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If you are wondering whether that shrub, flower, or tree that you saw in a magazine or catalog will grow well in your garden, using a hardiness zone map is your best bet to ensure success. A hardiness ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the gardening and landscaping section of home improvement stores, ...

The USDA’s winter hardiness zone map has long been the standard used by home gardeners, plant breeders and researchers to determine which plants are most likely to thrive in their location, based on ...

Plants in gardens and fields survive and thrive based on the weather where they grow. But as the coldest temperatures of winter gradually warm, those plants’ favored regions also change. If you have ...

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 ...

Sometimes called “growing zones” or “gardening zones,” hardiness zones refer to a map developed by the USDA that separates the United States into regions based on the average low winter temperatures.

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Plants covered with frost blankets at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on Amelia Island for this past weekend's freeze which sits in zone 9b representing expected minimum temperatures between 25 to 30 °F.

While this region is getting a break in winter weather this month February, the beginning of the year brought some pretty frigid temperatures. “You may not think about your plants out in the lawn or ...

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 ...