As plant hardiness zones shift from climate change, gardeners must rethink their choices. Discover what these changes mean ...

A hardiness zone is a geographic area with a similar average minimum temperature. The map is based on the average annual extreme minimum temperature, so people in those areas know which plants can ...

Sometimes called “growing zones” or “gardening zones,” hardiness zones refer to a map developed by the USDA that separates the United States into regions based on the average low winter ...

The updated map indicated a northward shift in the zones, reflecting the changing conditions. Gardening zones provide essential information about your area’s climate, particularly its coldest ...

About half of the country moved into a slightly warmer zone ... Garden. Jason D. Lanier, an extension specialist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, said the shift in the map, while ...

Question: I know the USDA recently issued a new Hardiness Zone map. I live in Lehigh Acres ... expanding my list of native plants for my garden, being that so many of them are tropical in origin?