The most accurate and detailed plant zone map ever has been released
The most accurate and detailed plant zone map ever has been released
It’s taken more than a decade, but the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has finally released an updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map that spans the nation and the territory of Puerto Rico in such detail that gardeners can now zoom right into their local areas.
While (imo) long overdue, the updated USDA Hardiness Zone map is just average lowest temperature. It's good to have that as a data point, but I think it's better utilized when cross referenced with something like the Köppen classification system - my preferred version of this is the Trewartha classification system.
Have any good links for that handy?
I think this here is a really good explanation of this type of climate classification system.
Thank you! I've advocated the koppen climate classifications for years into a void, but I'd never heard of trewartha!
<3 there are dozens of us!