Climate Connection: Plant hardiness 03:52. The United States is divided into 13 different plant hardiness zones, each with "A" and "B" subdivisions.This is a number assigned to a plant that tells ...

Zone 9a and 9b – Found along the Gulf Coast, South Texas, and the Rio Grande Valley. Zone 10a – Found in the southern tip of Texas, near Brownsville. Find your zone by zip code.

Texas has eight plant hardiness zones, ranging from the cold-hardy northwestern Panhandle to the warmer southern regions. Here's what to plant now.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The USDA recently updated their Plant Hardiness Zone Maps (PHZM) to reflect the latest 30-year averages published by the National Weather Service. This map looks at the average ...

The new USDA map of plant hardiness zones switches Austin from 8B to 9A, which indicates shorter winters and longer growing season. News Sports Hookem.com Austin360 Opinion Advertise Obituaries ...

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Most folks are probably done with talking about the cold, and believe me, I get that. I am, too. I got it last year. And I absolutely, positively, and certainly got it back in 2021 when that ...

Thirty years later in 1990, the USDA released an updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map. This map took data from close to 8,000 weather stations and used data from the period from 1974 to 1986.

Shrubs: Texas lantana (Carpellate urticoides) Trees: Gumbo limbo (Bursera simaruba), ... In 2023, just over a decade after the last update, the USDA republished the plant hardiness zone map.

Zone 8a and 8b – Include Central Texas, parts of North Texas, and much of East Texas. Zone 9a and 9b – Found along the Gulf Coast, South Texas, and the Rio Grande Valley. Zone 10a – Found in ...

The 1990 USDA Hardiness Zone Map may still be the most accurate locally.j But it doesn’t stop there… There are a couple of other important factors that need to be mentioned in all of this.