Plants that complete their life cycle within one year.
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I've read that Sorrel is a permaculture green, but an anual, how does it come back?
How does sorrel come back every year if you pick it all, when people say it's an annual?
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What do globe amaranth seeds look like, and can I harvest them from dried flowers?
During this past summer I grew a plant with beautiful small, round, bright purple flowers that looked like puffballs. I was told it's called Globe Amaranth. Its height was about six inches, and much of what I read said they're generally much taller.…
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What is this small annual with narrow gray/green leaves and rust colored daisy-type flowers?
I live in Massachusetts, zone 6a. Last June, I saw these plants on a clearance table of mixed annuals, none of which had name tags. They were already in bloom. The colors of both the leaves and the flowers were different from my other annuals, so I…
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Will solar lights around my vegetables and flowers be bad for them?
I have a decent size vegetable garden and various annual flowers in my back yard.
I recently bought some solar lights and put it around the plants. The lights stays on all night long, and I wonder is having a light source around them 24/7 (sun in…
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What's the difference between annual, biennial, and perennial plants?
Before deciding whether to purchase a plant, and how best to plan where to place it, the basic knowledge of how long it lives and how often it blooms is a necessity. What's the difference between annuals, biennials and perennials?
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How can I get a Morning Glory that was cut back to flower before the season's end?
My Heavenly Blue Morning Glory was pruned last week just as it began to bloom. Today is September 1. What can I do to save the blooming season?
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Why does my garden centre say these plants are annuals?
I'm in the UK (so hardiness zone 8/9), and my local garden centre is selling Chrysanthemums and Michaelmas daisies, labelled as "one season only".
I'm sure as a kid my gran had (the same) Chrysanthemums year after year, and my dad has some…
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How can I prolong a marigold?
A girl who's graduating just got a pot with a pretty little flower in it from her a capella group as a parting gift. She's about to fly away across the world, so she can't take it with her, so she gave it to me to tend to.
Now that we some…
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Any guesses what these seedlings are, and whether I should remove them?
A few weeks ago, I cleared the (rather mossy) top inch of soil off a plant trough, weeded the trough, and put in a mix of Commercial Multi-purpose Compost and some "compost" made from organic discards from a local Health-Store Chain. (Planet…
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Should I rub my nasturtium seeds with a nail file before planting?
I bought Burpee Nasturtium Fordhook Favorites Mix Nasturtium seeds. Yesterday I planted a few, using the sowing instructions for depth and distance. I obviously hadn't looked closely enough at the package because today I noticed this message above…
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Why are the leaves of my french marigold wilting and causing the flower to droop?
The leaves of my french marigold are wilting, and the flower droops over due to its weight and skinny stem. (I have positioned the flower to lean against the glass this time).
This is the 2nd time already!
Why do the leaves keep wilting, a few at…
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What are these trailing plants with white flowers?
I was looking for plants to add to containers along with red geraniums (pelargoniums) and came across this photo but after much searching couldn't find any information on what the white trailing plants in this basket are. Can anyone identify…
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Why are my morning glories stunted/deformed?
I planted some morning glory vines (Ipomea sp.) outdoors in a box about 10 weeks ago (mid-March, I'm in Zone 8) and they've been underperforming the whole time -- the vines are not even a meter long, and many of the new leaves have been small, pale,…
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What is this plant with dark green ovate hairy leaves in my indoor pot?
I'm trying to grow a indoor herbs garden. I have reused soil from flowering pots from another location. The herbs didn't grow at all (I think bad seeds), but in one of the pots this appeared.
Here is a closeup of one of the tips
And one of the…
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Can someone identify this weed?
It has been sprouting all over my garden and seems extremely hard to kill. I've been trying to look up information on it but nobody in the area seems to know the name, even though it seems to be growing all over Israel.
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