When picking plants to grow in your garden, it’s easy to just go with what you like or whatever plants your neighbors grow.

Question: How can I make sure I am buying landscape plants that are adapted to our climate? Answer: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has developed a climate zone map so we can select plants that ...

Q: Could you please explain climate zones and how important it is to select plants appropriate for your climate zone? When I shop for plants online, I make sure that the plant will grow in Zone 9 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has developed a climate zone map to help with plant selection. The “Sunset Western Garden Book” has also developed a different climate zone map for Western ...

Look for the Plant Hardiness Zone assigned to your purchase on the label. In the fall of last year, the USDA rezoned North Texas for the second time in just over a decade. As the climate is ...

The USDA website cautions that "changes in zones are not reliable evidence of whether there has been global warming," because climate changes are typically based on trends in overall average ...

Credit: USDA Comparing the 2023 map to the previous version from 2012 clearly shows that as climate change warms the Earth, plant hardiness zones are shifting northward. On average, the coldest ...