Facts About perennials & biennials

Although Some Dwarf Willows grow just a few centemetres high, trees are generally the largest of all plants. Indeed the giant redwood tree is the biggest of all living things. Trees can grow big because they don't have soft, green 'herbaceous' stem like other plants; they have stiff, brown, woody stems, covered in protection bark,that can grow tall and support an enormous weight of leaves. With most trees there is a single thick central stem the tunk and leaves and side branches only grow some way off the ground so they are well out of the reach of most browsing animals.

•Annuals
Annuals are plants such as delphiniums that grow from seeds, flower, disperse their seeds and die in a single growing season.

•Biennials
Biennials live for two years. In the first the plant grows leaves on a bulb or Taproot Wich sustains it with food through the winter. It flowers in the second summer.

•Perennials
Perennials sure as wallflowers and chrysanthemum live several years surviving through the winter on underground foods such as bulbs

•Ephemerals
Ephemerals such as groundsel are short-lived plants that grow from seed,bloom and die within a few weeks