The USDA’s winter hardiness zone map has long been the standard used by home gardeners, plant breeders and researchers to determine which plants are most likely to thrive in their location, based on ...

This is a good time to answer a question about those confusing temperature maps. But first, let’s clear up just where we stand today before giving the gardening green light. According to the ...

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 ...

In the news recently, the U.S. Department of Agriculture revised its plant hardiness zone map for the first time in more than a decade. As always, this is a hot topic in horticultural circles. What is ...

In November, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its latest version of the Hardiness Zone Map. This mapping system categorizes geographic regions according to their average annual minimum ...

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 ...

A map relied upon by many of America's 80 million gardeners and growers just got its first update in more than a decade. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Plant Hardiness Zone Map shows warmer ...

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map is a tool designed to help gardeners, growers, and landscapers select plants that are most likely to thrive in a particular geographic region of the United States. It ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado gardeners eyeing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which moves much of the state in a warmer growing zone, ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — If you've been feeling like it's been a lot hotter lately, you're not alone and now data is backing up those (sweaty) feelings. While the map is especially essential for ...