Plants for landscaping and gardens (254 / 549)

List of plants suitable for outdoor gardening and growing in the USDA winter hardiness zone 5b (−26.1 … −23.3 °C).

It must be borne in mind that some bulbs and fruit-bearing trees requires chilling period - minimum period of cold weather after which a plant will blossom. Also some seeds have chilling requirements to sprout, so not all plants are suitable for warmer zones.

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USDA zone: 5b

USDAANBGRHSPHZ	0a 2a 2b 3a 3b 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b 10a 10b 11a 11b 1 2 3 4 5 H7 H6 H5 H4 H3 H2 H1c 1a 3a 3b 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a
Type	tree shrub vine herbaceous berry grass
Usage	ornamental groundcover as houseplant toxic flowering fragrant fruit tree edible berry evening scent herb / spice border hedges containers bonsai screen
Sun	shade part shade full sun part sun
Cycle	perennial annual evergreen semi-evergreen
Moist	well drained moist moderately drained poorly drained well drained dry moist boggy wet damp average
Blooms	spring summer fall winter
Resists	deer disease drought heat insect cold humidity rabbit dry soil rocky soil salt soil / air clay soil sun deep shade wet soil mildew foot traffic slug

Herbaceous

• Horsetail Reed Grass
• Sapphire Skies Beaked Blue Yucca
• Bright Edge Yucca
• Brakelights® Red Yucca
• Yellow Yucca
• Japanese Painted Fern
• Empress Wu Giant Hosta Lily
• Fire Chief Heuchera
• Autumn Brilliance Fern
• Matthiola longipetala (night-scented stock)
• Evergreen Periwinkle
• Golden Creeping Jenny
• Black Scallop Ajuga Bugleweed
• Burgundy Glow Ajuga
• Catlins Giant Ajuga Bugleweed
• Bronze Beauty Ajuga
• Red Creeping Thyme
• Pink Chintz Thyme
• Elfin Creeping Thyme
• Emerald Goddess Liriope
• Autumn Fern
• Peach Crisp Heuchera
• Guacamole Hosta Lily
• Stained Glass Hosta Lily
• Fire Island Hosta Lily
• Sum and Substance Hosta Lily
• Cinnamon Fern
• Male Fern
• Patriot Hosta Lily
• Caramel Heuchera
• Godzilla Giant Japanese Painted Fern
• Silver Lemon Thyme
• Green Carpet Pachysandra (Japanese spurge)
• Goldsturm Black Eyed Susan Daisy
• Stella de Oro Daylily
• Pachysandra (Japanese spurge)
• Creeping Lilyturf
• Green Sheen Pachysandra (Japanese spurge)
• Ralph Shugert Variegated Periwinkle
• Royal Purple Liriope (Lilyturf)
• Monroe's White Liriope (Lilyturf)
• Silver Dragon Liriope
• Evergold Japanese Sedge
• Blue Angel Hosta Lily
• Fire & Ice Hosta Lily
• Red Yucca
• Wheee! Hosta Lily
• Dixie Wood Fern
• Strawberry Candy daylily
• Chocolate Chip Ajuga
• Coast To Coast Hosta Lily
• Aqua Taj Blue Bearded Iris
• Aster ericoides Snow Flurry
• Butterfly Blue Pincushion Flower
• Orange Butterfly Milkweed
• Creeping Alpine Cinquefoil
• The King Ostrich Fern
• Ivory Prince Helleborus
• Forever Red Heuchera
• Woolly Creeping Thyme
• Martin's Spurge Ascot Rainbow
• Little Moonshine Yarrow (Achillea)
• Cheyenne Spirit Coneflower

