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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...