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Taylor's Guide to Annuals : How to Select and Grow more than 400 Annuals, Biennials, and Tender Perennials - Flexible Binding by Barbara Ellis
Armitage's Manual of Annuals, Biennials, and Half-Hardy Perennials by Allan M. Armitage
Annuals and Biennials by Roger Phillips
American Horticultural Society Practical Guides: Annuals & Biennials by Christopher Grey-Wilson
Annuals & Biennials (DK Garden Guides) by Richard Rosenfeld
Eyewitness Garden Handbooks: Annuals and Biennials by Alan Toogood
Three Seasons of Summer: Gardening With Annuals and Biennials by Ethne Clarke
A-Z of Annuals, Biennials & Bulbs (Successful Gardening) by Readers Digest
Color Aerial Photography and Videography in the Plant Sciences and Related Fields/Eleventh Biennial Workshop by Paul R. Nixon
Michigan Natural Resources: 10th Biennial Commemorative Edition 1977-1995 by Richard Morscheck
RHS Practicals: Annuals and Biennials (RHS Practicals) by Christopher Grey-Wilson
Annuals, Perennials and Biennials by Margaret Verner
Perennials for the Western Garden: The Amateur Gardener's Fieldbook for the Growing of Perennials, Biennials, and Bulbs by Margaret Klipstein, Coates
A-Z of Annuals, Biennials & Bulbs (Successful Gardening) by Readers Digest
Annuals and Biennials (Garden Library) by Kenneth A. Beckett
Biennial plant
A Biennial plant is a plant that takes between twelve and twenty-four months to complete its lifecycle. In the first year the plant grows leaves and stems (vegetative structures) and then it enters a period of dormancy over the colder months. The next spring/summer it produces fruit, flowers and seeds, and then dies.
Under extreme climatic conditions a biennial plant may 'bolt' through the separate stages of its lifecycle in a very short period of time (eg.3 or 4 months instead of 2 years). This is quite common in vegetable or flower seedlings which were exposed to cold conditions before they were planted in the ground. This behaviour leads to many normally biennial plants being treated as annuals in some areas.
From a gardener's persepective, a plant's status as annual or perennial often varies based on location. For example, a perennial plant in a warm place might easily be grown as an annual plant in somewhere colder. This is because climatic conditions play a large role in determining the length of a plants life-cycle. If a normally biennial plant is grown in extremely harsh conditions it is likely to be treated as an annual because it will not survive the winter cold. Conversely, an annual grown under extremely favourable conditions may have such a highly successful propogation rate that it give the appearance of being bi- or perennial.
Examples of biennial plants are parsley, silverbeet, Sweet William, and carrots.
See also annual, perennial.
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