The U.S.D.A. updated its Plant Hardiness Zone Map last week for the first time in ... covering breaking news around the world.

The state Agriculture Commissioner says he regularly receives complaints from gardeners about their plants dying. The ...

Last month, there was big news in the plant world, and while it shows the ... the U.S. Department of Agriculture's USDA plant hardiness zone map. The color-coded map, which covers the entire ...

Daly also cautioned about using the 2023 map and its warmer zones as eividence of climate change. Climate change is real, he said. The world is warming up. But using the hardiness zone map as an ...

A hardiness zone is a geographic area with a similar average minimum temperature. The map is based on the average annual extreme minimum temperature, so people in those areas know which plants can ...

The importance of hardiness zones lies in their ability to help gardeners and farmers choose plants that will thrive in their specific region.

but many Chicago-area gardeners — and their plants — are now living in a slightly warmer world, according to a new version of the USDA’s plant hardiness zone map. “The map is a crucial ...

The USDA Hardiness Zone Map, the arbiter of cold hardiness for plants, underwent a massive revamping in November, throwing the gardening world into a bit of chaos. As a new gardening season dawns ...