When picking plants to grow in your garden, it’s easy to just go with what you like or whatever plants your neighbors grow. The problem is that not all kinds of plants grow well on where you live.

Maps generated by Climate Central show that as our climate has warmed due to heat-trapping carbon pollution, plant hardiness zones have shifted north toward higher latitudes and elevations.

When choosing plants for gardens, plant tags and catalogues often include the USDA's hardiness zones to show where that plant ideally grows. U.S. growing zones Zone 1: -60°F to -50°F ...

Plant hardiness zones in Wisconsin range from 6a, which denotes an average minimum temperature of -5 to -10 degrees, to 3b, which is an average minimum of -30 to -35 degrees.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map divides North America into 13 zones based on the average annual minimum winter temperature. In 2023, the USDA released an updated hardiness zone map in response ...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is responsible for creating a plant hardiness zone map. This tool divides the country into 13 color-coded areas based on their average extreme ...

Plant hardiness zones in north Alabama have recently changed from 7A to 8A. The United States Department of Agriculture recently updated its plant hardiness zone map, which tells gardeners what ...

The map is focused on just one measure: the average annual extreme minimum temperature, says Chris Daly, a geospatial climatologist at Oregon State University whose PRISM Climate Group creates the map ...

Plant hardiness zones across the country (at least the lower 48 states) have moved north for the last three updates as temperatures warm. The new map also has data from twice the number of weather ...

The plants that thrive best where you live might not be the same as the past several years - after the U.S. Department of Agriculture updated its Plant Hardiness Zone map in November.

INDIANA, USA — Indiana is now mostly a Zone 6 state (both a and b) according to the United States Department of Agriculture's latest plant hardiness zone map. It was updated in November 2023, so this ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's plant hardiness zone maps are used to determine which perennial plants will grow best at a given location regarding the average extreme minimum winter temperature.