Learning your Plant Hardiness Zone will help you choose plants that will grow well in your garden and avoid those that might not survive.

With that being said, it’s best not to wait until the last minute to stock up on fall essentials. That way, when the season does finally arrive, you can sit back and relax with ...

Summer-blooming perennials can outgrow their space or require replanting in a new spot due to light or water needs. Learn ...

In Winnipeg, the hardiness zone remains at zone 3b. Wait, what? If, as a gardener, you were half- expecting — even hoping — ...

Historically, the US growing zones indicated the cold hardiness of plants. Now the experts are considering whether to also include heat hardiness as part of the growing zone classifications.

Most gardening catalogs that use hardiness zones in plant descriptions use the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which was updated in 2023; it’s a system ...

Plant hardiness zone map an important, but not tell-all tool for gardeners The 2023 map is about 2.5 degrees warmer than the 2012 map, translating into about half of the country shifting to a ...

Canadian plant hardiness zones are rated from 0 through 9, the higher numbers indicating more moderate climates. Each number ...

Late summer gardens can be refreshed by adding annuals that will bloom until the first frost. Learn more about 11 common ...

The kind of plants you can grow have changed slightly in most regions of Canada according to the federal government’s latest ...