When planning your yard or garden, you likely focus on the what and the where. After all, a beautiful plant in a prime ...

When you’re shopping for trees, shrubs or perennials, the hardiness zone should be one of the first things you check.

While this region is is getting a break in winter weather this month February, the beginning of the year brought some pretty frigid temperatures. "You may not think about your plants out in the lawn ...

Know that even if your plant survives the frost, it may never match the photo you saw advertised at the nursery. Planting Zone Rule of Thumb Plant hardiness zone maps are, well, all over the map.

In November, the USDA updated its Plant Hardiness Zone map for the first time in over a decade. It ranges from 1a to 13b, and the majority of the United States falls between zones 4 and 8.

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 ...

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 ...

The best regions to practice dormant seeding in February include Northern and transitional areas where cool-season grasses ...

WELL, CHANGES COULD BE COMING TO LOCAL BUILDING CODES IN YOUR AREA AS THE STATE HAS UPDATED ITS FIRE HAZARD ZONES. CAL FIRE IS ROLLING OUT NEW MAPS THIS WEEK, SHOWING THE ZONES THAT ARE UPDATED ...