Every plant worth growing down here.

A living file on every plant that will grow in the South. What it needs, when to put it in, what kills it down here, and every way you can actually use it once it starts producing. Written for our heat and our sand, not for somebody gardening in Ohio.

Written for zones 8 to 11, checked against UF/IFAS, and photographed in my own yard.

You are looking at the whole library. The 57 plants in color below are ones growing in my yard right now, and those you can open. One is unlocked all the way through so you can read a finished file before you decide anything.

A good guide gets you planted. This is the file you keep coming back to for the next twenty years.

I own a shelf of garden books and I still buy them. A good guide is worth every dollar, and it does one job well: it gets you in the ground with confidence. This does a different job. It is the reference you open on a Tuesday in year three when the tree is finally fruiting and you need to know what to do with all of it.

A file follows one plant through its whole life, from where on earth it came from to what it does for your body. Every plant that grows down here has one. Here is what is in every single file.