What are biennial plants? Examples are found in the garden and on the flower beds

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

How to distinguish

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

Examples of annual, biennial and perennial plants

First we go into the garden. What is growing from annuals? First of all - potatoes, radishes, tomatoes, peppers (sweet and bitter), cucumber, Savoy cabbage and Peking, watermelon, melon, pumpkin (pumpkin itself and its "relatives" - krukenk, zucchini, squash), eggplant, beans, peas, Soya, corn, sunflower, physalis, rapeseed, borage, anise, basil, hyssop, coriander, dill, fennel, savory, chervil, garden lobster, all kinds of salads (including cress salad), spinach, mustard leaf, marjoram. For all these plants, life begins with sowing seeds in the spring and ends in autumn with harvesting in the form of tubers, root crops, seeds, giving rise to a similar life in the next season.

Examples of biennial plants: cabbage (red, white, Brussels, leaf, kohlrabi). From onions - leeks and shallots. Root-fruit biennial plants are examples: carrots, rutabaga, turnip, radish (white and black), beets, parsley, celery, parsnip. Leaves - parsley and celery - are also two-year-old. Little-known but growing valuable biennial plants, examples: chard (beetroot), chicory ordinary, lettuce chicory, scorzonera (black- rooted ), oat root, shallots. From spicy aromatic to biennial refers cumin.

Perennials are Jerusalem artichoke, sorrel, a family of onion (all known brass, little-known slug, multi-tiered and chives-onion), rhubarb, horse-radish, artichoke, asparagus, stachis. Spicy aromatic: tarragon (he is a tarragon), lyubovok, thyme, lemon balm, mint.

Where should I take the onion

Let's figure it out. First in the first season seeds are sown, called in the people by the black one. By autumn they get a seedling - small bulbs. Of these, for the next, second summer, grow large bulbs - a true onion, without which a little what a dish does. In the third season, you need to plant such an onion and wait for it to flow first, and then the seeds - blackies. It turns out, by all rules, onion - a 3-year, therefore, a long-term.

Flowering biennial plants

Below are examples of those biennials that are many loved and therefore well known.

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

The little bell is a flowering plant of unusual, charming beauty. The bushes are pyramidal in shape 0.5 - 0.9 m high, with large double flowers of blue, lilac, pink and white. He likes the sun, he needs water under the root. Afraid of winds - you need support.

Daisy is a beautiful spring, light-loving and cold-resistant baby (up to 10 cm in height). At early sowing will try to bloom in the first summer, but abundantly blooms after wintering - gives on 20 - 30 inflorescences simultaneously. The color is white, pink, red, burgundy. Prefers loose nutrient soil.

Forget-me - unpretentious blue-eyed early spring miracle. Height of 20 cm. Good in the neighborhood with tulips, narcissuses, pansies, primula. Rich flowering in a cool place with a lacy shadow. Decorates the garden and bouquets.

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

Sweet berry

Are there shrubs in our gardens - biennial plants? Examples are raspberries. It reproduces by root offspring, which are planted in spring or autumn. In the first year, shoots grow, and the next year yield.