What are biennials? Examples can be found in the garden and flower beds

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:47

Among herbaceous, root and tuber plants and flowers, there are annuals and perennials, and there are also biennials.

How to tell the difference

From the name it is clear that the first life cycle occurs in one summer - germination, growth, flowering and fruiting. Biennial flowers and plants are few in nature. In the first summer, they grow roots, a short stem and leaves. By winter, their leaves wither, falling to the ground along with the stem. And biennial plants remain for wintering (on the ground or in storage) - they need exposure to cold, without which they will not bloom for another, second summer in their life. Since spring, biennials throw out a more powerful trunk and abundant leaves, bloom flowers (or form tubers, fruits). After flowering, seeds ripen in them, after which the plants die. That's what biennials are. Examples of perennials are more numerous - these are plants that settle in the ground for a long time, blooming every summer, remaining to winter in the ground, of course, under favorable conditions for this.

Examples of annuals, biennials and perennials

First let's go to the garden. What grows here from annuals? First of all - potatoes, radishes, tomatoes, peppers (sweet and bitter), cucumber, Savoy and Beijing cabbage, watermelon, melon, pumpkin (pumpkin itself and its "relatives" - kruknek, zucchini, squash), eggplant, beans, peas, soy, corn, sunflower, physalis, rapeseed, borage, anise, basil, hyssop, coriander, dill, fennel, savory, chervil, garden purslane, all kinds of salads (including watercress), spinach, mustard, marjoram. For all these plants, life begins with the sowing of seeds in the spring and ends with the harvest in the fall in the form of tubers, roots, seeds, giving rise to life of their own kind in the next season.

Examples of biennial plants: cabbage (red, white, Brussels sprouts, leafy, kohlrabi). From onions - leeks and shallots. Root biennial plants - examples: carrots, swedes, turnips, radishes (white and black), beets, parsley, celery, parsnips. Leafy - parsley and celery - are also two-year-olds. Little known but cultivated valuable biennials, examples: chard (leaf beet), common chicory, chicory lettuce, scorzonera (black root), oat root, shallots. Of the spicy-aromatic, cumin is biennial. Perennial are Jerusalem artichoke, sorrel, onion family (well-known batun, little-known slime, multi-tiered and chives), rhubarb, horseradish, artichoke, asparagus, stakhis. Spicy aromatic: tarragon (aka tarragon), lovage, thyme, lemon balm, mint.

Where to take the onion

Let'slet's figure it out. First, in the first season, seeds are sown, popularly called nigella. By autumn, they get a seedling - small onions. Of these, the next, second summer, large bulbs grow - real onions, without which few dishes can do. In the third season, you need to plant such an onion and wait for it to bloom first, and then the seeds - nigella. It turns out, by all the rules, onions are 3 years old, therefore, perennial.

Flowering biennials

The following are examples of those biennials that are loved by many and therefore well known.

Turkish carnation - the most beautiful Dutch varieties of these flowers - bright, large, velvety and tall. They love a sunny place and rich humus. Intolerant to moisture stagnation. Effective in large lush groups. They should be protected from freezing by falling asleep with a layer of sawdust before winter.

Middle bell is a flowering plant of extraordinary, bewitching beauty. Pyramid-shaped bushes 0.5 - 0.9 m high, with large double flowers of blue, purple, pink and white. He loves the sun, you need to water at the root. Afraid of the winds - need support.

Daisy - the beauty of spring, light-loving and cold-resistant baby (up to 10 cm in height). With early sowing, it will try to bloom in the first summer, but it blooms profusely after wintering - it gives 20 - 30 inflorescences at a time. Colors white, pink, red, burgundy. Prefers loose nutrient soil.

Forget-me-not -unpretentious blue-eyed early spring miracle. Height 20 cm. Good in the neighborhood with tulips, daffodils, pansies, primrose. Rich flowering in a cool spot with lacy shade. Decorates the garden and bouquets.

Viola - pansies. Without them, the flower garden is boring. Abundantly blooming, curious, all kinds of colors. Selection and hybridization have done their job, turning a small meadow flower into a real miracle.

Sweet Berry

Are there biennial shrubs in our gardens? Examples are raspberries. It propagates by root offspring, which are planted in spring or autumn. In the first year the shoots grow, and the next year they give a harvest.