Climate Change Is Rewriting America’s Gardening Map and Some Plants Can’t Keep Up

Climate Change Is Rewriting America’s Gardening Map and Some Plants Can’t Keep Up

Warmer winter temperatures have altered frost patterns and growing seasons across the United States.

As Climate Changes, So Do Gardens Across the United States

Pine Hollow Arboretum’s founder, John W. Abbuhl, began planting trees around his Albany, N.Y., home in the 1960s. He planted species native to surrounding ecosystems but also made ambitious choices—bald cypresses, magnolias, pawpaws, sweetgums—that were more climatically suited to the southeastern United States. Now, those very trees are thriving, said Dave Plummer, a horticulturalist at Pine Hollow.  Other Pine Hollow trees, such as balsam firs…

Gardening with Chip Bubl

Herbs should have a place in your garden Herbs are, for the most part, easy to grow. Their needs are simple: plentiful sun, well drained soil, and periodic watering. Many of our herbs come from Mediterranean gardens and can handle heat and some lack of moisture. The aromatic oils in many of them were the plants’ way of storing energy when they shut down photosynthesis to conserve water on very hot...