As plant hardiness zones shift from climate change, gardeners must rethink their choices. Discover what these changes mean and how to keep your garden thriving year-round. The post Plant Hardiness ...

Hardiness Zones 101. 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 United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is responsible for creating a plant hardiness zone map. This tool divides the country into 13 color-coded areas based on their average extreme ...

The United States has a diverse ecological footprint, so growing seasons differ slightly from region to region. Knowing when to plant in specific hardiness zones is important to maximize the ...

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 map of the US is divided into zones, separated by ten degrees. It starts with 1a (Alaska) and goes all the way up to 13b (Puerto Rico), and the mainland U.S. tends to live between zones 5 and 10.

Great news for 80 million (and growing) green thumbs across the country: The USDA has finally released an updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map, its first in 11 years. It highlights both tech ...

In the United States, the USDA publishes a hardiness zone map, which covers all fifty states and includes Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Plant zones across US and Florida. As with the 2012 map, the new version has 13 zones across the United States and its territories. Each zone is broken into half zones, ...

Climate Connection: Plant hardiness 03:52. The United States is divided into 13 different plant hardiness zones, each with "A" and "B" subdivisions.This is a number assigned to a plant that tells ...

If you're in USDA zones 4 through 8, it'll come back every year—just make sure to plant it in a container unless you want it to take over your garden. Fuchsia is grown primarily as an annual in ...

The data, reflected in the updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map in November, helps gardeners, farmers, insurers and other officials decide what to plant, how much to charge farmers for crop insurance ...