Plant Hardiness Zones. Plant hardiness zones help gardeners understand which plants will most likely survive at a location. It is important that your plants can thrive year-round, surviving extreme temperatures. Note: Zone maps do have shortfalls; if the information is inaccurate, you may live in a microclimate.
In normal years, colors peak in the first week of October on the U.P., the second week of October in northern Lower Michigan and the last two weeks of October in southern Lower Michigan. When the colors do peak, here are some of the best bets for fall foliage viewing from Pure Michigan:
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) â Sunshine later this week should help warm up Lake Michigan a little going into the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Surface water temperatures were sitting mostly in the 60s on Tuesday. Thatâs not bad for this time of the year, but is a little on the cool side.