Dear Reader: It needs time. Subtropical plants such as bottlebrush, loquats, figs, oleanders, and pomegranates, don’t always flower their first years after hard freezes and die-back. She should apply ...

Plants covered with frost blankets at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on Amelia Island for this past weekend's freeze which sits in zone 9b representing expected minimum temperatures between 25 to 30 °F.

On Nov. 15, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a new version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map, the first time it's done so since 2012. According to a release from the USDA, the new map ...