Plants covered with frost blankets at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on Amelia Island for this past weekend's freeze which sits in zone 9b representing expected minimum temperatures between 25 to 30 °F.

You can plant dormant trees and shrubs and sow native plant seeds in January to get a head start on your garden. Discover three fruit-producing plants and six native plants to add to your garden this ...

A new version of the Plant Hardiness Zone Map has just released by the the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and it's big news for gardeners who rely on the data to determine which plants can survive ...

Heat domes, atmospheric rivers, bomb cyclones, and polar vortex—you’re not crazy, the weather is. And last week, the USDA confirmed it by releasing an updated climate zone map for 2023. And for many ...

The USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) released an updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map in mid-November. This map is used to determine which plants will likely survive the winter in a particular ...

The latest edition of the USDA’s Plant Zone Hardiness Map, used by big growers and home gardeners alike, was released Wednesday, with zones in half the country changing. Just not those in most of ...

Farmers aren’t the only ones who start the day by checking the weather report. Backyard gardeners do it, too. We like to be warned if frosts or polar vortexes are headed our way. If all I grew were ...

Question: My husband bought a few plants at a nursery recently. There was a tag describing the USDA Climate Zone. I live in Sonoma 9a, but I saw other zones mentioned such as 9b and 10. There was also ...