Annuals and Perinials?

Question

Whats the difference and how to care for each?

Answer 1

I grow both annuals and perennials in my garden. Annuals grow and flower in the same year, then die. Perennials grow the first year and bloom the next year. Some perennials can live for 10+ years while others are shorter lived.

As far as care, it all depends on the type of plant. Most annuals like a lot of sun, plenty of moisture, and need regular fertilizing. Some perennials like a lot of sun while others do better in shade. They need fertilizing usually only at the beginning of the growing season and once or twice thereafter. Most annuals and perennials bloom better if you pinch off the dead flowers.

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Answer 2

Annuals have a life cycle of one year. They tend to have a prolonged blooming season and when they are done, they die. Some annuals will reseed themselves and will come back up the next year, and many you can collect the seed to restart. Most annuals need to be deadheaded to continue the blooming period.

Perennials have a life cycle of more than two years (A two year plant is a biennial). Bulbs and tubers are perennials, as well as many other plants. They will have a shorter bloom period, and each plant has it's own specific season to bloom (Daffodils=early spring, Lillies=Summer, Mums=Fall, etc). Perennials are considered the least care plants. Many need to be divided every few years, but that gives you more plants to love or share. Once established, most perennials don't take much for care.

Most gardens do well with a combination of long blooming annuals and long living periennials.

Answer 3

annuals you have to replant annually each year. Perinials basically live 2 or more years. The care is different for each individual plant some of each require shade, full sun, acidic soil, ect.

Answer 4

Annuals are around for 1 year and to have beautiful flowers, they need to be deadheaded (remove the dead flowers) all summer.
Perennials come back every year and blossom (usually) once per season. Deadheading perennials is a good idea though to keep your garden looking nice and neat and with the possibility that the plant will bloom again. For example-delphiniums and phlox will blossom twice although the flowers will be smaller and fewer.
Good luck and enjoy.

Answer 5

Annual plants do not normally survive directly for more years. They may be perpetuated by new (springtime?) sowings, or you can buy new plants from shops or get them from friends. If you cut your annual plants down they may start a regrowth and some of them maybe live longer. The wisest way to care for annual plants is to clean around them, taking away the weeds and other unwished things. You may have a book where you can read about those plants, whether they enjoy more sun or more shade, dry or damp soil, etc. If you acquaint them to getting watered they must be watered regularly or they risk to die.

Perennials may survive for years and so it will be wise of you to clean around them, even pruning them moderately according to your own aesthetic sense, and if your water them you must go on watering them regularly. If you never water them you may just watch them, enjoy them, allow them the necessary space and sun or shade according to what they like best.

Protect the plants, they can't flee, the can't escape their foes! Good luck to you!

Answer 6

Annuals only live for one season
Perennials come back year after year.
General care for them is the same. Occasional water and good light source depending on plant will give you a beautiful garden.

Answer 7

Annuals grow from seed to flower to seed all within one growing season. In other words, the plant will only last for one season. However, many annuals drop their seeds and then new plants come up from the seeds the following year.
Perennials last for many seasons. However, during the first year (the year the seed/plant is planted) the plant generally will not bloom. During the first year, the plant grows its root system and foliage only. It will die back in the winter (although some species keep their leaves in the winter) and then will come back out and bloom the following year.
Biennials last for two years. The first year the plant grows its foliage, and the second year the plant produces stems, blooms and seeds, then dies...

Answer 8

perennials take less work and in the long run are cheaper as they return each year and you can divide them in the fall, dividing them is recommended as the produce more flowers if divided every few yrs,annuals though flashier and more colorful need to be fed more often and deadheaded