Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Perennial flowers may be expensive but are well worth the investment. Summer perennials come back year after year, and many are ...

Zones are divided into 5-degree F half zones, which are lettered "a" (northern) or "b" (southern). For example, the coldest hardiness zone in the lower 48 states on the new map, 3a, covers small ...

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With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the gardening and landscaping section of home improvement stores, where displays are overstocked with eye-catching seed ...

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 ...

Longtime master gardener John Nash, with more than 65 years of digging in the dirt, is a bit concerned that gardeners will take the news that they might be in slightly warmer zones for cold-hardy ...

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 ...

With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the gardening and landscaping section of home improvement stores, where displays are overstocked with eye-catching seed ...