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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.

New Zealand

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

New Zealand - temperate
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Warm summer, cool wet winter. Occasional frosts. North Island - Hamilton and western coastal areas as far as Wellington. Palmerston North, 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
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Warm summer. Cold winter with frosts. Taupo, parts of Waikato in shadow of the mountains, Wairarapa. Inland areas of Otago, Canterbury and all Southern Lakes area
New Zealand - sub-tropical
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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.


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