Terry Skillin, president and owner of Skillin's Greenhouses in Brunswick, Cumberland and Falmouth, has begun to notice that local gardeners are having greater success growing more southern ...

Terry Skillin, president and owner of Skillin's Greenhouses in Brunswick, Cumberland and Falmouth, has begun to notice that local gardeners are having greater success growing more southern ...

On Wednesday, the Department of Agriculture unveiled what most gardeners had known for years: a new plant hardiness zone map that shows generally warmer winter low temperatures than the department ...

Plant hardiness zone map an important, but not tell-all tool for gardeners The 2023 map is about 2.5 degrees warmer than the 2012 map, translating into about half of the country shifting to a ...

The USDA is updating an important map for gardeners and growers picking plants and flowers. The new map shows the contiguous U.S. is about 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the last map 11 years ago.

Climate change also is projected to extend Maine’s growing season. Central Maine is expected to see its growing season increase from 176 days in 2000 to 223 days by 2100, an increase of 47 days ...

The new map reflects that many areas have become warmer since 1990, when the previous USDA hardiness zone map was published. Significant portions of many states have shifted a least one full zone ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Wednesday issued its new Plant Hardiness Zone Map, last updated in 1990. Syracuse and most of Central New York moved from zone 5a to zone 5b, which means winter ...