When planning your yard or garden, you likely focus on the what and the where. After all, a beautiful plant in a prime ...

When you’re shopping for trees, shrubs or perennials, the hardiness zone should be one of the first things you check.

In November, the USDA updated its Plant Hardiness Zone map for the first time in over a decade. It ranges from 1a to 13b, and the majority of the United States falls between zones 4 and 8.

This includes the upper two-thirds of the United States also known as hardiness zones 1-6, according to the USDA’s Plant Hardiness Zone Map. "When putting down dormant seeds in February ...

Most of northeast Nebraska is in plant hardiness zones 5a or 5b. The USDA hardiness zone map is used by growers and gardeners to select trees, shrubs and perennials that will survive winter ...

Red zones are predicted in New York, Kansas and Virginia as a winter storm continues to grow in the United States.