And last week, the USDA confirmed it by releasing an updated climate zone map for 2023. And for many gardeners, that means a change in growing zones. The map of the US is divided into zones ...

As plant hardiness zones shift from climate change, gardeners must rethink their choices. Discover what these changes mean ...

A hardiness zone is a geographic area with a similar average minimum temperature. The map is based on the average annual extreme minimum temperature, so people in those areas know which plants can ...

but the US Department of Agriculture’s plant hardiness zone map is used by millions of growers to help determine which plants are likely to thrive in a location. This first version was released in the ...

released an updated Plant Hardiness Zone map for the United States. Gardeners use this map to determine which plants and specific varieties of plants will thrive in the locations where they garden.

In the 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone map, which was generated based on weather data gathered from 1991 to 2020, about half the United States moved into a warmer zone.

Tim Kohlhauff remembers the days when his hometown of Spokane, Washington was in zone 5b on the Plant Hardiness Zone Map. When he was growing up, daisies, rhododendrons, and azaleas were always ...

For the first time since 2012, a new Plant Hardiness Zone Map has been released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The map, released Nov. 15, 2023, is a tool used by gardeners and growers ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture published a new version of its well-known Plant Hardiness Zone map earlier this month, an online tool that classifies growing regions based on extremely cold ...

Last month, there was big news in the plant world, and while it shows the weather has been warming in recent years in Southeastern North Carolina, you might just want to wait a few decades before ...