A white biennial plant in the sun - Saiglobalnt/Getty Images When browsing plants at a nursery, you will likely see two types of plants listed: annual and perennial. However, there's another kind of ...

Biennial flowers are just what they sound like: They’re flowers that have a two-year life cycle. During their first year, biennials often focus on stabilization–growing roots, stems, and leaves. By ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As you look through all the seed catalogs arriving in your mailbox and dream about the garden season to come, you may find yourself a bit confused about certain terms you find in those catalogs. Some ...

(1) Populations of two facultative biennial plant species, Echium vulgare and Picris hieracioides, were monitored for 5 years in an abandoned limestone quarry near Syracuse, New York, U.S.A. Seedling ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Georgetown Times features John Nelson’s Mystery Plant series each Wednesday. You can find the answer to today’s mystery plant next Wednesday. The answer to last week’s Mystery Plant ...