Plant Growing Guides

Free guides for growing vegetables, herbs, flowers, and more. 18 plants. New to gardening? Check out the glossary.

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Type Vegetable Herb Flower Fruit Vine Shrub Tree Succulent Grass

Sun ☀️Full Sun ⛅Part Sun/Shade ☁️Shade

Speed Quick (< 45d) Medium (45–70d) Long (70d+)

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False Hellebore

Veratrum viride

False Spirea Ostrich Plume

Astilbe × arendsii 'Ostrich Plume'

Fastigiate Yew

Taxus baccata 'Fastigiata'

Fatsia

Fatsia japonica

Japanese Aralia

Fatsia japonica

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Feather Boa Hosta

Hosta 'Feather Boa'

Female English Holly

Ilex aquifolium (female cultivars)

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Figwort

Scrophularia nodosa

Fire and Ice Hosta

Hosta 'Fire and Ice'

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First Frost Hosta

Hosta 'First Frost'

Flowering Dogwood Stellar Pink

Cornus florida 'Stellar Pink'

Flowering Shade Shrubs (Viburnum & Hydrangea)

Viburnum spp. & Hydrangea spp.

Flowering Understory Shrubs

Various species (e.g., Sambucus, Viburnum, Ilex, Cornus)

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Fortune's Hosta

Hosta fortunei

Fragile Fern

Cystopteris fragilis

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Fragrant Fern

Dryopteris fragrans

France Hosta

Hosta 'France'

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Frosted Mouse Ears Hosta

Hosta venusta 'Frosted Mouse Ears'

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