If you live in USDA hardiness zone 8 and are not sure what to plant, here is a comprehensive list of ones you should consider ...

The importance of hardiness zones lies in their ability to help gardeners and farmers choose plants that will thrive in their specific region.

Pine Hollow Arboretum’s founder, John W. Abbuhl, began planting trees around his Albany, N.Y., home in the 1960s. He planted ...

first published his “Manual of Cultivated Trees and Shrubs Hardy in North America.” It included a map of eight hardiness zones, each differing by five degrees, and representing the lowest mean ...

If you have ever tested your green thumb, you've probably taken at least a quick look at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's USDA plant hardiness zone map. The color-coded map, which covers the ...

The Plant Hardiness Zone Map was jointly developed by the USDA Agricultural ... He added that he drops a zone or goes even lower for trees that represent large investments, to ensure they survive ...

I prefer to use Sunset’s Western Garden climate zone maps. The Sunset plant hardiness zones are based ... your column about how brittle palo verde trees can be. My blue palo verde is still ...

Palm trees won’t survive winters in Indiana ... Winters with colder or warmer temperatures have and will continue to occur. Find the USDA Hardiness Zone Map at https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/.

Plant hardiness zones represent the 30-year average ... arborist or your state forestry service. Loading map data... Unlike most plants, trees outlive us. In this way, planting a tree is less ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture published a new version of its well-known Plant Hardiness Zone map earlier this month ... differences in conditions. Peach trees at Janna Anderson's South ...

The USDA's plant hardiness zone map shows the average lowest temperature ... to educate people on the appropriate plants and trees to plant in their yards or gardens, Kucharik said.