Plant Growing Guides

Free guides for growing vegetables, herbs, flowers, and more. 25 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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Mahonia

Mahonia aquifolium

Japanese Mahonia

Mahonia japonica

Cascades Mahonia

Mahonia nervosa

Cascades Mahonia

Mahonia nervosa

Mahonia 'Charity'

Mahonia × media 'Charity'

Male Fern

Dryopteris filix-mas

Mapleleaf Viburnum

Viburnum acerifolium

Marginal Plants: Sedges and Rushes

Carex spp. and Juncus spp.

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Melic Grass, Purple Melic Grass

Melica uniflora

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Midnight at Noon Hosta

Hosta 'Midnight at Noon'

Bowles' Golden Grass

Milium effusum

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Minima Yew

Taxus baccata 'Minima'

Minuet Hosta

Hosta 'Minuet'

Moisture-retaining mosses

Bryophyta (division) - various species

Mondo Grass

Ophiopogon japonicus

Moonlight Hosta

Hosta 'Moonlight'

Moss

Bryophyta (Division)

Mosses and Liverworts

Bryophyta (mosses) and Marchantiophyta (liverworts)

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Moss Ground Cover

Bryophyta (division)

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Moss Groundcover

Bryophyta (various species)

Mountain Laurel

Kalmia latifolia

Mountain Laurel Bobo

Kalmia latifolia 'Bobo'

Mountain Laurel Minuet

Kalmia latifolia 'Minuet'

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Mountain Pieris

Pieris floribunda

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Mouse Ears Hosta

Hosta ventricosa 'Variegata'

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