Lifehacker

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map Just Changed

Heat domes, atmospheric rivers, bomb cyclones, and polar vortex—you’re not crazy, the weather is. And last week, the USDA confirmed it by releasing an updated climate zone map for 2023. And for many ...
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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 ...
extension.purdue.edu

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 ...

This week’s North Texas weather highlights the problem with hardiness zone map

The 1990 map was still pretty accurate. It still showed us to be in Zone 7. But when an update was published in 2014, it ...
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How to Find Your Gardening Zone—Plus, the Best Plants to Grow in Your Region

Identify your plant hardiness zone with help from our garden experts. Even if you're a gardening novice, you've likely heard the term "gardening zones." This refers to the United States Department of ...
The Denver Post

Colorado gardeners eyeing warmer USDA growing zones should be careful, experts say

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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Portland Press Herald

The Conversation: Climate change is shifting the zones where plants grow – here’s what that could mean for your garden

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Yahoo

What is my growing zone? Which plants can you start growing and when in Tennessee

Daylight saving time has brought Tennessee even more hours of sunshine, which means spring is just around the corner and it's time to get the spring garden ready. While there are plenty of plants that ...
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 ...