Terry Skillin, president and owner of Skillin's Greenhouses in Brunswick, Cumberland and Falmouth, has begun to notice that local gardeners are having greater success growing more southern ...

Maine forestry officials are planning a wide expansion of quarantine zones to try to prevent the spread of three invasive forest pests that pose threats to the state’s timber industry.

Maine warmer for plants, but let’s not go bananas The USDA releases a new map that shifts parts of the state to milder zones, giving gardeners more options. Posted January 26, 2012 ...

From the coast to mountains and from mild climates to nearly arctic conditions, Maine encompasses more than a hundred types ...

Hardiness Zones 101. The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map consists of 13 individual zones that take in all of the contiguous United States, plus Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine forestry officials are planning a wide expansion of quarantine zones to try to prevent the spread of three invasive forest pests that pose threats to the state’s timber ...

Your home doesn’t have to look farm-like either, thanks to crops we call edimentals. The East Coast has a cornucopia of edible crops that also look right at home tucked in with your ornamental ...

NORWAY — The Twenty-First Annual Plant Sale at First Universalist Church of Norway will be on Saturday, June 7, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and will include a wide array of hardy Maine indoor and ...

The USDA 2012 Plant Hardiness Zone Map. USDA The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map divides the United States and Canada into 13 zones, based on the average annual minimum winter temperature.

A Tom's of Maine sign is seen at the manufacturing plant in Sanford, Maine, on March 28, 2006. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption ...

For the first time since 2012, a new Plant Hardiness Zone Map has been released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The map, released Nov. 15, 2023, is a tool used by gardeners and growers ...