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 ...

look to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s recent update of its plant hardiness zone map, which has long helped gardeners and growers figure out which plants are most likely to thrive in a ...

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 ...