USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map 1990. Courtesy USDA Despite the ... hydrangeas now might spend a winter more happily in greater Boston. "It opens up a whole new plant palette," said Trevor Smith ...

WASHINGTON — Southern staples like magnolia trees and camellias may now be able to grow without frost damage in once-frigid Boston. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Plant Hardiness Zone ...

What do the updates to the USDA plant hardiness map mean for area gardeners ... warming temperatures for Massachusetts’ planting zones. So what does that mean for gardeners as we head into ...

Southern staples like magnolia trees and camellias may now be able to grow without frost damage in once-frigid Boston. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's " plant hardiness zone map" was updated ...

Worcester was among the locations that the USDA maps indicated had experienced a shift in its hardiness zone. Caforio said he encountered this problem earlier this year. “We did a big install ...

Recent research from climate central shows Boston‘s planting zone is warming, part of a national trend that will impact what we grow and where. Since 1951, Boston has been in planting zone 7a ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ”plant hardiness zone map” was updated Wednesday ... Research Service to produce the map. Boston University plant ecologist Richard Primack, who was ...