The U.S. government has updated its map of plant hardiness zones for the first time in more than a decade. The map sets out the average annual extreme minimum winter temperature across the country, ...

Knowing the precise time to get annual plants into the ground and whether or not a perennial will grow in a given location is often buried in local community lore, but the US Department of Agriculture ...

Late last November, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released an updated Plant Hardiness Zone map for the United States. Gardeners use this map to determine which plants and specific ...

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, as ...

From cool weather edibles and bare-root trees to flowering shrubs and summer annuals, these are the best plants to grow in ...

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 you how cold of a temperature the plant can ...

A few years ago, Holly Jones started studying the micro-climate and the topography on her family farm near Crawfordsville, ...

INDIANA, USA — New Plant Hardiness Zone maps updated by the US Department of Agriculture released this week show a drastically reduced Zone 5 throughout Indiana, while Zone 7 makes an appearance in ...

Unless you've got a heated greenhouse, you won't be able to grow citrus in Michigan or jasmine in New York for the simple fact that the winters are too cold. While the range limits of some plants are ...

One question that always stumps me is "What growing zone is Alaska in?" Funny thing is (well, to me), it's a question I get all the time. New gardeners are always confused by the idea of USDA ...