When you’re shopping for trees, shrubs or perennials, the hardiness zone should be one of the first things you check.
with the newest hardiness zone map (2023) being based on weather data from 1991 to 2020. The recent cold temperatures (around -6 degrees in central Illinois) are “normal” for this part of the ...
The USDA just updated their plant hardiness zone map for the first time since 2012, and there have been some major changes.
Interestingly, the first edition of the plant hardiness zone map was created by Arnold Arboretum at Harvard in 1927! And ...