Plant Growing Guides

Free guides for growing vegetables, herbs, flowers, and more. 14 plants. New to gardening? Check out the glossary.

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Type Vegetable Herb Flower Fruit Vine Shrub Tree Succulent Grass

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

Zone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

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Jointed Sedge

Carex phyllocephala

Cleyera

Cleyera japonica

Creeping Groundcovers

Various species (e.g., Delosperma, Sedum, Ajuga, Thymus)

Dwarf Mondo Grass

Ophiopogon japonicus 'Nana'

Elephant Ear

Colocasia esculenta

Elephant Ear Black Magic

Colocasia esculenta 'Black Magic'

Hawaiʻi Tree Fern

Cibotium glaucum

Hawaiian Native Ginger

Zingiber zerumbet (Awapuhi) and other endemic species

Lilyturf 'Silvery Sunproof'

Liriope muscari 'Silvery Sunproof'

Native Australian Groundcovers

Various species (Myoporum parvifolium, Dichondra repens, Scaevola aemula, etc.)

Native Forbs and Wildflowers

Various species (polyphyletic group)

Pukatea

Laurelia novae-zelandiae

'Ōpelu

Peperomia species (commonly P. obtusifolia or P. polybotrya in Hawaiian cultivation)

Hawaiian sedge, Wāhine sedge

Carex wahuensis

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