Deciding what to grow — and when to plant it — starts with determining your hardiness zone. The U.S. Agriculture Department maintains a map that breaks the nation into growing zones based on ...

Look for stones between ¼- and 3/8-inch, says Adam Glas, a garden supervisor at the Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania ... the USDA plant hardiness zone map.

As winter holds Franklin County, PA, in its grip, local master gardeners are not idle. With the arrival of seed and plant ...

While this region is is getting a break in winter weather this month February, the beginning of the year brought some pretty ...

With the cold weather and the little bit of snow our area experienced over the past few days, perhaps it’s a good time to consider the cold hardiness of our landscape plants. The USDA Cold ...

They are based on temperature data over 30 years, with the newest hardiness zone map (2023) being based on weather data from 1991 to 2020. The recent cold temperatures (around -6 degrees in ...

Most of northeast Nebraska is in plant hardiness zones 5a or 5b. The USDA hardiness zone map is used by growers and gardeners to select trees, shrubs and perennials that will survive winter ...

A map shows predicted snowfall for Pennsylvania. On January 16, the National Weather Service in Pennsylvania alerted residents to possible snowfall in the forecast. A map shows predicted snowfall ...

Changes in the climate have also led to recent changes in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which shows geographic ranges where plants can survive. In the updated ...

Cal Fire's Fire Hazard Severity Zone map allows Californians to search for an address and see the location's probability of being affected by fire. The map specifically assesses fire hazard ...

Red zones on the map are under evacuation orders, meaning there is an immediate threat to your life in those areas. People in those areas must leave immediately, and no one other than first ...

What applies in North Mississippi, according to the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, doesn't apply for Central Mississippi or South Mississippi. North Mississippi is Zone 7, while Central ...