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USDA Unveils First New Plant Zone Map in Over a Decade


2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map for Wildlife-Friendly Gardening

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map serves as a fundamental guide for gardeners, offering insights into the climatic conditions of specific ...

New Zone Hardiness Map Released - becomes more useless than ...

It's always been a broad brush that papers over the edges between zones, local microclimates and management strategies.

Yesterday the US Dept. of Agriculture... - Native Plant Trust - Facebook

Yesterday the US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) released the first updated version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map since 2012. In the new map, ...

New hardiness zone map will help US gardeners keep pace with ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's ” plant hardiness zone map ” was updated Wednesday for the first time in a decade, and it shows the impact ...

New USDA Plant Hardiness Map Reflects Warming - Better Farm

Hardiness zone maps for the United States were developed during the 1920s and 1930s to help farmers plan for their regions' growing seasons. The ...

USDA Unveils New Plant Hardiness Zone Map - Tennessee Home ...

For the first time, the USDA zone map offers a Geographic Information System (GIS)-based interactive format and is specifically designed to be ...

New map of U.S. plant zones shows a warmer Massachusetts - WBUR

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has updated its Plant Hardiness Zone Map — the first revision since 2012.

What are the horticultural implications of the USDA's updated Plant ...

“Hardiness zones in this map are based on the average annual extreme minimum temperature during a 30-year period in the past, not the lowest ...

what zone are you? a new usda hardiness map - A Way To Garden

The new Plant Zone Hardiness Map draws on data from 1976-2005—in initial calculations, adding more recent years didn't affect the outcome— ...

New USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map unveiled - Westside News

The new Plant Hardiness Zone Map from the USDA includes some changes from the previous one released in 2012. Knowing the lowest temperatures for your area can ...

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map – Changes in the 2012 Edition

The new version of the map includes 13 zones, with the addition for the first time of zones 12 and 13. Each zone is still a 10-degree F band, further divided ...

USDA Unveils New Plant Hardiness Zone Map

FYI all... USDA Unveils New Plant Hardiness Zone Map WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2012--The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today released the ...

A Gardener's Guide to the New USDA Hardiness Zone Map

I'm excited to share some important news that will certainly impact our gardening decisions. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has ...

Native Plant Trust - Yesterday the US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA ...

Yesterday the US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) released the first updated version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map since 2012. In the new map, about half...

New Plant Hardiness Zones for the 2024 Gardening Season

A Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM, the USDA acronym) provides information about average annual minimal temperatures in specific areas. This means ...

New USDA Zone Maps (gardening for beginners forum at permies)

The zones are calculated based on 30 years of temperature data (1991 to 2020). For each year, the lowest temperature of the year is recorded.

Agribusiness Management Resources: Plant Hardiness Maps

Editorial-opinion "IT'S CLEAR at first glance that the draft version of the 2003 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map bears little resemblance to its ...

Understanding the Updated USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map

Did your hardiness zone change in the newly updated USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map? Wondering what this means for your plantings of cool ...

New Zone Hardiness Map Released - becomes more useless than ...

When you average those out, it ends up around -10, which is right on the cusp of 6a. Of course, if a plant is going to die at -15, it may live ...