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Plants for USDA Zone 5

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77 matches for Zone 5

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Pieris shrub with red new leaves and drooping white spring flower chains in partial shade

Shrubs

Pieris

Pieris japonica

Pieris belongs in cool, acidic, partly shaded beds where red new growth and hanging spring flower chains can carry the show.

USDA Zones 5-8
A backyard plum tree with ripening purple-red plums clustered among green leaves

Fruits

Plum Tree

Prunus domestica

Plum trees are rewarding backyard stone fruits when the type, pollination partner, sun, pruning, and disease plan match the site…

Commonly Zones 4-9, cultivar dependent
Dense mature privet hedge clipped with a broad base and gently narrower top along a suburban yard

Shrubs

Privet

Ligustrum spp.

Privet can make a fast dense hedge, but it should not be the default privacy answer.

USDA Zones 4-9, species dependent
Orange pumpkins maturing on broad vines in a sunny vegetable garden

Vegetables

Pumpkin

Cucurbita maxima

Grow Pumpkins by choosing the fruit job first, giving vines real ground, keeping water steady through fruit fill, and curing…

Warm-season annual in Zones 3-10
Mature red maple standing alone on a suburban lawn with its whole rounded crown turned brilliant scarlet in autumn, smooth gray trunk below and fallen red leaves on the grass

Trees

Red Maple

Acer rubrum

Red Maple is one of the quickest ways to grow a broad native shade canopy, especially on moisture-holding soil.

USDA Zones 3-9
Multi-stem River Birch with several leaning trunks in salmon and tan peeling bark, standing in a mown lawn beside a pond edge with a mulch ring at its base

Trees

River Birch

Betula nigra

River Birch (Betula nigra) is the birch that survives heat, humidity, and heavy wet clay, and its peeling salmon bark is the…

USDA Zones 4–9
Rose plant in bloom in a garden setting

Flowers

Rose

Rosa spp.

Garden roses range from compact landscape shrubs to climbers, hybrid teas, old garden roses, and container types.

Varies widely, commonly Zones 3-10 by cultivar
Rose of Sharon shrub with pink hibiscus flowers in a sunny late-summer mixed border

Shrubs

Rose of Sharon

Hibiscus syriacus

Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus) is a woody hibiscus that flowers on new shoots from July into early September, so it is pruned…

USDA Zones 5-9
Airy Russian sage stems with lavender-blue flowers in a dry sunny border

Perennials

Russian Sage

Salvia yangii

By mid to late summer, Russian Sage (Salvia yangii) throws up airy clouds of lavender-blue flowers just when many perennials…

USDA Zones 5-9
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