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Knowing the precise time to get annual plants into the ground and whether or not a perennial will grow in a given location is often buried in local community lore, but the US Department of Agriculture ...
Simply input your zip code into the official, interactive USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map online. This is a more accurate way of checking than looking at the countrywide map because zones can vary ...
Learn More › Sometimes called “growing zones” or “gardening zones,” USDA plant hardiness zones refer to areas of a map developed ... Farmer’s Almanac by ZIP code.
About half of the country moved into a slightly warmer zone in the Agriculture Department’s new “plant hardiness” map ... right down to the ZIP code. Art DeGaetano, the director of the ...
You can enter your zip code on the USDA's Plant Hardiness Zone Map website to figure out the hardiness zone for your region. The site offers other tips for growers, too, including more detailed ...
Below is a map by zip code of the plant hardiness zones in Michigan. Rollover an area to see the city, current zone, and what the zone was in 2012. The last time the USDA released a map it used ...
To find out which zone includes your garden, search by ZIP code on the map at ... The new USDA plant hardiness zone map moves all of Chicago and most of central Illinois into the warmer Zone ...
In the news recently, the U.S. Department of Agriculture revised its plant hardiness zone map ... a search for my Virginia Beach ZIP code, 23455, shows me in Zone 8b (15 to 20 degrees at its ...
Plant growers and gardeners in the U.S. have new guidance for which perennial plants could flourish, or perish in their area. The U.S. Department of Agriculture published a new version of its well ...
A plant zone, or hardiness zone ... falls in and how to look up the plant hardiness in your zip code. Trouble seeing the map? Click here to view the planting zones for the North Central U.S ...
In November 2023 a new map was released. With some fanfare it encouraged us to enter our ZIP codes to see what ... I use the Plant Hardiness Zone Map and zone ratings all the time.