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.

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.

“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 ...

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map divides the United States and Canada into 13 zones, based on the average annual minimum winter temperature. Each zone is, on average, 10 degrees warmer or colder ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has updated its Plant Hardiness Zone Map — the first revision since 2012. It shows that Massachusetts is getting warmer, leading to more options for ...

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 ...

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 ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Plant hardiness zones have long been a useful guideline for determining if what you're planting in your yard can handle cold temperatures. The USDA’s Agricultural Research ...

The USDA bases its plant zone maps on average minimum temperature so people in each zone know which plants can best withstand their local weather. For example, ...

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 ...