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 ...

In gardening, you've probably heard plants described as annuals and perennials a lot. That's because knowing the difference between annual and perennial plants will help you understand how each type ...

You’ve probably heard plants described as annuals and perennials in gardening. Knowing the difference between annual vs. perennial plants will help you understand how each type will behave in your ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You know what they say about April showers, right? Well, when all those May flowers start to poke their heads out to say hello, you may see some familiar faces in your back yard. Many plants live and ...

What are those tall yellow flowers by the roadside? Learn to identify common mullein, and delve into why some gardeners don't ...

We spoke with three garden experts on different reasons to allow plants to go to seed, including benefits for wildlife, for your garden, and for yourself.