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 ...

On Wednesday, the Department of Agriculture unveiled what most gardeners had known for years: a new plant hardiness zone map that shows generally warmer winter low temperatures than the department ...

The new USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map is the first to take into account topography on how low average winter temperatures go. It also shows our area warming and the intricate differences that ...

The map charts 13 zones nationally using 5-degree temperature divisions, each number corresponding to a Zone A and B (1A, 1B, etc.). Massachusetts ranges from 5A (in the Berkshires) to 7B (at the ...

The USDA is updating an important map for gardeners and growers picking plants and flowers. The new map shows the contiguous U.S. is about 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the last map 11 years ago.

The USDA is updating an important map for gardeners and growers picking plants and flowers. The new map shows the contiguous US is about 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the last map 11 years ago.

The map is developed by taking the average temperature of each year’s coldest day over 30 years — between 1991 and 2020 — and assigning it to one of 26 color-coded zones in increments of 5 ...

A map relied upon by many of America's 80 million gardeners and growers just got its first update in more than a decade. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Plant Hardiness Zone Map shows warmer ...