When picking plants to grow in your garden, it’s easy to just go with what you like or whatever plants your neighbors grow.

Most nurseries and garden stores in our area use the USDA zones. We live in a time of warming climate, although you might feel like the opposite is true for this winter and early spring.

As climate change warms the Earth, plant hardiness zones are shifting northward. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its plant hardiness zone map, which shows where various plants will ...

Zones are further broken up into half zones, A and B. In comparison to the 2012 maps, the 2023 map shows nearly half of the US shifted up a half zone, and the other half remained in the same half zone ...