Holly Jones started studying the micro-climate and the topography on her family farm near Crawfordsville, about 40 miles ...

With spring on the horizon, many gardeners are preparing for prolonged, hearty growing seasons in their region. The United States has a diverse ecological footprint, so growing seasons differ slightly ...

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 ...

Plant hardiness zones are shifting northward nationwide as the country continues to warm, affecting farmers, gardeners and ...

The plant hardiness zone designations represent the average annual extreme minimum temperatures at a given location during a particular time period. It covers all of the continental United States ...

Knowing the precise time to get annual plants into the ground and whether or not a perennial will grow in a given location is often buried in local community lore, but the US Department of Agriculture ...

Here’s the long version of the answer: in the early 1960s, the US Department of Agriculture first produced its Plant Hardiness Zone Map as a tool to aid gardeners and researchers.

INDIANA, USA — New Plant Hardiness Zone maps updated by the US Department of Agriculture released this week show a drastically reduced Zone 5 throughout Indiana, while Zone 7 makes an appearance in ...

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 ...

So, the new map shows us in Zone 7B instead of Zone 7A – a difference of 5 degrees. Most of the country shifted in this manner with the warming trend showing a plus 3.2 degrees overall. What ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture released an updated plant hardiness zone map Wednesday, the first update in more than 20 years.