Introduction
Planting seasons
Plant characteristics
Plant naming
Common plant names
Botanic plant names
Weeds and weeding
Plant watering
Seed propagation
Vegetable growing
Garden fertilizers
Feeding lawns
Click the letter of the alphabet below to see common names by that initial.
Or click here to see the plants listed alphabetically by botanic name.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ALL
| Common name | Botanic name |
| Rose | Rosa gallica officinalis | Round-headed leek | Allium sphaerocephalon |
| Red Cabbage | Brassica oleracea var. sabauda | Rudbeckia | Rudbeckia hirta |
| Red barked dogwood | Cornus alba | Runner bean | Phaseolus vulgaris |
| Radish | Raphanus sativus | Ragged robin | Lychnis flos-cuculi |
| Rain lily | Zephyranthes candida | Rambling rose | Rosa |
| Raspberry | Rubus idaeus | Red barked dogwood | Cornus alba |
| Red betony | Stachys officinalis | Red hot poker | Kniphofia uvaria |
| Red hot poker | Kniphofia rooperi | Red hot poker | Kniphofia |
| Red leaved banana | Musa ensete | Regal pelargonium | Pelargonium |
| Rhododendron | Rhododendron schlippenbachii | Rhododendron | Rhododendron |
| Rhododendron | Rhododendron macareanum | Rhododendron | Rhododendron yakushimanum |
| Rhododendron | Rhododendron sinogrande | Rhubarb | Rheum palmatum |
| Rock cress | Aubrietia | Rock rose | Cistus |
| Rock rose | Cistus x purpureus | Rose | Rosa rubrifolia |
| Rose | Rose | Rose | Rosa rugosa |
| Rose | Rosa glauca | Rose | Rosa gallica |
| Rose | Rosa | Rose | Rosa davidii |
| Rose | Rosa | Rose | Rosa |
| Rose of sharon | Hypericum calycinum | Rosebud cherry | Prunus x subhirtella |
| Rosemary | Rosmarinus officinalis | Rough tree fern | Cyathea australis |
| Round-leaved mint | Mentha suaveolens syn M. x rotundifolia | Rowan | Sorbus aucuparia |
| Royal fern | Osmunda regalis | Ruby chard | Beta vulgaris (Cida gp) |
| Rue | Ruta graveolens | Runner bean | Phaseolus vulgaris |
| Russian sage | Perovskia | Ragwort, Cankerwort | Senecio jacobaea |