If you live in USDA hardiness zone 8 and are not sure what to plant, here is a comprehensive list of ones you should consider ...

The USDA's plant hardiness zone map shows the average lowest temperature ... reporter who writes about environmental issues in the Mississippi River watershed and across Wisconsin.

Knowing when to plant in specific hardiness zones is important to maximize the spring season's potential. A hardiness zone is a geographic area with a similar average minimum temperature. The map ...

Late last November, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released an updated Plant Hardiness Zone map for the United States. Gardeners use this map to determine which plants and ...

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 ...

For example: Maps generated by Climate Central show that as our climate has warmed due to heat-trapping carbon pollution, plant hardiness zones have shifted north toward higher latitudes and ...

But the year before, the drought was particularly hard on plants. Worcester was among the locations that the USDA maps indicated had experienced a shift in its hardiness zone. Caforio said he ...

These maps are sometimes referred to as hardiness zone maps since hardiness refers to cold tolerance in reference to plants. Yet there is one important limiting factor to growth that these maps ...