My climate is sufficiently different from almost everybody else's (outside of coastal California USA) that the basic culture sheets and articles are pretty useless for me. (And I grow predominantly outdoors) I have a pretty big collection, and am always trying to figure out what I can get away with... I go to the species information for factors such as elevation, and then extrapolate a lot. I have shared what works for me (what grows outdoors, what needs greenhouse protection) on my website. Anybody who uses that information is then going to have to extrapolate to THEIR conditions. Never mind different countries... different micro-climates in the same coastal region of one state of the USA. I have utilized a book written specifically for the San Francisco Bay area, which addresses a wide range of micro-climates, and done my own extrapolations along with a lot of observation. (This is closest I could come to a reference work relevant to my area.) Result, an increasing number of successes and a diminishing number of failures. But it remains a work in progress and I think always will be.
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