In this Wall Street Journal article, Dan Herms, vice president of research and development at the Davey Institute, discusses how trees are adapting to climate change.
Global warming has impacted gardens across the country— and though this sounds weird to say, for gardeners the affects aren't all bad.
With longer growing seasons and warmer winters, it's possible to grow plants that only a generation ago were out of the question.
Other trees—such as Eastern redbuds and flowering dogwoods, once limited to growing zones no colder than southern Michigan, will now thrive in northern parts of that state, said Dan Herms, vice president of research and development at The Davey Tree Expert Company in Kent, Ohio.
To learn more about how trees are adapting to climate change, read the rest of the article here.
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