Knowing where your home is on the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map is important, but so is understanding your Southern climate zone if you want to choose perennials, trees, and shrubs that will ...

Question: How can I make sure I am buying landscape plants that are adapted to our climate? Answer: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has developed a climate zone map so we can select plants that ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has developed a climate zone map to help with plant selection. The “Sunset Western Garden Book” has also developed a different climate zone map for Western ...

With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the gardening and landscaping section of home improvement stores, where displays are overstocked with eye-catching seed ...

Q: Could you please explain climate zones and how important it is to select plants appropriate for your climate zone? When I shop for plants online, I make sure that the plant will grow in Zone 9 ...

Click the downloadable graphic: Shifting Planting Zones Map Planting zones shifting north across the U.S. As our climate warms due to heat-trapping carbon pollution, planting zones have shifted ...

These are further divided into 5°F half zones to provide more detailed guidance. For example: Maps generated by Climate Central show that as our climate has warmed due to heat-trapping carbon ...

Comparing the 2023 map to the previous version from 2012 clearly shows that as climate change warms the Earth, plant hardiness zones are shifting northward. On average, the coldest days of winter ...