Britain and Ireland Hardiness Zones
Owing to the moderating effect of the North Atlantic Current on the Irish and British temperate maritime climate, Britain, and Ireland even more so, have milder winters than their northerly position would otherwise entail. This means that the hardiness zones relevant to Britain and Ireland are quite high, from 7 to 10, as shown below.
- 7. In Scotland the Grampians, Highlands and locally in the Southern Uplands, in England the Pennines and in Wales the highest part of Snowdonia.
- 8. Most of England, Wales and Scotland, parts of central Ireland, and Snaefell on the Isle of Man.
- 9. Most of western and southern England and Wales, western Scotland, also a very narrow coastal fringe on the east coast of Scotland and northeast England (within 5 km of the North Sea), London, most of Ireland, and most of the Isle of Man.
- 10. Very low lying coastal areas of the southwest of Ireland and the Isles of Scilly.
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