Name: Susan Virginia (Zone 8a) God is the only thing that matters.
I know what you mean, I do the same thing. I have noticed that some companies exaggerate the zones. It if funny because I read some reviews and they did not come back for people in zone 8 either and they did not come back for me.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29