Don't let your vacation ruin your garden. These plants for Southern USDA Zones are meant to stand up to drought, heat, pests, ...

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 ...

Zone 5 and 6. Plants growing in these zones need to survive temperatures as low as -20 degrees Fahrenheit (in zone 5) while coping with higher heat and humidity levels in the summer.

Plant labels, catalogs, books and websites all classify plants according to the USDA hardiness zones. On the new map, Chicago is in Zone 6 rather than the slightly colder Zone 5.

INDIANA, USA — New Plant Hardiness Zone maps updated by the US Department of Agriculture released this week show a drastically reduced Zone 5 throughout Indiana, while Zone 7 makes an appearance in ...

On Nov. 15, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a new version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map, the first time it's done so since 2012. According to a release from the USDA, the new ...

As climate change warms the Earth, plant hardiness zones are shifting northward. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its plant hardiness zone map, which shows where various plants will ...

A Zone 5 plant is going to be “very hardy in this area,” he said. Perennial plants sit on display at Chesterton Feed and Garden Center on Friday, May 17, 2024.

Michigan is home to seven of the 26 half zones, starting as low as minus 30 to minus 25 degrees and topping out at 0 to 5 degrees. Below is a map by zip code of the plant hardiness zones in Michigan.

The USDA’s plant hardiness zone map was updated in 2023, Becker said. The map that was being used before the 2023 map was dated 2012, he said. “What do these maps tell us?” ...