Last month, there was big news in the plant world, and while it shows the weather has been warming in recent years in Southeastern North Carolina ... Agriculture's USDA plant hardiness zone map.

FARGO — The U.S Department of Agriculture has changed the Plant Hardiness Zone Map for our area ... Almost all of North Dakota, and a greater portion of Minnesota, have been bumped from Zone ...

The USDA’s winter hardiness zone map ... and horticultural education, North Dakota and Minnesota were mostly considered Zone 3, from the first USDA zone map created in 1960 through 1990.

The agency just released new maps showing the plant hardiness zones are shifting. Greensboro has gone from Zone 7 to the warmer Zone 8. Ben Grandon with the Guilford County Center of the NC ...

Though the majority of Cumberland County remains in the 7a zone, indicating average annual minimum winter temperatures from 0 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit, the new map offers growers additional ...

The government acknowledged the fact on Jan. 25 with the release of its updated Plant Hardiness ... Zone 8a for more than a decade by local garden experts. The new map shows all of Dallas and ...

Late last November, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released an updated Plant Hardiness Zone map for the ... experienced in southern North Carolina. If these models turn out ...

The Department of Agriculture released a new map detailing which plants can survive ... have now placed much of the Carolinas in a warmer zone. That means there is a lot more for gardening ...

That's the word from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which released a new version of its "Plant Hardiness Zone Map" this week, the first update since 1990. The color-coded zones on this map of ...