Over winter, you can become a hummingbird's safe space by planting these winter blooms. These great cold weather nectar ...

With spring on the horizon, many gardeners are preparing for prolonged, hearty growing seasons in their region. The United States has a diverse ecological footprint, so growing seasons differ slightly ...

Q. What are microclimates and why are they important in gardening? Gardeners throughout the U.S. should be familiar with the USDA plant hardiness zones which are based on minimum winter temperatures.

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For the first time since 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has revised its hardiness zone map that helps growers and gardeners determine which perennial plants are likely to thrive in ...

The latest version of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s plant hardiness map illustrates a notably warmer shift in Maine’s coldest extreme minimum temperature since the last published update in 2012 ...

In 2023, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) updated its Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM) for the first time in 10 years. The new Map draws on more than 30 years of data, utilizing ...

If you are a gardener or farmer, you will know that the survival of many plants depends on how cold it gets during the winter. To help farmers and gardeners, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ...

This past winter was one of the warmest and wettest on record. What do these weather extremes mean for the plants in your garden? The answer isn’t simple. One tool to help is the U.S. Department of ...

If you are a gardener, as I am, minor-league version, you pay attention to the weather in the micro-climate that is your yard. Over the more than three decades here on the edge of the Arroyo Seco I ...