When you're planting your garden, you want to give your plants the best chance of thriving. Some places are too cold for certain plants, and others are too warm. So how do you know what's just ...

The first frost date of the fall is usually between 17 - 31 October, while the last frost date of the spring is usually about 1 -21 April. In zone 6, there are so many plants from which to select that ...

When you see 'Zone 6' or 'Z6', this refers to a hardiness zone, and is a guide to the winter temperatures that the plant will survive. But what does it mean? Hardiness zones create a way for us to ...

Most gardening books, catalogs, and seed packets refer to plant hardiness zones, climate zones, or growing zones. Temperature hardiness climate zones are based on normally expected high and low ...

Look at the heat zone map, and you’ll see that Chicago barely falls into zone 5 while most of the state lies in zones 6 and 7. So plants and grasses that do well in southern Illinois aren’t ...