When you're planting your garden, you want to give your plants the best chance of thriving. Some places are too cold for certain plants, and others are too warm. So how do you know what's just right ...

Freezing weather may make it hard to believe, but many Chicago-area gardeners — and their plants — are now living in a slightly warmer world, according to a new version of the USDA’s plant hardiness ...

On Nov. 15, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a revised version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map. This map is what home gardeners, as well as professional growers, use to determine which ...

Choosing plants that are well-suited to the local climate is an important step to having a successful garden. Considering the zones where the plant can perform at its best is a good place to start as ...

Fall is typically known as harvest season, but you can plant plenty of fruit trees in your backyard during this season.

BURLINGTON, Conn. (WFSB) - USDA plant hardiness zones categorize areas based on their average minimum winter temperatures. But with our warming climate many parts of our state have moved to higher ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released the latest version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map — the first update since 2012. The familiar color-coded map helps gardeners, farmers and ...

Colorado gardeners eyeing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which moves much of the state in a warmer growing zone, should hold their horses — or trowels — before ...

“I’m counseling to take this as a very slight warming, very little change,” said Chris Daly, founder of the PRISM Climate Group at Oregon State University, which produced the hardiness zone map along ...

Recent cold temperatures may have some wondering about the effects on landscape plants. In general, uniformly cold temperatures will not damage dormant and hardy plants. Low temperature injury is more ...

The last few weeks have certainly been disruptive in the Heartland. Traffic and commerce have been hampered by ice and snow, schools have been closed, events have been canceled, and weather ...