Pat Curran is a horticulture educator with Tompkins County Cornell Cooperative Extension. She has been gardening since childhood in the Finger Lake Region of New York State. With this experience she shares her top plants in the following categories.

• Top Sun Perennial Plants (pdf)
• Top Shade Perennial Flowering Plants (pdf)
• Top Spring Flowering Perennial Plants (pdf)
• Top Summer Flowering Perennial Plants (pdf)
• Top Fall Flowering Perennial Plants (pdf)
• Top Flowering Native Perennial Plants (pdf)
• Top Ferns (pdf)
• Top Flowering Bulbs (pdf)
• Top Plants for Foliage – not Ferns (pdf)
• Top Shrubs and Vines for Sun (pdf)
• Top Shrubs and Vines for Light Shade (pdf)
• Top Native Shrubs and Vines (pdf)
• Top Trees for Sun (pdf)
• Top Trees for Light Shade (pdf)
• Top Native Trees (pdf)
• Invasive Plants (pdf)