Annual plants complete their life cycle in one year; perennial plants live for three years or more. It's only intuitive that biennials have a two-year life cycle. But the plant is not the same both ...

Plants are classified as annuals, biennials or perennials based on their life cycles. Biennials, like foxglove, have a vegetative year followed by a flowering year. Perennials, including woody shrubs ...

We know when to plant annuals and perennials and when to expect their blooms. However, biennials grow according to their own genetic schedule. Understand that and they are manageable members of your ...

THERE appears to be no lull in the demand for books on gardening if one may judge from the voluminous output of this class of article. It would seem scarcely possible nowadays for anyone not to be ...

Clay soil can make gardening a challenge. Wet, sticky and compact in winter or dry and rock hard in summer, there’s a lot not to love. But it does have its advantages too, and choosing wisely with the ...

The terms, annual, biennial and perennial can be confusing to new gardeners. Annuals are plants that grow their leaves, flower and then die completely in the fall. They may produce seed that will ...

Whether you have a garden or you're interested in starting one, you're likely familiar with the terms annual and perennial. Both are used to describe the growing cycle of plants, but knowing the ...

Whenever I wander around garden centers, I try to listen to what shoppers are saying as they select plants to take home. I learn a lot when listening to comments from gardeners about which plants they ...