Welcome to The Plant Guide Online! Find the best plants for your area's climate by entering your zip code or selecting your state below.

The Plant Guide Online launched in 2011 as a way to help gardeners, landscapers, and horticulturists easily access growing zone data by town or zip code.

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We combined databases from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as well as top universities in order to show the USDA growing zones broken down by every town and zip code in the United States. It wasn't easy (that's over 100k towns!) but we're proud to be one of the oldest and biggest plant search tools online.

Since the early days of only providing USDA growing zone data, we've grown our site to offer even more help in choosing the best plants to grow for your climate. In addition to looking up your growing zone, you can now also find a list of all the recommended vegetables, fruits, flowers, trees and more that are best suited to your individual area's climate.

Search The Plant Guide by state, town, or zip code to find the best plants for your area based on the latest scientific data. Then if you're interested in other growing tips you can head over to our socials, where we share updates on our personal gardening and homesteading adventures. Hope to hear from you soon!

When we're not writing code for the website, we are all also avid gardeners and science educators. Right now you can find us working on our own urban homesteading projects in Atlanta, GA. On our socials you can find growing tips, as well as how to videos on soapmaking, canning, mycology and more.

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