Vine

• Sweet autumn clematis
• Missing October Virginia creeper
• Peaches & Cream Fragrant Honeysuckle
• Catawba Grape Vine
• Climbing Hydrangea Petiolaris
• Major Wheeler Red Trumpet Honeysuckle
• John Clayton Yellow Honeysuckle Vine
• Pink Champagne (Kakio) Clematis
• Tranquilite Clematis
• Amethyst Falls Wisteria Vine
• Mandarin Orange Honeysuckle Vine
• Teardrop Ivy
• English Ivy
• Anne Marie White Variegated Ivy
• Golden Ingot Ivy
• Mars Seedless Grape
• Reliance Red Seedless Grape Vine
• Baltic Ivy
• Needlepoint English Ivy
• Cardinal Wyszynski Clematis
• Fleuri Clematis
• Samaritan Jo Clematis
• Canadice Red Seedless Grape Vine
• Niagara Seedless Grape Vine
• Roseum Pink Climbing Hydrangea
• Concord Grape Vine
• Madame Galen Trumpet Vine
• Grandiflora Montana Clematis
• Rebecca Clematis
• Asao Clematis
• Magnifica Honeysuckle Vine
• Olympia Clematis
• H. F. Young Clematis

Shrub

• Color Guard Yucca
• Purple Wintercreeper
• Aphrodite Sweetshrub (Carolina Allspice)
• Apache Thornless Blackberry
• Pink Lemonade Blueberry
• Little Heath Pieris Japonica
• Ruby Spice Summersweet Clethra
• Lynwood Gold Yellow Bells Forsythia
• Black Knight Butterfly Bush
• Cranrazz Butterfly Bush
• Flaming Silver Pieris japonica
• Skeeter's Broom Japanese Maple
• Mock Orange
• Ouachita Thornless Blackberry
• Prime Ark Traveler Blackberry Plant
• Hilda Niblett Azalea
• The Georgia Peach Shrub Rose
• Paul's Gold Threadleaf false cypress
• Navaho Thornless Blackberry
• Phenomenal lavender
• Popcorn Drift Groundcover Rose
• Pink Delight Butterfly Bush
• Pugster Blue Butterfly Bush
• Sunrosa Yellow Dwarf Shrub Rose
• Gold Mop Threadleaf Cypress
• Buddleia Flutterby Petite Blue Heaven Dwarf Butterfly Bush
• Natchez Thornless Blackberry
• Popcorn Snowball Viburnum Bush
• Miss Molly Butterfly Bush
• Buddleia Flutterby Petite Tutti Fruitti Dwarf Butterfly Bush
• Lo & Behold Blue Chip Junior Butterfly Bush
• Viridis Dwarf Green Japanese Maple
• Bar Harbor Juniper
• Staked Green Mound Japanese Garden Juniper
• Blue Rug Juniper
• Green Mound Juniper
• Blue Star Juniper
• Parsons Juniper
• Reeves Bridal Wreath Spiraea
• Lucy Rose of Sharon (Althea)
• Issai Purple Beautyberry
• Wine Spritzer Beautyberry
• Emerald Green Arborvitae Spiral Topiary
• Hollywood Torulosa Juniper
• Iowa Juniper
• Degroots Spire Arborvitae
• Gold Lace Juniper
• Anna's Magic Ball Arborvitae
• Tom Thumb Dwarf Globe Arborvitae
• Pugster Amethyst Butterfly Bush
• Apricot Drift Dwarf Rose
• Sunny Yellow Knock Out Rose
• Pink Double Knock Out Rose
• Red Drift Groundcover Rose
• Sunrosa Red Dwarf Shrub Rose
• Red Double Knock Out Rose
• Red Cascade Miniature Climbing Rose
• Peachy Knock Out Rose
• Coral Knockout Rose
• Pink Drift Groundcover Rose
• Coral Drift Groundcover Rose
• Peach Drift Groundcover Rose
• White Drift Groundcover Rose
• Sunrosa Orange Delight Dwarf Shrub Rose
• Toyo Nishiki Flowering Quince
• Fragrant Winter Honeysuckle Bush
• Cameo Flowering Quince
• Sweetshrub (Carolina Allspice)
• Steeds Pyramidal Japanese Holly
• Sunorita Rose
• Wintergreen Boxwood
• Baby Gem Boxwood
• Golden Globe Arborvitae
• Sky Pencil Japanese Holly
• Creeping St Johns Wort
• Grey Owl Juniper
• Hetz Midget Dwarf Globe Arborvitae
• Sensational lavender
• Canaertii Juniper (Red Cedar)
• Mr Mustard Sorbaria
• Mountain Snow Pieris
• Soft Touch Japanese Holly
• Blue Sargent Juniper
• L.A. Dreamin Hydrangea
• Jim's Pride White Summer Daphne
• Woodward Globe American Arborvitae
• Highlights Arborvitae Thuja Janed Gold
• Pink Dwarf Flowering Almond
• Limeglow Golden Andorra Compact Juniper
• O Yashima Double Flowering White Quince
• Crimson and Gold Red Flowering Quince
• Red Gnome Red Twig Dogwood
• Compacta Japanese Holly
• Sunrosa Fragrant Pink Dwarf Shrub Rose
• Sweet Drift Groundcover Rose
• Purple Pearls Beautyberry
• Hummingbird Summersweet Clethra
• Bloomerang Pink Perfume Lilac
• Brindabella Purple Prince Shrub Rose
• Early Amethyst Beautyberry
• Caroline Raspberry
• Iwai Nishiki Red Flowering
• Strawberry Smoothie Althea (Rose of Sharon)
• Sweet Mock Orange
• Fragrant Snowball Viburnum carlesii 'Korean Spice'
• Heritage Raspberry
• Winterthur Winterhazel
• Arctic Sun Yellow Twig Dogwood
• Bob Gordon American Elderberry
• Buddleia Buzz Midnight Dwarf Butterfly Bush
• Sunburst Variegated Korean Boxwood
• White Meadowsweet
• Chojuraku Orange Double Flowering Quince
• Brindabella Pink Princess Shrub Rose

