"Zone Defense-Your Garden is More then a Number," with Mary Schier from Minnesota State Horticultural Society
Mon, Oct 12
|Lakeville Heritage Center
Recent changes in the US Department of Agriculture cold hardiness map have left many gardeners confused. Come and learn about how you can adapt your gardens to shifting conditions and cimates.
Time & Location
Oct 12, 2026, 6:15 PM – 8:30 PM
Lakeville Heritage Center, 20110 Holyoke Ave, Lakeville, MN 55044, USA
Guests
About the Event
About the Speaker:
Mary Lahr Schier is a Minnesota gardener, writer and editor and author of The Northern Gardener, From Apples to Zinnias, 150 Years of Garden Wisdom (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2017), winner of the Silver Award of Merit from GardenComm in 2018. For 18 years, she edited Northern Gardener magazine. She has hosted a gardening podcast and currently writes on substack.com as well as on her blog mynortherngarden.com. Mary has been gardening seriously since the 1990s. After moving to a suburban townhouse in 2022, Mary does her gardening in containers, in a community garden and as a volunteer gardener.
Topic:
Zone Defense: Your Garden is More Than a Number
Recent changes in the U.S. Department of Agriculture cold hardiness zone map left many gardeners confused. About half the United States had shifted a half zone warmer, making a significant part of Minnesota now a USDA Zone 5. Is it…