Yahoo

The USDA's new plant zone map shifts cities like Lansing and Omaha five degrees warmer and could change how you garden, including when and what you grow

The USDA updated its map of plant hardiness zones for the first time in over a decade. The new map shows that half the country has shifted to warmer zones. The updated zones could allow gardeners to ...
PBS

Climate change is shifting plant growth zones. Here’s what to know for your garden this year

With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the gardening and landscaping section of home improvement stores, where displays are overstocked with eye-catching seed ...
The Journal

Updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map revealed

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently released a new version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map, updating this valuable tool for gardeners and researchers for the first time since 2012. USDA’s ...
Forbes

What Are Plant Hardiness Zones? Plus, Find Out Which One You’re In

Gemma is an experienced freelance writer who has spent the last five years focusing on expert-driven content relating to homes and gardens. She has contributed to several lifestyle publications ...
WTHR

Much of Indiana shifts into new plant hardiness zones - how does it affect what you grow?

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 ...
Popular Science

Climate change is shifting the zones where plants grow

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the gardening and landscaping section of home improvement stores, ...
Lifehacker

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map Just Changed

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. And for many ...
Modern Farmer

USDA’s Updated Plant Hardiness Map Shows Where Growing Zones Are Warming

Knowing the precise time to get annual plants into the ground and whether or not a perennial will grow in a given location is often buried in local community lore, but the US Department of Agriculture ...
Portland Press Herald

The Conversation: Climate change is shifting the zones where plants grow – here’s what that could mean for your garden

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Penn Live

Our ‘gardening zone’ is getting warmer again, new USDA map shows | George Weigel

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s new Plant Hardiness Zone Map confirms what gardeners have been noticing for years – our winters aren’t as cold as they used to be. USDA just released new ...
Star Tribune

Thinking of spring? What the USDA’s new hardiness map means for Minnesota gardeners

As spring nears, many are wondering what we should or shouldn’t grow now that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has updated its plant zone hardiness map and moved parts of Minnesota from Zone ...