{"id":3534,"date":"2010-07-03T13:48:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T12:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2019-10-20T15:21:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T14:21:18","slug":"plant-hardiness-zones-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/plant-hardiness-zones-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant Hardiness Zones around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plant hardiness defines the lowest temperature at which a plant will survive during the winter.<\/p>\n<p>The zones are defined differently in the UK, the US and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The UK uses the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Zones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>H &#8211; Fully Hardy &#8211; Hardy to -15 degrees C (5 degrees F)<\/li>\n<li>FH &#8211; Frost Hardy &#8211; Hardy to -5 degrees C (23 degrees F)<\/li>\n<li>HH &#8211; Half Hardy &#8211; Hardy to zero degrees C (32 degrees F)<\/li>\n<li>FT &#8211; Frost Tender &#8211; Not hardy below 5 degrees C (41 degrees F)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The rest of Europe uses the European Garden Flora (EGF) Zones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>H1 &#8211; Hardy to -20 degrees C (-4 degrees F) and below<\/li>\n<li>H2 &#8211; Hardy to -15 to-20 degrees C (5 to -4 degrees F)<\/li>\n<li>H3 &#8211; Hardy to -10 to -15 degrees C (14 to 5 degrees F)<\/li>\n<li>H4 &#8211; Hardy to -5 to -10 degrees C (23 to 14 degrees F)<\/li>\n<li>H5 &#8211; Hardy to zero to 5 degrees C (32 to 40 degrees F)<\/li>\n<li>G1 &#8211; Requires cool greenhouse protection<\/li>\n<li>G2 &#8211; Requires heated greenhouse protection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US uses a wider zoning system which is detailed in the diagram below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/070310_1348_HardinessZo1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plant hardiness defines the lowest temperature at which a plant will survive during the winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1637],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-flowers-and-plants","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3534"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15628,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions\/15628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}