Equivalent Japanese climates

[Cable]

Plant Maps has an interactive map of USDA zones for Japan and for most countries of the world.

That's pretty cool. I never realized how warm most of Japan is. Never really thought about it.

 

[BunjaeKorea]

Japan has a Marine/ Oceanic climate zone. Go fromt there

 

[Anthony]

@AlainK ,

actually this is our death temperature range -

32 deg. C by day in the sun.
17.8 deg. C by night [ for around 10 hours]

Last year low temperatures started end of November and finished around
early April.

Killed Sub-Tropicals - Serissa, Fukien tea, J.B.pines that were
poorly adapted to the climate, Chinese Elms, Olea ,but left the locals
untouched.
Tamarinds unaffected.
Bonsai under trees unaffected.

Maybe root sensitivity to heat and then cold ??????

Thanks for the movie.
Good Day
Anthony

* Snow rapidly becomes slush in Firenze.

 

[rockm]

So, is there any sort map or resource that would help determine where in Japan our climate would equate to so we could find nurseries or places of similar growing condition to better understand tree care? Would we just look at latitude and elevation and call it equal?

Also, would this even be useful information?

Trees' origins are nice to know, but trying to factor in their home climate into the area you are growing them in doesn't really do all that much good.

Back when collected western junipers/conifers were getting started in the early 90's, some owners east of the Mississippi would subscribe to local Cal./Nevada/Colorado newspapers to get the weather forecast, or try to monitor the temp/precipitation in that region the best they could --this was pre-Internet. They'd water only when rain was forecast in the area where they believed their tree was from. Aside from being time-consuming and silly, later owners simply looked at the soils they were using and adopted a looser way of maintaining their trees. The first trees inevitably died from either lack of water or too much. The ability to keep western conifers in the east rests on extremely free-draining soil, as well as taking into account those species' deeper resistance to cold and ability to withstand the extreme humidity in the east compared to the arid west.

Japanese and Chinese species have no such extreme needs. What works for them in Japan and China, works for them east of the Mississippi. China and the Japanese archipelago were once connected to the U.S. Some Chinese plants species' closest relatives are native to the S.E. U.S....

Study Reveals How Eastern U.S. Forests Came to Be | Duke Today

today.duke.edu

This worry is kind of useless.