Squash
Cucurbita spp.
Grow Squash by deciding whether you want tender summer fruit or mature winter storage fruit, then matching space, pollination…
85 Published Matches
Plants for USDA Zone 6
These profiles state a hardiness range that includes Zone 6. Use the category and search filters, then check light, water, mature size, and local heat on the profile.
Filter Zone 6 plants
Search checks common name, scientific name, and profile description. Category filters the published plant group.
Plant collection
85 matches for Zone 6
Hardiness is the first filter, not the final recommendation.
Sweet Potato
Ipomoea batatas
Sweet Potato grows from rooted slips rather than seed tubers, hides its entire crop under a vine mat until harvest, and only…
Sweetgum
Liquidambar styraciflua
Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) is a fast 60 to 75 ft native shade tree with star-shaped leaves and the best multi-color fall…
Tall Fescue
Festuca arundinacea (Schedonorus arundinaceus)
Homeowners across Zone 3-10 lean on Tall Fescue for a cool-season lawn that stays green without babying it every weekend.
Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum
The choice between a determinate and an indeterminate Tomato decides your support, your pruning, and whether the crop arrives all…
Viburnum
Viburnum spp.
Viburnum is not one shrub habit. The right species decides whether you get fragrance, berries, fall color, a screen, or a…
Watermelon
Citrullus lanatus
Watermelon asks for more ground and more heat than almost anything else in a home bed, and the two decisions that settle the crop…
Weeping Willow
Salix babylonica
Weeping Willow (Salix babylonica) grows quickly to 30 to 40 ft tall and as wide, which is why it looks like a bargain and so…
Weigela
Weigela florida
Weigela flowers in late spring on wood grown the year before, so the safe time for shaping cuts is right after the main bloom.
Use the shortlist