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http://www.arborday.org/media/map_change.cfm" target="_blank

I used to be in zone 5 and planted accordingly. This year I wondered if perhaps they'd changed the frost free date a tad over the years. To my surprise, I'm now in a whole different climate zone! I could have put out tomatoes last weekend. I should have planted just about everything 3 weeks sooner than I did.

ACKK! Must till garden! Must plant stuff! Everything can be planted *now* instead of 3 weeks from now like I'd planned.

Holy crap! An entire quarter of Colorado is in zone 6 now! The highest used to be zone 5. Where I live was once on the border between 4 and 5, so different parts of our yard would be different zones depending on how much sun it got. The north side was 4, the south side was 5. Now I bet it's all 5.

Ours hasn't changed yet, but we've had an extraordinarily wet year out here. If the precipitation keeps up, we'll be living in a grassland instead of a desert.

That's interesting. Where we live in Ohio hasn't changed, but where I grew up in Ohio has. The empirical evidence seems to speak otherwise, though. My friends in Cleveland have been commenting on how much farther along we are with our spring than they are. We're talking a difference of 4 hours.

They say that 30 years ago you could grow citrus in the desert here, but now you cannot because it gets too cold here in the winter. Of course I wasn't around here at the time, but I do wish we could grow a five fruit tree.

It's only a four hour drive south to my parent's house, but they've now moved from climate zone 6 to 7. That's practically subtropical! I wonder if they can grow fig trees now???? That would be cool. I've got a potted fig tree, but the fruit always drops off after a while, before maturing. I guess the fruit really does need to be polinated. I skipped setting it out last year, because my potted fruit trees got so much grasshopper damage the year before, but perhaps I need to set it them out for actual fruit to form.

Besides the nasty oranges the orange tree produces, I mean. Those were horrible.

Maybe it would do better with full sun, though.....

After the last three years, I'd think lower Michigan was in the process of converting to temperate rainforest ala the Pacific Northwest if the winters weren't still so cold. Maybe a whole new biome will emerge.

Is there an international version of the map linked to in the first post?

Maybe this will help?
http://sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/nsdb/climat ... intro.html" target="_blank

Ah yes, thanks!

So I'm in zone 5a.

*goes off to research what can be grown here*