Squash
Cucurbita spp.
Grow Squash by deciding whether you want tender summer fruit or mature winter storage fruit, then matching space, pollination…
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Plants for USDA Zone 9
These profiles state a hardiness range that includes Zone 9. Use the category and search filters, then check light, water, mature size, and local heat on the profile.
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73 matches for Zone 9
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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…
Tradescantia Nanouk
Tradescantia albiflora 'Nanouk'
Tradescantia Nanouk is the candy-colored trailing plant that grows absurdly fast — thick, succulent stems with pink, purple, and…
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…
Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
Gardeners often baby perennials, but Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) thrives on a little neglect.
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