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with a map that shows the differences in hardiness zones between 1990 and 2006. According to tins map, all of Fauquier County is in Zone 7.
Alison Bremner, a horticulture specialist with Virginia Cooperative Extension, has noticed that certain trees have reacted differently in our climate in recent years.
“Crepe myrtles used to be killed back to the ground every winter, but now you see that their trunks are surviving,* says Bremner.
At the opposite end of the temperature range, Bremner Has se«a Colorado blue spruce and Alberta spruce trees suffer.
“With warmer, humid summer temperatures and milder winters, they have not looked as healthy as in years past,* die said
Still, many experts are not convinced that this slight shift in weather is the reason fir these observations.
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