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Zone 2

 
Zone 2

Zone 2 temperature are not that much warmer than Zone 1 as the average low temperature will fall between - 40 degrees and -50 degrees Fahrenheit (-42.8 to -40.0 Celsius). A range of ten degrees. Still a very cold and very short growing season but somewhat improved over Zone 1. Rock Gardens, Hydroponics gardening, indoor gardening and planting in containers as well as greenhouse gardening are very popular.

Zone 2 stretches all the way across upper Canada and into Alaska on to the Bering Sea. The famous oil cities of Unalakleet and Prudhoe Bay in Alaska are in Zone 2. Zone 2 extend south all the way into Minnesota (Pinecreek, Wyoming , Montana along with North Dakota, Michigan and the higher elevations of the Rockies in Colorado.

Organic gardening it rather easy here to do to the short season cold temperatures.

Here are some plants you are likely to see growing here that are not usually present in Zone 2.

As one would probably imagine there are alot of grasses and Sedges that do well in this Zone. Examples include:
Sedge, thickhead (Carex macloviana),
Sloughgrass, egan (Beckmannia syzgachne 'Egan"),
Vanilla Grass (Hierochloe odorrata),
Wheatgrass, macrourum (Agropyron macrourum),
Wheatgrass violet (Agropyron),
Wheatgrass Wainwright slender (Agropyron pauciflorum),
Wildrye, beach (leymus arenearius),
Poppy (papover),
Poppy Lapland (Papover Lapponicum),
Beach Pea (Lathyrus maritimus),

Poppy Portage,
Pussytoes,
Rattlebox,
Prairie Sagewort,
Yellow Sedum,
Shooting Star,
Speedwell and Wild Sweet Pea,
Bugleweed,
Bunchberry Dogwood,
Potentilla fruiticosa (Bush cingufoil),
Silverberry, Colorado spruce and the American Cranberry Bush.

Just a few apples will grow here as well like Whitney Crab.

   

A some roses do well in the Sub-Zero winters and survive with ease. A few picks include the Walter Brownell series called Senior Prom, Maria Stern, Dr. Brownell, Lily Pons and the Margaret Chase Smith cultivar. They seem to love the cold conditions seen all the way up to the Arctic and beyond.

Some trees that do well in the landscape too, especially in the cities include the European Mountain Ash, (Except for parts of Michigan where the Emerald Ash Borer is on the rampage.), the Box Elder (Watch for the Asian Long Horned Beetle) and the blue gray hardy Russian Olive. There are several conifers that do well in the cold like Black Hills Spruce a favorite as a landscape ornamental.

Zone 2 has some other things going for it too including a soil that is more fertile than Zone 1 and a wider variety of plant availability. Some rose gardening is also practised here, along with rock gardening and herb gardening in protected areas with south exposures, espeially at higher altitudes. Gardening Books and Gardening Magazines can lead you to some wonderfull Ideas for your area,

 

  
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