The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s new Plant Hardiness ... more detailed map that measures differences down to the half-mile. Pennsylvania as a whole ranges from a low of Zone 5b (the northern ...

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

Some plant tags contain a lot of information about the plant if you can interpret it while others may have a sticker saying ... There are several hardiness zone maps, although the one that we ...

It's called the U.S. Department of Agriculture's "plant hardiness zone map," and it's the national standard for gardeners and growers to figure out which plants are most likely to survive the ...

Zone 1a represents -60 degrees ... the vice president of horticulture for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and a consultant on the new map, said climate change is a factor.

The data, reflected in the updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map in November, helps gardeners, farmers, insurers and other officials decide what to plant, how much to charge farmers for crop insurance ...

What do the updates to the USDA plant hardiness map mean ... Last updated in 2012, the new map codifies warming temperatures for Massachusetts’ planting zones. So what does that mean for ...

The new updated map shows Crow Wing County and the counties surrounding it (most, but not all of Cass) are now in zone 4. Although the USDA hardiness map is a helpful tool, it doesn’t guarantee ...

This month, the USDA announced the newest iteration of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map; it offers a guide for gardeners and growers to determine which perennial plants will survive the winter.