The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map consists of 13 individual zones that take in all of the contiguous United States, plus Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. The first zone lies at the coldest and ...

The USDA has updated its plant hardiness zone map for the first time in over 10 years. The new map could change how you garden. Gardening consultant, Megan London, for example, told NPR she's now ...

For reference, the interior of Alaska is in USDA Hardiness Zone 1a, experiencing average minimum temperatures of -60 to -55° F, while the Hawaiian Islands are in zone 13b, experiencing average ...

Learning your Plant Hardiness Zone will help you choose plants that will grow well in your garden and avoid those that might not survive.

2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map (Courtesy USDA) Most urgently, the 2023 PHZM reveals that Alaska is “warmer” when compared to the 2012 map, a USDA press release stated.

By now we can ascertain that we should be selecting plants that our USDA zones cater to. Lucky for us, Lydia has shared a range of brilliant crops to grow based on the area your garden lies in.

The USDA plant hardiness zone map has been around since 1960 and has been updated several times since then. About half of the country is now placed a half zone warmer than they were in the last ...

Cumberland New USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map reflects warmer growing climates with increased accuracy Updated: Jun. 17, 2012, 9:19 a.m. | Published: Jun. 17, 2012, 8: ...

The USDA does not consider changes to the map to be reliable evidence of global warming. The U.S. National Arboretum also has a cold hardiness zone map with ratings for selected woody plants.

USDA zones are based on averages, not isolated events, and plants can be killed if the temperatures in the winter dip too low regardless of what the new map says.

The USDA cautions against using the plant hardiness zones, which are based on 30-year averages, as indicators for climate change. But gardeners say the maps reflect one of the ways they’re ...

The 2012 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM) allows gardeners and growers to assess which plants are most likely to thrive at any given location, as well as view warming trends across various U.S ...