Plant Growing Guides

Free guides for growing vegetables, herbs, flowers, and more. 218 plants. New to gardening? Check out the glossary.

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Type Vegetable Herb Flower Fruit Vine Shrub Tree Succulent Grass

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

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Acid-loving ferns

Various species (e.g., Polystichum, Dryopteris, Osmunda)

Acid-loving Perennials (Ferns)

Polypodiophyta (various genera)

Northern Maidenhair Fern

Adiantum pedatum

Aphrodite Hosta

Hosta 'Aphrodite'

Archangel

Lamium album subsp. album

Asarum

Asarum spp.

Canadian wild ginger

Asarum canadense

Asarum Wild Ginger

Asarum canadense

Minutissimum Lady Fern

Athyrium filix-femina 'Minutissimum'

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Autumn Frost Hosta

Hosta 'Autumn Frost'

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Baby Bunting Hosta

Hosta 'Baby Bunting'

Baneberry

Actaea rubra

Berry-producing Understory Shrubs

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

Bishop's Weed

Aegopodium podagraria

Bishop's Weed Argenteum

Aegopodium podagraria 'Argenteum'

Bishop's Weed Variegatum

Aegopodium podagraria 'Variegatum'

Black Cohosh

Actaea racemosa

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Blue Cadet Hosta

Hosta 'Blue Cadet'

Blue Cohosh

Caulophyllum thalictroides

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Blue Ivory Hosta

Hosta 'Blue Ivory'

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Blue Mammoth Hosta

Hosta 'Blue Mammoth'

Blue Mouse Ears Hosta

Hosta 'Blue Mouse Ears'

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Blue Skies Hosta

Hosta 'Blue Skies'

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Blue Vision Hosta

Hosta 'Blue Vision'

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Blue Wedgewood Hosta

Hosta 'Blue Wedgewood'

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Bowl of Cream

Hosta 'Bowl of Cream'

Bracken Fern

Pteridium aquilinum

Broad Leaf Plantain

Plantago major

Bugle

Ajuga reptans

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Bunchberry Dogwood

Cornus canadensis

Calypogeia fissa

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Candy Hearts Hosta

Hosta 'Candy Hearts'

Cardamine

Cardamine species

Wavy Bittercress

Cardamine flexuosa

Cathedral Windows Hosta

Hosta 'Cathedral Windows'

Checkerberry

Gaultheria procumbens

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Cherry Berry Hosta

Hosta 'Cherry Berry'

Climax Hosta

Hosta 'Climax'

Conocephalum conicum

Cool-growing ferns

Various species (e.g., Polystichum, Dryopteris, Asplenium)

Canadian Dogwood

Cornus canadensis

Creeping Charlie

Glechoma hederacea

Creeping Wintergreen

Gaultheria procumbens

Curly Fries Hosta

Hosta 'Curly Fries'

Dancing Queen Hosta

Hosta 'Dancing Queen'

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Dark Green Hosta

Hosta sieboldiana and related cultivars

Dead Nettle

Lamium album

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Decorata Hosta

Hosta 'Decorata'

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