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Knowing your zone will help you find what will grow most successfully in your garden. Choose your zone from the list to see what you can consider planting right now.

Australia

Detailed information on Australian climate zones can be found at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology website.

Australia - cool/mountain: Mild or warm summer. Cold winter with frosts. Includes high areas of the New South Wales Northern Tablelands (Armidale,Guyra,Glen Innes), Southern Tablelands, Canberra/ACT, and most of Tasmania.
Australia - temperate: Warm summer (average January maximum < 30 degrees C), cool winter. Includes inland Queensland, New South Wales tablelands and coastal region south of Sydney, and much of southern coastal Australia from Melbourne, Adelaide through to Perth.
Australia - sub-tropical: Warm humid summer (average January maximum temperature < 30 degrees C). Mild dry winter. Includes the eastern seaboard from Brisbane south through Coffs Harbour to Sydney. Coastal WA from approx Geraldton to Canarvon
Australia - tropical: Hot humid summer (average January maximum temperature > 30 degrees C). Warm winter. Extends across the north of Australia from Canarvon through Port Hedland, Broome, Darwin, Cairns, and south to Rockhampton.

New Zealand

An overview of New Zealand climate zones can be found at the NIWA Science website.

New Zealand - temperate: (On our gardengrow.co.nz companion site); Warm summer, cool wet winter. Occasional frosts. North Island - Hamilton, Taranaki ( except mountain areas) and western coastal areas as far as Wellington. Rotorua and all east coast areas from Bay of plenty south. South Island - Nelson and West coast areas south to Greymouth . Picton and east coast south through Christchurch, Dunedin to Invercargill.
New Zealand - cool/mountain: (On our gardengrow.co.nz companion site); Warm summer. Cold winter with frosts. Taupo, parts of Waikato in shadow of the mountains, Wairarapa. Areas near Mount Taranaki. Inland areas of Otago, Canterbury and all Southern Lakes area
New Zealand - sub-tropical: (On our gardengrow.co.nz companion site); Warm summer. Mild winter with rare frost.Auckland,Northland, Coromandel and east coast areas to Tauranga and Mount Maunganui excluding inland areas which have frequent frosts.

United Kingdom

United Kingdom - cool/temperate: North and West areas but some variation in coastal areas affected by the Gulf Stream. Check with www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/regional/
United Kingdom - warm/temperate: South and East areas .Check with www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/regional/

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