Tree

• Vanilla Strawberry Hydrangea
• Morning Star Rose of Sharon (Althea)
• White Kousa Chinese Dogwood Tree
• Aphrodite Rose of Sharon
• Summer Snowflake Viburnum
• Bloomerang Dark Purple Lilac
• Grancy Graybeard White Fringe Tree
• Cherokee Princess White Dogwood
• Purple Pillar Rose of Sharon
• Red Flowering Dogwood Tree
• White Pillar Rose of Sharon
• Satomi Pink Chinese Dogwood
• Blue Chiffon Rose of Sharon
• Grace Pink Flowering Smoke Tree
• Royal Purple Smoke Tree (Smokebush)
• Red Dragon Contorted Filbert
• Harry Lauder's Walking Stick
• Golden Dwarf Hinoki Cypress Tree
• Gold Tip Fernspray Hinoki Cypress
• Tempelhof Hinoki Cypress
• Spartan Juniper
• Orange Dream Japanese Maple
• Red Dragon Dwarf Japanese Maple
• Jane Magnolia Tulip Tree
• Ann Magnolia Tulip Tree
• Yellow Bird Magnolia Tulip Tree
• Genie Magnolia Tulip Tree
• Emerald Green Arborvitae
• Hybrid Pink Dogwood florida x kousa
• Green Mountain Boxwood
• Crimson Queen Dwarf Japanese Maple
• Lions Head Japanese Maple
• Lois Yellow Magnolia
• Southern Crabapple
• Jean's Appalachian Snow White Dogwood Tree
• Shoal Creek Chaste Tree
• Sweetbay Magnolia
• Mariesii Doublefile Viburnum
• Violet Satin Rose of Sharon

Berry

• Super Dwarf Mondo Grass
• Dwarf Burning Bush
• Hetzi Columnar Juniper
• Black Mondo Grass

Grass

• Golden Sweet Flag