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

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 USDA defines plant hardiness zones based on the coldest average annual temperature in winter at a given location. Each zone represents a 10-degree F range, with zones numbered from 1 (coldest ...

The last time the USDA changed the Hardiness Zone map was 2012. ... The other half of Ohio is now in Zone 6a, where the average low temperature range is -10 to -5 degrees Fahrenheit.

About half of the country moved into a slightly warmer zone in the Agriculture Department’s new “plant hardiness” map, an important guide for gardeners. Climate change may be a factor.

Heat domes, atmospheric rivers, bomb cyclones, and polar vortex—you’re not crazy, the weather is. And last week, the USDA confirmed it by releasing an updated climate zone map for 2023. For ...

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map consists of 13 individual zones that take in all of the contiguous United States, ... Zones represent low temperatures in 10-degree increments, ...

“The USDA plant hardiness zone map gives us an idea of our average high and low temperatures,” says McClure. She comes from a horticultural family and manages about 100 volunteer master gardeners ...

Scrub Hub: Hoosiers may not be able to plant the same trees they used to Long answer: Experience and your microclimate matter. As Hoosiers experience these broader shifts in zones due to climate ...

For the first time since 2012, a new Plant Hardiness Zone Map has been released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The map, released Nov. 15, 2023, is a tool used by gardeners and growers ...

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. “The other thing on top of it ...

Louisiana's growing zones range from 8b in North Louisiana to 10a at the state's southern-most tip, with majority of the state falling into either zones 8 and 9, according to USDA's Hardiness Zone ...