Types of Plants

Throughout the years, we have grown many different types of plants in our garden, including:

Annuals

An annual plant is a plant that usually germinates, flowers, and dies in a year or season. True annuals will only live longer than a year if they are prevented from setting seed. Some seedless plants can also be considered annuals even though they do not grow a flower.

Biennials

A biennial plant is a flowering plant that takes two years to complete its biological lifecycle. In the first year the plant grows leaves, stems, and roots (vegetative structures), then it enters a period of dormancy over the colder months.

Deciduous

Deciduous means "temporary" or "tending to fall off" (deriving from the Latin word decidere, to fall off). When talking about plants this means that the plant loses its leaves, usually in autumn. The leaves will then grow again in spring.

Evergreen

An evergreen plant is a plant that keeps its leaves over the winter.

Herbaceous

A herbaceous plant is a plant that does not have much wood and its stems are green and soft.

Perennials

A perennial plant or simply perennial (Latin per, "through", annus, "year") is a plant that lives for more than two years.

Succulents

Succulent plants are plants that have adapted to very dry climates. They have adapted in such a way that they can store water, either in their leaves, stems or roots.

Weeds

A weed is a plant that someone thinks is bad, because it is growing in the wrong place. (We don't try to grow these, they just show up!)