Plant hardiness zones are rules that inform gardeners what plants can withstand the local weather. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) designed a map that separates North America into zones ...

The USDA divides the United States into seven planting regions, known as hardiness zones, which were most recently updated in 2023. The maps below show these planting regions. North Central US ...

With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the gardening and landscaping section of home improvement stores, where displays are overstocked with eye-catching seed ...

Plant hardiness zones in Wisconsin range from 6a, which denotes an average minimum temperature of -5 to -10 degrees, to 3b, which is an average minimum of -30 to -35 degrees.