The dormant seed carries over the winter the life they were themselves unable to maintain, as perennials and woody plants do in their buds.
It is from perennials that the great bulk of our fine garden plants are derived.
The numerous beds are filled with bloom for many weeks, and each bed contains a massing of one variety, whether perennials or annuals, which, when it has finished flowering, is replaced by something of another period.
The rear beds contain tall-growing perennials mixed with some annuals.
West gardens, well favored in the beauty of its surrounding trees and generously planted with perennials and shrubs.
Spring bulbs and many spring perennials appear three weeks earlier than near New York City.
At both Glen Alpine and Cherrycroft nurseries of cold-frames abundantly supply the many annuals and perennials required to fill the broad beds.
The perennials are banked against the vine-covered walls.
The wall-beds containperennials in mass against the vine-clad background, and the central fountain is framed in broad beds of Roses, in bush and standard form.
Annuals in richest massing fill all the small beds, and perennials with annuals are closely grouped in the wall beds.
And thus before midsummer's heat many of the best hardy perennials have come and gone.
Any new hardy perennials you want may be planted in favourable March weather, and so may the autumn-flowering Gladioli.
If you have any good garden of hardy perennials within reach, you should visit it at different times of the year, and try to learn some lesson about the habit and arrangement of the plants.
The hardy perennials we are going to describe will flourish in any English garden that has good, well-dressed soil, and is open to the sun part of the day.
All the beautiful annuals and perennials we speak of will grow in any country garden that has sun part of the day, and we will tell you which do best in towns.
But if you are one of those lucky children who grow up in a big garden, we advise you to beg for a little extra bit for a ‘nursery,’ and then to try your hand at growing some of the easier biennials and perennials from seed.
For one thing, the kinds with the running roots are difficult to keep in check, and their yearly transplantation among other established perennials is likely to cause disturbance and injury to their neighbours.
Many of the most indispensable perennialstake two, three or even more years to come to their strength and beauty.
And then there was a great border of herbaceous perennials backed by delphiniums and monkshood already in flower and budding hollyhocks rising to their duty; a border that reared its blaze of colour against a hill-slope dark with pines.
All the September perennials lifting their spears in their last great chorus.
The perennialswere all moved to their permanent places, the beds fertilized and trimmed.
Nearly all our perennials had come through the winter, thanks to the sixty-seven days of snow, and the one plant of blue May phlox which had survived its fall planting made us eager for a second trial, the next time in early spring.
The bulbs and perennials sown the year before were an experiment.
Other perennials that have grown into large clumps should be dug up, divided, and re-set in well-fertilized soil.
Keep all centres open, and let the trees, shrubs, and flowering perennials be massed about the corners and along the sides.
They should continue the work of selecting the seed from the best flowers, as indicated in the work for Form II, and should grow some seed from vegetables and perennials seen to be particularly good.
Simple artistic methods of ornamental planting with trees, shrubs, vines, and herbaceous perennials can now be introduced, and some scheme for improving the school grounds outlined.
The herbaceous perennials are equipped with underground parts that act as storehouses of food to ensure the growth of the plant through successive seasons.
His transplantedperennials were "sattled" by copious floods of water.
One little fragrant flower, fraught with meaning and remembrance, belongs to the annuals, though its family is much better known among the half-hardy perennials that require winter protection here.
It is well to keep a tabulated list of these old-time perennials in the Garden Boke, so that in the feverish haste and excitement of the planting season a mere glance will be a reminder of height, colour, and time of bloom.
One of the best examples of herbaceous perennials is that of the Orchids, the most popular of which are the Odontoglossums and the Cattleyas.
Alternate-leaved perennials of the southern and southwestern States; head pedunculate.
Low, stemless perennials (as to our wild species) with ternately compound and dissected leaves, and racemose nodding flowers.
Perennials with entire leaves, all or only the upper opposite; involucres long-peduncled in a dichotomous inflorescence, mostly with 5 transversely oblong glands; seeds without caruncle.
Smooth perennials with palmately parted and cut leaves, like Ranunculus, and large solitary terminal flowers.
Most annual wild flowers sow their own seed in this way, but we must not mistake them for perennials because year after year they grow in the same place.
Of course both perennials and annuals spread by means of their seed, but perennials also spread in other ways as well.
Foxgloves, of course, will reproduce themselves by seed, as annuals and perennials do.
In the case of shrubs or perennials the very parents might yet be found.
Annual and biennial species cannot as a rule, be propagated in this way, and even with some perennials horticulturists prefer the sale of seeds to that of roots and bulbs.
My plants were mostly annuals or biennials, or suchperennials as under adequate treatment might produce flowers and seeds during their [521] first summer.
BARR'S= Catalogue of Hardy Perennials and Alpines, Ready in February, Free.
Sow annuals for succession in the last week, also biennials and perennials in the nursery compartment, for planting out next year.
Some deep-rooting perennials do not spread much at the surface, and only require refreshing from time to time by top-dressings.
The selection of suitable alpines, perennials and shrubs and trees also necessitates considerable knowledge on the part of the gardener.
Only a section of some of the best of the decorative hardy perennials can be noted, before we pass on to those popular subjects of this class which have been directly influenced by the hybridizer and improver.
The perennialsshould be transplanted either every year or every second year.
Transplant strong plants of biennials and perennials to their final situations; also the select plants used for spring bedding.
