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When picking plants to grow in your garden, it’s easy to just go with what you like or whatever plants your neighbors grow. The problem is that not all kinds of plants grow well on where you live.

In the Lower Hudson Valley, there are a variety of hardiness zones present, from 6a to 7b. To check which zone you are in, head to USDA.gov and check out their Plant Hardiness Zone map.

“Compared to the 2012 maps, Ohio has much less zone 5b in the most recent map. This is not to say that we still don’t experience some pretty cold winters, but the average does appear to point ...

The USDA Cold Hardiness Zone map shows that Greenville and most of Pitt County is Zone 8a, meaning our average low winter temperature is between 10 and 15 degrees Fahrenheit. A small part of ...

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.

In 2023, the USDA released an updated hardiness zone map in response to the impact of climate change. The updated map indicated a northward shift in the zones, reflecting the changing conditions.

These maps are sometimes referred to as hardiness zone maps since hardiness refers to cold tolerance in reference to plants. Yet there is one important limiting factor to growth that these maps ...

INDIANA, USA — Indiana is now mostly a Zone 6 state (both a and b) according to the United States Department of Agriculture's latest plant hardiness zone map. It was updated in November 2023, so this ...

How is the map divided? The map is divided into 13 zones, with a 10°F change in temperature between each Zone. Out of the 13 Planting Zones, Zone 1 is the coldest and Zone 13 the warmest, with a ...

The USDA Hardiness Zone Map, the arbiter of cold hardiness for plants, underwent a massive revamping in November, throwing the gardening world into a bit of chaos. As a new gardening season dawns ...

The hardiness zone map is not a guarantee your plant will survive. It's important to understand that the USDA hardiness zone is an indication of which plants are most likely to thrive in a location.