the plants, and growing robust vegetables that can fight off pests and still produce high yields.

Pictures on the site are from my garden. Some pages you might find useful:

http://www.grow-it-organically.com/attracting-beneficial-insects.html
http://www.grow-it-organically.com/facts-about-soil.html
http://www.grow-it-organically.com/how-to-grow-vegetables.html

I hope this helps!

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This question has gone six days without an answer. Here is my favorite gardening website:

http://www.gardenguides.com/

There are hundreds of thousands of websites devoted to gardening. A Yahoo search for “southern gardening” (include the quotation marks) and other similarly worded searches will turn up more site than you care to explore.

Good luck with your search.

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Http://www.usna.usda.gov/Hardzone/ushzmap.html
Hopefully this link will help you. Just follow the directions at the top.

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The new map:

http://www.arborday.org/media/zones.cfm

Interesting to click the link that says “See changes from 1990 to 2006”. Most maps show the zones using 1990 info. This one is the only one updated.

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Put your zip code here….

Http://www.gardenweb.com/zones/zip.cgi

that will give you your zone…..

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The answer to your Q is too large for this site. In your zone almost anything will grow. The World is your oyster. Get a good book like I did, there are dozens

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Zone 11 or higher.

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Probably because Halifax and NS is situated close to the Gulf Stream.

May be the soil pH is incapable of supporting Rhododendrons.
They being an ericacious plant require acidic soils, below a pH4.

As I am located in Old Scotia [Scotland] I do not have any real experience on Ontario soils or climate.

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The only time I wouldn’t is from about Aug. 1st. – Christmas. Any other time is fine. They will store winter hardiness by processes going on in the foliage in late summer- fall. Also, pruning encourages carbohydrates upward into the top of the plant. Plants going into winter need to be moving carbohydrates downward into the roots.

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A ‘zone’ is a number with the smaller numbers being more tropical (near or on the equator) and they get higher the farther north you go. These numbers are given when purchasing plants, to tell you whether the plant will grow well in the zone you live in. To find your gardening zone, you can do a search for your area, or the closest large city. Then do a second search to find the plants that will do well in your zone. There is another way to find out which plants will do well, though … Take a walk around your neighborhood and talk to the gardeners you’ll see … Because I have yet to meet a gardener who wouldn’t share everything they know with someone who is truly curious, and who wants to become a good gardener. I know … I am a long time gardener who now lives in a different state … I take walks, not look on the internet, because my neighbors are the best at what grows well here!

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Apparently, due to the “warming trend” AKA global warming, the zones have been updated. You can find your precise gardening zone for heat tolerance at the American Horticulture Society website (http://www.ahs.org/publications/heat_zone_finder.htm) using your zip code. As well, the Colorado State University website contains some info as well (http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/CoopExt/4DMG/Garden/zones.htm). HGTV also has some information about this subject (http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/gl_seasonal_zones/article/0,,HGTV_3631_1399487,00.html). Good luck!

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One thing to consider when planting banana plants: Dig a comfortable square, 2-3 ft X 2-3 ft., min. 1 ft deep, to be able to work in. Plant the plants, one plant per hole in the hole.
Banana plants grow lots of surface roots and the following generations will be shallower and shallower. That is what the hole is for: You fill in a layer of dirt every year or according to new shoots, so there is enough soil around the roots. Otherwise the plants will be falling all over the place.

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I think you are in zone 6. But in any case, you may have variations based on microclimates on your property – local topography, windbreaks, ponds, a hill, etc.

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Here is the gardening zones for the US

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Well looked it up Los Angeles is a zone 9 acording to the internet-Good Luck and happy planting!