When picking plants to grow in your garden, it’s easy to just go with what you like or whatever plants your neighbors grow.

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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is responsible for creating a plant hardiness zone map. This tool divides ... Here are some popular North American native plants for growing ...

The USDA’s winter hardiness zone map has long been the standard used by home gardeners, plant breeders and researchers ... and horticultural education, North Dakota and Minnesota were mostly ...

Efforts to delineate geographical differences in climate and to correlate with plant hardiness ... Shrubs Hardy in North America.” It included a map of eight hardiness zones, each differing ...

This winter, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a new Plant Hardiness Zone Map, considered to be a ... I can put it on the north side of my house,'" she said. "The north side of your ...

Last month, there was big news in the plant world, and while it shows the weather has been warming in recent years in Southeastern North Carolina ... Agriculture's USDA plant hardiness zone map.

With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating ... of Agriculture’s recent update of its plant hardiness zone map, which has long helped gardeners and growers figure ...

Plant labels, catalogs, books and websites all classify plants according to the USDA hardiness zones ... change. All zones across the country moved north on the new map, the first revision ...

In November, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a new version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map ... about how to use the map. Madeline Heim is a Report for America corps reporter who ...