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USDA Releases Updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently released its updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map. The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map uses weather data to map average annual extreme minimum ...
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Your Growing Zone May Have Changed - Here's What It Means For Your Garden

What is a USDA growing zone, and which one are you in? The answer to one of these questions may be different than what it was only a few years ago. USDA growing zones, in general, help you know which ...

Don’t Miss These Critical March Garden Chores for Every Zone

Every March, gardeners face the same delightful tension: the urge to get outside and do something, held in check by ...
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What Is a Plant Hardiness Zone and How Do I Find Mine?

When gardeners from different parts of the United States meet up, one common question we ask each other is, “What’s your Plant Hardiness Zone?” That leads to some inevitable scratching of heads when ...
Seattle Times

Decoding Seattle’s new hardiness zone, 9a

The USDA Hardiness Zone Map, the arbiter of cold hardiness for plants, underwent a massive revamping in November, throwing the gardening world into a bit of chaos. As a new gardening season dawns, ...
Yahoo

What are growing zones? What temperatures do Louisiana plants need to survive?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Growing zones, also referred to as hardiness zones, are geographical areas categorized based on average annual minimum winter ...
WTHR

Much of Indiana shifts into new plant hardiness zones - how does it affect what you grow?

INDIANA, USA — New Plant Hardiness Zone maps updated by the US Department of Agriculture released this week show a drastically reduced Zone 5 throughout Indiana, while Zone 7 makes an appearance in ...
WLRN

Southwest Florida's growing zones shift north as planet warms; so do half of rest of U.S.

The Department of Agriculture updated its searchable map of the country that shows how much average low temperatures have changed during the last 30 years, and half the country's lows were higher by 5 ...
USA Today

A message from the plants: US is getting a lot warmer, new analysis says

DENVER ‒ For millions of Americans, summers are getting longer, winters are getting warmer and the impacts are showing up in their front yards. A recent analysis by federal scientists shows that half ...
The Gazette

From the Ground Up: So what’s my growing zone?

If you're new to gardening you'll need to familiarize yourself with growing zones and what they mean. If you are a seasoned gardener, you still might be confused about zones. The U.S. Department of ...
KXAN

Plant hardiness maps updated: Austin shifts zones

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The USDA recently updated their Plant Hardiness Zone Maps (PHZM) to reflect the latest 30-year averages published by the National Weather Service. This map looks at the average coldest ...
PBS

Adapting to Warmer Growing Zones

Serome Hamlin tours Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden with Vice President of Horticulture, Danny Cox, to see how new USDA hardiness zones are challenging public gardens with earlier bloom times and new ...