The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently released a new version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map, updating this valuable tool for gardeners and researchers for the first time since 2012. USDA’s ...

For the first time since 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has released an updated plant hardiness zone map. The map is based on the average annual extreme minimum temperature over a 30-year ...

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 ...

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At last. Finally, there’s an updated official government resource out there that gardeners all across the land can blame for any failed planting efforts. OK, maybe not for all failed plantings, but at ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. hardiness_zone_maps__1__360 Sometimes called “growing zones” or “gardening zones,” hardiness zones refer to a map developed by the ...

This week the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released an updated version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM)—a datum used by gardeners and farmers to determine which plants are most likely ...

About half of the country moved into a slightly warmer zone in the Agriculture Department’s new “plant hardiness” map, an important guide for gardeners. Climate change may be a factor. By Remy Tumin ...