Before planting it is a good idea to find your USDA Zone info to determine your garden schedule. The zone info helps tell us things like average date of last frost and lowest expected temperature for your area.

A common way of making a decision about when to plant monkey flower is to refer to the USDA zone info for Ocean City.

Planting Calendar for Monkey Flower

Frost tolerance for monkey flower:	Not tolerant of frost.
When to plant:	After the last frost.

Since monkey flower require warm weather you must wait until after the last frost before you can plant them.

The earliest that you can plant monkey flower in Ocean City is April. However, you really should wait until May if you don't want to take any chances.

The last month that you can plant monkey flower and expect a good harvest is probably August. Any later than that and your monkey flower may not have a chance to really do well. You can get started a little bit earlier by starting your monkey flower indoors.

Last Frost Date

On average all chance of frost has passed is on April 15 in Ocean City. In the coldest months of winter you should expect an average low temperature of 5°F.

Since the USDA zone info for Ocean City is an average the actual date of last frost can change quite a bit from year to year. Since half of the time in Ocean City there is a last frost after April 15 be ready to protect your monkey flower in the event of a late frost.

USDA Zone Info for Ocean City

Here is the info for USDA Zone 7b.

Average Date of Last Frost (spring)	April 15
Average Date of First Frost (fall)	October 15
Lowest Expected Low	5°F
Highest Expected Low	10°F

This means that on a really cold year, the coldest it will get is 5°F. On most years you should be prepared to experience lows near 10°F.

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