Pretty Annual Flower

I can’t tell you how many people get this confused with perennial.  I guess when you don’t do something all time, you don’t know the terminology.  I can truly understand that.  My marketing guy, Jeremy R. DeYoung, talks over my head everyday and I have to bring him down to my level, just so I know what is going on.

So what is a Annual?  An annual is a plant that lives for one year.  Hence the name, annual, one year.  Plants such as petunias, marigolds, geraniums, impatiens, tomatoes, peppers, etc. are all annuals.  As soon as they get one night of frost, they are dead, or at least going to die.  The exception to the rule is pansies.  They will survive the cold weather, but will die in the heat of the summer.

Keep in mind, I live in Nashville, Tn, so your area may be different then mine as far as temperature and length of warmth and cold.  Here, we can grow what we call Tropicals.  Tropicals grow all the time in places like Florida, but up here they will die in the frost, so we call them annuals.  Tropicals include Bouganvilla, Mandevilla, Hibiscus, Banana Tree, etc.  I talked more in depth on Tropical plants in my other blog “What is a Tropical Plant”, http://tr.im/o9N1.

So if an annual lives for one year only, that means that a perennial lives for many years.  Then there is a biennial plant that reseeds itself to make new plants every year.  We can get into that later.  If you have any questions, please ask.

Happy Annuals