About half of the country moved into a slightly warmer zone ... New York Botanical Garden. Jason D. Lanier, an extension specialist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, said the shift in ...

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.

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 ...

Pine Hollow Arboretum’s founder, John W. Abbuhl, began planting trees around his Albany, N.Y., home in the 1960s. He planted ...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently released its updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map. The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map uses weather data to map average annual extreme minimum ...

Daly also cautioned about using the 2023 map and its warmer zones as eividence of climate change. Climate change is real, he said. The world is warming up. But using the hardiness zone map as an ...

In the news recently, the U.S. Department of Agriculture revised its plant hardiness zone map for the first time in more than a decade. As always, this is a hot topic in horticultural circles.

For the first time since 2012, a new Plant Hardiness Zone Map has been released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The map, released Nov. 15, 2023, is a tool used by gardeners and growers ...

In November, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a new version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which essentially provides a guide for gardeners and growers about which perennial plants ...

The importance of hardiness zones lies in their ability to help gardeners and farmers choose plants that will thrive in their specific region.