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Flower Gardening : How to Grow Chrysanthemums From Seed

Growing chrysanthemums from the seed involves keeping them moist, but allowing them to dry out between watering, and keeping the browning and ...

Annuals, perennials, biennials have key differences

Flowering plants (excluding the woody shrubs and trees) are generally broken down into three groups according to their life cycles: annuals, perennials, and biennials. Annuals live out their lives within one year. In all but a few cases where they reseed themselves, new annuals must be planted each year, or after the old ones have died back.

Perennials, on the other hand, are more or less permanent plants in the garden, living more than two years. The stems and leaves may die back during the cold winter months, but the roots remain alive and send out new and bigger plants each spring.

Biennials are plants that take two years, or two growth periods to complete their cycle. The first year they grow from seed planted in the summer, and growing into a leafy plant in the fall. The second year they flower, set seed and die. Confusion starts when we buy or set out a biennial such as foxglove, Sweet William or hollyhock that we have pre-planted or bought from the nursery and set out in the

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PLAN to PLANT
From spring-blooming bulbs and bleeding hearts to fall-blooming chrysanthemums and asters, you'll find hardy plants that can provide color for two or three