Texas has eight plant hardiness zones, ranging from the cold-hardy northwestern Panhandle to the warmer southern regions. Here's what to plant now. News Sports Hookem.com Austin360 Opinion ...

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North Texas gardening expert Neil Sperry, who writes a weekly column in the Star-Telegram, is a wealth of knowledge about ...

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Texas Star hibiscus is a striking, easy-to-grow perennial across many hardiness zones. A native plant to the Southeastern United States, you can find it growing in swampy, coastal areas from ...

Shrubs: Texas lantana (Carpellate urticoides) Trees: Gumbo limbo (Bursera simaruba), ... In 2023, just over a decade after the last update, the USDA republished the plant hardiness zone map.

Search any address or zip code in the USDA’s Plant Hardiness Zone Map, which includes Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. NOAA offers similar maps for the contiguous U.S., focused on shifts between ...

The concept of hardiness zones was first introduced in 1927 by Dr. Alfred Rehder. Rehder worked at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum as a botanical taxonomist.

Texas remains younger than other states, but the number of older Texans has outpaced that of any other age group.

Learn how to grow healthy hydrangeas in Southeast Texas with ... Tired of trying unsuccessfully to bring this plant into ... USDA Hardiness Zones: 4 through 9; size: 3 to 5 feet ...

Nothing lifts a garden’s mood quite like the burst of bright yellow blooms—even when the skies are gray. Yellow flowering ...

Politics & Policy Corpus Christi’s First Water-Desalination Plant Could Create “Dead Zones” The large-scale facility for removing salt from seawater is set to be built where experts have ...