The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released a new Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM), the first update since 2012. The new map shows that most of the country, including New York ...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released a new Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM), the first update since 2012. The new map shows that most of the country, including New York ...

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.

The new Plant Hardiness Zone Map reveals that about half of the country shifted to the next warmer half zone, when compared to the previous map, compiled in 2012. Contributed / USDA.

I grew up in the New York City area that the current map conveniently ranks as zone 7a — the same as my Louisville, KY garden. Yet the low-temperature record in New York is nearly 10 degrees ...

The map is a graphic representation of the United States broken into 26 zones based on average annual minimum temperature.

So use the zone map as a baseline to assess plant hardiness, not as a bible. And one more thing (or two) We are now firmly in winter season, and thus far, December has proved to be slightly warmer ...

The new USDA plant hardiness zone map moves all of Chicago and most of central Illinois into the warmer Zone 6, but gardeners are still wise to be cautious because the weather continues to be ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has recently released a new “plant hardiness zone map” that shows some areas of Western New York can now be considered a zone warmer, for ...

The USDA’s new Plant Hardiness Zone Map shows temperatures about 2.5 degrees higher in the United States than the previous version released in 2012. Most Popular 1 Washington teen develops […] ...

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 ...