Plant library

Know what your plants need

Use structured growing information to match plants to your location, space, soil, and schedule.

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Zinnias

Easy annual flowers for sunny beds, cutting gardens, and long summer color.

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Marigolds

Reliable warm-season annuals for beds, borders, and vegetable garden edges.

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Sunflowers

Tall annual flowers grown for blooms, pollinators, and seed harvests in full sun.

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Cosmos

Airy, fast-growing annuals that bloom for months with very little attention.

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Lavender

A fragrant perennial for hot, sunny, well-drained sites and dried-flower use.

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Coneflowers

Long-lived perennial flowers that bloom through summer heat and support pollinators.

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Nasturtiums

Easy annuals with edible flowers and leaves, thriving in lean soil where others struggle.

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Petunias

Long-blooming annuals for beds, borders, and containers in full sun.

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Snapdragons

Cool-season spikes for spring and fall color and long-lasting cut flowers.

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Dahlias

Tuber-grown showstoppers that bloom from midsummer to frost and reward staking.

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Sweet peas

Fragrant cool-season climbers for trellises and cutting, best started very early.

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Calendula

A cool-season annual with edible orange and yellow blooms that keeps flowering until hard frost.

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Pansies

Cool-season flowers for spring and fall color in beds and containers, tolerant of light frost.

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Cornflowers

Old-fashioned cool-season annuals with true blue blooms, also sold as bachelor's buttons.

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Morning glories

Fast warm-season vines that cover trellises and fences with trumpet blooms by midsummer.

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Foxgloves

Tall biennial spires for the back of part-shaded borders. Every part of the plant is toxic.

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Hostas

Shade perennials grown for bold foliage, filling the dim corners where flowers struggle.

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Impatiens

The standard shade annual, blooming nonstop in low light from spring until frost.

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Daylilies

Nearly indestructible perennials that bloom for weeks and divide easily into more plants.

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Garden phlox

Midsummer perennial clusters with a sweet scent, worth the airflow they demand.

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Peonies

Long-lived perennials with huge late-spring blooms, often outliving the gardeners who plant them.

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Sedum

Succulent perennials that bloom in fall, shrug off drought, and feed late-season pollinators.

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Daffodils

Fall-planted bulbs that bloom reliably each spring and are ignored by deer and rodents.

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