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Plants for USDA Zone 9

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73 matches for Zone 9

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Bulbing onions growing in loose garden soil with upright green tops

Vegetables

Onion

Allium cepa

Most failed Onion crops are not a watering mystery. They are a day-length mismatch or a late start.

Grown as annual, Zones 3-10
Peach tree with fruiting branches in a home orchard

Fruits

Peach Tree

Prunus persica

Peach trees are fast-bearing backyard fruit trees, but they are not plant-and-forget trees.

Commonly Zones 5-9, cultivar dependent
Green pea vines climbing a simple garden trellis in cool spring weather

Vegetables

Peas

Pisum sativum

Peas succeed when the whole crop is built around one short cool window. Sow into workable spring soil, give the vines support…

Cool-season annual, Zones 3-10
Green and red pepper fruits hanging on a staked garden plant

Vegetables

Pepper

Capsicum annuum

Pepper plants are not just smaller tomatoes. They pause in cold soil, drop flowers when stress hits fruit set, and ask you to…

Warm-season annual, Zones 3-10
Pittosporum tobira hedge with glossy evergreen leaves beside a warm garden walkway

Shrubs

Pittosporum Tobira

Pittosporum tobira

Japanese pittosporum (Pittosporum tobira) is a salt- and drought-tolerant evergreen for hedges and screens in Zones 8 to 10.

USDA Zones 8-10; 'Mojo' to Zone 7
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