Description of climate
(Seasonal changes, rainfall, severe weather, temperature, temperature fluctuations, etc.)
Description of Landscape( types of plants, soil)
Rutland
Vermont
four distinct seasons, cold winters with temperatures dipping below zero,
deciduous and conifer- maple, white pine, loamy soil, rocky subsoil.
Solsberry
Indiana
500 ft
four distinct seasons, cold winters with temperatures dipping below zero, and sometimes as low as -20. Summer temperatures are usually about 90 degrees but rarely as high as 100
eastern hardwoods, sand-silt loam with an underlayer of limestone, including many caves
Nashville
Tennessee
Four seasons/ humid subtropical climate inflenced by the Gulf of Mexico. 50" average rainfall per year. Snow 5-16" per year ( in mountains mostly). Hot summers. 50 days of thunderstorms, dangerous tornadoes and ice storms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee
Limestone (ancient sea bed makes up the sub soil. Geodes and fossils are easily found. Soil is often clay and rocky and unhospitable to growing unless amended with plant material. Hardwood forests have been depleted for consrution and paper mills, new fast growing trees replaced the old growth.
(Seasonal changes, rainfall, severe weather, temperature, temperature fluctuations, etc.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee