Gardeners: changing hardiness map

[Owlet]

From the Arbor Day Foundation, here’s an animation that demonstrates the shifting plant growth, or “hardiness zones,” in North America from 1990 to 2006.

[fasttense]

1. It's getting hotter and hotter.

There's no such thing as global warming, there's no such thing as global warming, there's no such thing as global warming. Click your heels together 3 times and repeat after me...

Magical thinking will always save you.:sarcasm:

[Demit]

2. I knew it from observation (plants that survive winter here that aren't supposed to) but thanks!

The animation really brings it home, how drastic the change has been in just 16 years.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Those are some dramatic changes in such a short time period.

[Pooka Fey]

4. Thanks for posting.

[duhneece]

5. Arbor Foundation? Hotbed of liberal thinking.

What a great illustration...I"ve already posted the link on a local forum. Thanks.

[Kolesar]

6. Cleveland reached -21F about a year after Mt. Penetubo erupted in the Philipines

The previous summer was cold, too.