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Plants for USDA Zone 5

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77 matches for Zone 5

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Backyard block of sweet corn with tassels above tall green stalks

Vegetables

Corn

Zea mays

Sweet corn only earns its space when the patch is big enough to pollinate itself and strong enough to stay watered through…

Annual in Zone 3-10
Cucumber vines climbing a trellis with yellow flowers and hanging green fruit

Vegetables

Cucumber

Cucumis sativus

Cucumber pays back fast when you make the right structural choice before planting: trellis or sprawl, slicer or pickler, direct…

Annual in Zones 3-10
Daffodil plant in bloom in a garden setting

Flowers

Daffodil

Narcissus spp.

Daffodils are hardy fall-planted bulbs grown for reliable spring flowers, deer resistance, and decades of return bloom.

Hardy in USDA Zones 3-8
Daylily clump with bright orange trumpet-shaped flowers on tall scapes in a sunny garden bed

Perennials

Daylily

Hemerocallis spp.

Brown, tired flower beds that burn out by July usually come from fussy plants that quit in heat or poor soil.

Zones 3-9
A small redbud in full spring bloom, its low spreading crown and bare branches covered in pink and magenta flowers opening straight from the wood

Trees

Eastern Redbud

Cercis canadensis

Eastern redbud is a small North American tree with pea-like flowers that open on bare twigs and older wood.

USDA Zones 4-9
Glossy purple eggplants hanging from staked plants in a sunny vegetable bed

Vegetables

Eggplant

Solanum melongena

Eggplant succeeds when you treat it as one of the hottest-slot crops in the whole yard.

Zone 3-10 as a warm-season annual
English lavender with purple flower spikes and silvery foliage in a sunny border

Flowers

English Lavender

Lavandula angustifolia

English Lavender is a woody Mediterranean subshrub grown for fragrant purple flower spikes, silvery foliage, pollinators, and…

Zones 5-9, protect near cold edge
Fern fronds growing in a shaded woodland garden

Perennials

Fern

Various fern genera and species

Ferns earn their place with texture, shade tolerance, and a calm green presence that softens woodland edges, foundation beds, and…

Most garden ferns fit USDA Zones 3-9
Close view of fescue lawn blades with some dry summer tips.

Lawn Grasses

Fescue

Festuca spp.

Fescue is not a grass, it is a genus. More than 450 species carry the name and about ten make turf, split into a coarse group led…

USDA Zones 3-10 across the genus