Biennials and perennials should be sown before the middle of the month.
The early stages of lilies, daffodils, and all perennials are most interesting; and one never appreciates a garden until he realizes that this is so.
In this chapter all such things as the common annuals andperennials and shrubs and trees are omitted.
If the place looks bare, seeds of quick-growing flowers may be scattered about the edges of the mass, or herbaceousperennials may be used.
The numbers of good annuals and perennials that may be used in flower-beds are now very large, and one may have a wide choice.
If flowers are to be grown on a lawn, let them be of the hardy kind, which can be naturalized in the sod and which grow freely in the tall unmown grass; or else perennials of such nature that they make attractive clumps by themselves.
Again, in July or August perennials are very easily raised out of doors, and much in the same way as above.
Such good lawn grasses as arundo, pampas-grass, eulalias, and erianthus are perennials and are therefore not included in this discussion.
Some perennials may be treated as annuals by starting the seeds early; Chinese pink, pansy and snapdragon are examples.
Its foliage is very ornamental, and for grouping with perennials it is a plant greatly to be desired.
Seeds of perennials are naturally slow in germinating--their time of coming up being a period varying from one week to two months.
In my mention of early-blooming perennials I had forgotten the Crown Imperial.
Finally, it befell that the coarser perennials elbowed the lilies too closely.
It carpets finely the bare spaces in borders, especially the shady ones, where other perennialswill not thrive.
The seed bed's important part it is to furnish fresh plants to take the place of such perennials and biennials as are winter-killed or have outlived their flowering time.
An admirable subject for naturalisation on almost any soil, thriving perfectly on the wettest and coldest, and therefore suited for many places where other perennials would make little progress.
Amellus, and turbinellus, are amongst the most ornamental perennialswe have.
Large and distinct perennials of fine port, from 3 feet to 6 feet high, with spiny leaves and numerous flowers in spherical heads.
Tall and vigorous perennials with yellow flowers, showy when in bloom, and attractive when seen in America in autumn, mingled with the blue and lilac Asters of that country, but rarely ornamental as grown in gardens.
Many perennials and bulbs must be bought in nurseries and increased as well as may be in nursery beds.
This is one of the finest herbaceous perennials that bloom in October; stately, brilliant and lasting.
A hardy deciduous shrub, and mentioned in connection with herbaceous perennials because of its rich flowers and dwarf habit.
This is a small genus of hardy perennials suitable for the decoration of the English garden from their bold and finely-shaped leaves, which are well marked with various pleasing tints, also because of their perpetual verdure and neat habit.
This and its varieties are hardy perennials of the most reliable kinds; the typical form has flowers of a clear rose colour.
Old clumps of perennials will be greatly benefited by a division of their roots about once in three years.
All perennials that got a start last year will bloom this season, but those grown from seed sown this spring will not bloom until next year.
By that is meant one in which shrubs and perennialsare grown together and where annuals and spring-flowering bulbs can be used effectively to "fill in.
The tops of last year's perennials should be cut away close to the ground, and dead annuals should be pulled up and added to the refuse-heap.
Between the shrubs plant perennials and such summer-flowering plants as dahlias and gladioli.
It is not too late to set out seedling plants of such perennials as phlox and hollyhock if care is taken to lift enough soil with them to insure against disturbance of their roots.
Plant the taller perennials at the rear, and those of medium height in the center, of the row, with low-growing kinds in front.
This being the case, the best place for shrubs and perennials is at the sides of the lot, leaving the rear for the vegetable garden.
The annuals we plant each spring-- They perish in the fall; Biennials die the second year, Perennials not at all.
Being a fine-flowering plant, as well as remarkable for its leaves, it is excellent for every kind of mixed border, and also for grouping with the smaller and medium-sized perennials that have fine foliage or are singular in appearance.
No perennials rival these plants in size, and few in distinctness of appearance.
The perennials are increased by dividing the roots.
They are easily raised in spring from seed, and the perennials may be increased by cuttings placed under glass, or by division.
These pretty, little hardy perennials are very useful as edgings.
These beautiful Alpine perennials delight in a light, sandy soil, and are easily propagated by seed or division.
These beautiful summer-flowering hardy perennials produce large heads of lily-like blossoms in great profusion, which are invaluable for cutting for vase decorations as the bloom lasts a long time in water.
These hardy perennials are best grown in sandy peat and loam.
Hardy perennials that require but little attention; may be grown in any common soil, and propagated by division at any time.
Sow the hardy annuals in the open early in March; the biennials or half-hardy perennials in pots in a greenhouse or a frame, and plant out when strong enough.
Effective little perennials for rock-work, growing best in a light, dry, sandy soil.
These hardy perennials are best grown in sandy loam and peat, and may be increased by cuttings placed under glass in a sheltered situation.
The perennials may also be increased by dividing the roots.
The perennialsmay be propagated by division of the root.
Continue making pipings of Carnation, plant out, or transplant hardy perennialsinto the borders.
Sow Zinnias, also make cuttings of perennials and biennials that are propagated by that means, and put in seeds of biennials under shelter, as well as a few of the early annuals, particularly Stock and Sweet-pea.
Annuals grow from seed to maturity in one year and die; biennials do not flower or produce seed the first year, but do the second and die; perennials are plants which live more than two years.
Both plants are perennials and members of the fern family (Polypodiaceae).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perennials" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
