some thriving in temperatures down to USDA hardiness zone 5. These trees and shrubs rarely get pruned, making for low maintenance landscaping. How tall do they get? That depends on the variety ...

And last week, the USDA ... zones, separated by ten degrees. It starts with 1a (Alaska) and goes all the way up to 13b (Puerto Rico), and the mainland U.S. tends to live between zones 5 and ...

Hardiness zones are geographical areas divided up by climate that can be used to determine where different plants will grow best. The USDA Plant Hardiness ... in Zone 5 would find Zone 4 to ...

It also helps vendors of landscape plants to communicate to purchasers the range of zones for which particular plants are suited. The USDA described the latest map ... representing 5-degree ranges.

“This translated into about half of the country shifting to a warmer 5-degree half zone ... Some plants require a lot of water, while others prefer a desert-type environment. The USDA Hardiness ...

Each zone also has half-zones, with 5 degrees of difference ... were to pick one parameter for woody plants, that would be it," said Peter Bretting, the USDA's national program leader for crop ...

"The 2012 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map is the standard by which gardeners and growers can determine which plants are most likely to thrive at a location. The map is based on the average annual ...

Indiana has been a zone 5 or 6 for the past 30 years at least ... no. Overall the change is not big enough to danger your plants. This new classification from the USDA is an update over the past 11+ ...

But the map will give new guidance to growers about which flowers, vegetables and shrubs ... Credit: USDA On the 2012 map, most of Long Island was in zone 7a, with winter lows of 0 to 5 degrees..