Fast-Growing Plants
222 plants in this collection
About the Fast-Growing Plants Collection
Fast-growing plants are the ones that make up ground quickly, trees, shrubs, and vines that put on noticeable size year after year rather than inching along. In a new or replanted garden they are invaluable: they screen a view, shade a window, or fill an empty bed in a fraction of the time a slow grower takes, turning a raw site into something established while patience does the rest.
In the landscape speed solves the awkward early years. A quick screen buys privacy at once; a fast shade tree cools a new house within a few summers; vigorous fillers knit a young border together while the choicer, slower plants find their feet. Used well, fast growers are the scaffolding of a garden, giving instant effect and, often, the shelter that helps everything around them establish.
We offer fast-growing plants because a garden that rewards quickly is a garden that gets loved and kept, and because quick coverage has real practical value: shade that cuts cooling bills, screens that soften a hard boundary, and roots that hold a raw slope while slower plantings take hold. Many are also generous to wildlife from their first season, flowering and fruiting young.
Give them room and remember that vigor cuts both ways, so match the plant to the space and be ready to prune or thin as the garden matures. Pair fast screening with the permanence of our Canopy Trees and Large Shrubs, and lean on our Drought-Tolerant Plants for quick, water-wise coverage on hot, dry sites.
