A Word To The Wise

Espalier, a pruning technique that creates two-dimensional trees, is a great way to utilize fences and other tight vertical elements in smaller yards to grow fruit trees

The Interactive Climatic Map is a clickable map of Northern North America which provides you with valuable climatic and gardening data for various regions of the Northscaping world. You simply click on your location on the map (or any particular location of interest) in northern North America, and obtain various climatic data important to gardening and landscaping activities, such as hardiness zone, precipitation, and frost-free days/growing season.

Click anywhere on the map of North America below to select a State or Province of interest. This will bring up a target map of that particular State or Province. Simply click the specific location you wish to retrieve the climatic data from, and the data will appear in a pop-up window (be sure that your computer is not set to block pop-ups). Note that the data is limited to locations north of approx. 37 deg. latitude.

For more detailed hardiness zone information, a link to the U.S. hardiness zone map is provided following the clickable map.

Click the map below to access the U.S. hardiness zone map web page.