The best drought-tolerant ground covers will depend on your location. While these ground cover plants have low water demand ...

When picking plants to grow in your garden, it’s easy to just go with what you like or whatever plants your neighbors grow.

A hardiness zone map is a tool that divides a geographical area into distinct zones based on average annual minimum winter temperatures. These maps are used by gardeners and farmers around the ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has a Plant Hardiness Zone Map that divides the U.S. into 13 different zones, which helps gardeners choose plants that can survive in their respective ...

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map divides North America into 13 zones based on the average annual minimum winter temperature. In 2023, the USDA released an updated hardiness zone map in response ...

Zone 9 and 10. These hardiness zones have average minimum winter temperatures between 20 degrees Fahrenheit and 40 degrees Fahrenheit, meaning many of the native plants are heat-loving and perfect ...

The Plant Hardiness Zone Map is based on the average annual extreme minimum winter temperature, displayed as 10-degree F zones ranging from zone 1 (coldest) to zone 13 (warmest), the USDA notes.

The Plant Hardiness Zone Map is based on the average annual extreme minimum winter temperature, displayed as 10-degree F zones ranging from zone 1 (coldest) to zone 13 (warmest), the USDA notes.

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 ...

For example, the coldest hardiness zone in the lower 48 states on the new map, 3a, covers small pockets in the northernmost parts of Minnesota and has winter extreme temperatures of -40 F to -35 F.

Weather observation data sites grew from 7983 in the 2012 zone map to 13,412 in the most recent 2023 zone map which has allowed for greater detail and resolution in the plant hardiness zones. The ...