Late last November, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released an updated Plant Hardiness Zone map for the United ... of the long-term effects of climate change.

Q: Could you please explain climate zones and how important ... use plants appropriate for a different zone? These zones apply across the entire United States and can help you decide whether ...

Climate change may be a factor ... showing that about half the United States had moved into a slightly warmer zone. The hardiness map is considered the gold-standard resource for understanding ...

The “Sunset Western Garden Book” has also developed a different climate zone map for western states. Since “Sunset Garden Book” has the most complete selection of landscape plants ...

The United States ... Hardiness Zone assigned to your purchase on the label. In the fall of last year, the USDA rezoned North Texas for the second time in just over a decade. As the climate ...

If you look at the USDA climate zone or Sunset climate zone map, you will note that one zone is separated from the next by “average winter temperature.” Zone 1 has the coldest average winter ...