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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Silver-edged Houttuynia

Houttuynia cordata 'Argenteomarginata'

Bracken Fern

Pteridium aquilinum

Broad Leaf Plantain

Plantago major

Drought-tolerant native ferns

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

Green Moss

Various species (e.g., Hypnum cupressiforme, Bryum capillare, Dicranum scoparium)

Hawaiian Native Ginger

Zingiber zerumbet (Awapuhi) and other endemic species

Native Herbaceous Plants

Various species (region-dependent)

Native Liverworts

Marchantiophyta (Division)

Purple Cliff Brake

Pellaea atropurpurea

Shade-loving Ginger

Alpinia zerumbet, Zingiber mioga, Asarum spp., and other shade-tolerant ginger species

Shade-loving Herbs

Various species

Small Ferns (Shade-loving)

Pteridophyta (various genera including Adiantum, Polystichum, Asplenium)

Terrestrial Ferns

Polypodiopsida (division) - various genera including Polystichum, Dryopteris, Athyrium, Osmunda

Water-loving Ferns

Pteridophyta (multiple species)

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