Despite the frigid temperatures and white blankets we experienced in central Ohio, plants and insects are expected to survive.

Perennial plants such as trees ... Such damage will not be noticeable until the snow melts. Accumulated ice on landscape plants can be more damaging to plant health than snow and cold temperatures.

Between roughly 1550 and 1880, Britain was in the grip of what has become popularly known as the Little Ice Age — a period of intensely cold winters. Forget treetops glistening, frosts were ...