Plant Growing Guides

Free guides for growing vegetables, herbs, flowers, and more. 20 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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Oak Fern

Gymnocarpium dryopteris

Old Fashioned Bleeding Heart

Dicentra spectabilis

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Orange Marmalade Hosta

Hosta 'Orange Marmalade'

Ornamental Ferns

Pteridophyta (Division)

Hostas and Ferns (Ornamental Shade Plants)

Hosta spp. and Pteridophyta (ferns)

Ornamental Shrubs

Various species (Genus-dependent)

Osmunda fern

Osmunda regalis

Ostrich Feather

Matteuccia struthiopteris

Ostrich Fern

Matteuccia struthiopteris

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Sedge (Carex species)

Carex spp.

Ferns (General)

Pteridophyta (Division)

Fern (General Species)

Polypodiophyta (Division)

Mosses (General)

Bryophyta (Division)

Native Wildflowers (Regional Mix)

Various species (region-dependent)

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Other rock ferns

Polystichum acrostichoides and related species

Sedge (General)

Carex species

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Shade-Tolerant Plants (General Category)

Various species

Ornamental Shrubs (General Growing Guide)

Various species

Wildflowers and Native Plants

Various species (region-dependent)

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Oxlip

Primula elatior

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