New England ’s rocky shore and cold winter require audacious plant as well as live gardener . With a mild USDA zone 6a clime along the Atlantic coast , the environment changes promptly to geographical zone 3b in northerly Maine and in New Hampshire and Vermont along the St. Lawrence river . Native plants have conform to their New England mood ; they are pest and disease - resistant and involve less caution in oecumenical than import varieties .

The Populous South

Massachusetts and Connecticut are at the center of the volume of New England population . Thanks to the fond Atlantic current , most of Connecticut enjoys a milder clime than the residual of New England ; Massachusetts ' easterly third shares the benefit of populate along the shore . Native plants hardy to zone 6a along the shores and zone 5 on the interior let in white wood aster , Solomon ’s plumage and waste strawberry . trump honeysuckle vines and cinnamon fern furnish foliar interest group . Little bluestem dope is a native grass that thrives in rocky filth where it grows in tasteful , decorative bunches . Jack in the pulpit , wild ginger and lady fern all prosper in woodlands .

Atlantic Coast

allot to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center , American beachgrass is the most common dune plant along the Atlantic coast ; it grow all along New England ’s shore . Switchgrass , saltmeadow hay and Indian grass will also uprise in sand . The green ash tree tree is hardy throughout New England and tolerant of almost any soil . Hackberry is hardy to geographical zone 4 . Eastern red cedar , pitch-black cerise , pitch pine and form of oak are also salutary prospect for the seacoast . Coneflower and black - eyed Susans are salt - tolerant . Seacoast angelica , maritime saltbush , marsh marigold and New England asters are intrepid along the Atlantic to the coast of Maine .

The North and West

The Allegheny Mountains end in the New England Berkshires , the gently rolling old Green Mountains of Vermont and White Mountains of New Hampshire . All through this area and the western half of Maine , glaciers send packing rocky materials and scoured out lakes . Most of the arena is turn up in hardiness zone 4 or , in northernmost incision , in zone 3 . Mountain maple and newspaper publisher birch tree all grow throughout the area . Balsam fir and sugar maple are critical to local industries . Boreal yarrow , common violin neck , circular leaf orchidaceous plant and over-embellished foliage angelica are sturdy and easterly red columbines nod in chilly natural spring breezes . Goat ’s face fungus is one native industrial plant that acquire in moist , productive timberland soils from the Department of the Interior of Maine south to the Berkshire Hills . Hardy butterfly smoke , a favourite garden industrial plant , grows throughout New England in well - drained arenaceous grease .

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