FARGO — The U.S Department of Agriculture has changed the Plant Hardiness Zone Map for our area. The guide is based on which perennial plants can survive in each area's average annual extreme minimum ...

Climate change complicates plant choices and care. Early flowering and late freezes can kill flowers like these magnolia blossoms. Matt Kasson, CC BY-ND With the arrival of spring in North America, ...

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Late last November, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released an updated Plant Hardiness Zone map for the United States. Gardeners use this map to determine which plants and specific ...

Last November, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released an updated version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map. A joint venture of USDA’s Agricultural Research Service and Oregon State University’s ...

Are you getting ready to plant your spring bulbs? If so, you might want to check up on which plant zone you're in. A plant zone, or hardiness zone, is a region with a similar average minimum ...

Jul. 5—Nothing makes makes many want to dig in the dirt like the rows on rows of colorful potted plants they see in a nursery or home improvement store each year. But before they dig, they need to ...

With spring on the horizon, many gardeners are preparing for prolonged, hearty growing seasons in their region. The United States has a diverse ecological footprint, so growing seasons differ slightly ...

As spring nears, many are wondering what we should or shouldn't grow now that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has updated its plant zone hardiness map and moved parts of Minnesota from Zone ...

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 ...

Gardeners will have an updated roadmap to help them plan next year as Natural Resources Canada has released an update to its plant hardiness zones map. The last map came out in 2014 and, since then, ...