When you’re shopping for trees, shrubs or perennials, the hardiness zone should be one of the first things you check.

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But in recent years we have not seen lows of even minus 20 degrees, so I am willing to try some Zone 5 plants. Elsewhere I planted a kousa dogwood, a Zone 5 plant that I have tried and lost to ...