USDA growing zones are important for figuring out what to plant and when in your area. However, with recent changes, what you can plant may have changed, too.

West Tennessee: The southern part, including Memphis, is designated an 8a zone, ... Southern Living has suggestions of what to grow in your hardiness zone and it's as easy as entering your zip code.

Plant for Zones 8a or 7b, plants that can survive a winter temperature of 5 F or 10 F. You'll have better odds of not having to replace that plant (i.e., buy it again) over the next decade.

The USDA divides North America into 11 hardiness zones. Zone 1 is the coldest; zone 11 is the warmest. ... If you pull the USDA hardiness zone map I (Debbie) show to be in Zone 8a ...

London has been gardening for 26-years, and she's seen her region warming. Sponsor Message. In the new map, London's region in central Arkansas has moved from zone 7b to zone 8a.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture updated its plant-hardiness-zone map for the U.S. for the first time in more than a decade. The new map appears to reflect a warming climate ...

It contains four plant hardiness zones, and all have shifted to reflect warmer temperatures. For example, ... Cape May at the state’s southern tip has moved from 7b to 8a, ...

New plant hardiness zone map to help NC gardeners, farmers keep pace with climate change ... Parts of inland Pender County are still in Zone 8a, which shows winter lows can dip to 10-15 degrees.

The 2012 map had me in Zone 8a (10 to 15 degrees) — while way back in 1990, I was in Zone 7b (5 to 10 degrees). Another example: Williamsburg, ZIP code 23185, has seen its zone change from 7a to ...

Hardiness zones are routinely listed on plant tags and labels. Up to now, most of central Pennsylvania has fallen into Zone 6, indicating that our winters historically bottomed out, on average ...

In Tennessee, the state ranges in four different zones, 6a (-10 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit) in the highest altitude of the mountains to 8a (10-15 degrees Fahrenheit) in southern parts of the state.