You're ready to improve your home. Maybe you've already picked out new windows or planned that HVAC upgrade. Seems simple enough, right? Here's the thing though. What looks good on paper can quickly ...

Gardeners and farmers across the U.S. look to plant hardiness zones for guidance on which plants to grow. The U.S. is divided into 13 plant hardiness zones based on the local coldest temperature of ...

The newly updated Standard 169, Climatic Data for Building Design Standards, provides a variety of climatic information for designing, planning and sizing building energy systems and equipment. An ...

Question: My husband bought a few plants at a nursery recently. There was a tag describing the USDA Climate Zone. I live in Sonoma 9a, but I saw other zones mentioned such as 9b and 10. There was also ...

Discussion about climate classifications usually revolves around geographic location at a broad scale. One of the most popular climate classification systems, the Köppen system, divides earth into ...

Travel is always a gratifying experience for us plant lovers because of the many opportunities to learn something new about the botanical world. Not only are we introduced to plants that don’t grow in ...

Albert Van Dijk receives or has previously received funding from several government-funded agencies, grant schemes and programmes and undertakes occasional consultancies. Hylke Beck and Pablo Rozas ...