This is an excellent shrub to plant in spots that get saturated with pool deck runoff. In temperate zones, it makes an excellent container plant for the pool deck. This broadleaf evergreen climber ...

Knowing the temperate zone of their neighborhood can save homeowners time and money by helping them choose the right plants for the area in which they live. Before selecting plants for a landscape ...

“I am now able to grow perennials that were once two temperate zones south of me,” wrote William Borucki, of Buffalo. Raynard Vinson, of Hampton, Va., wrote: “I overwinter plants that once ...

Most of the popular plants are native to the tropics, but it’s entirely possible to use temperate zone plants from local ponds and bogs. Just as we recognize terrestrial garden “styles ...

Earth's climate zones—the horizontal belts of different climates that encircle the planet—consist of tropical, dry, temperate ... determining plant hardiness, and more. The Discovery of ...

Yet, 90% of current knowledge on the functional diversity of plants concerns only agricultural ecosystems and temperate zones. By contrast, drylands (see inset), making up 45% of the Earth’s ...

Like other Mediterranean zones — Southwest Australia, Western South Africa, Western Chile and, of course, the Mediterranean Basin — we share dry summers and temperate, wet winters generated by ...