[DruidCity]

I hope you and DruidCity make it to Vancouver in the near future (Best 2 months are July and August to come, but June and September are usually nice as well, and sometimes May and October).

Thanks. Whether my brother and I make the trip depends on whether he gets an engineering research paper published at a conference the end of June.
We're extremely interested in the possibility, though.

Anyways, I have some detailed hardness zone maps in my house and the eastern half of metro-Vancouver is in zone 8a, while the areas closer to the water are in the slightly milder winter zone of 8b. Most of the Gulf Islands, the Victoria area and parts of the western edge of Vancouver Island are actually in zone 9, which is an amazingly mild zone for Canada.

I remember seeing some great palm photos from a garden on Salt Spring Island.

St. George, Utah is also in zone 8 and there are plenty of fan palms there.

I noticed that when I passed through on my July visit to Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon.