Confusion about violas being perennials or annuals??
gardenfanatic2003
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Claire_from_Michigan
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Is Silene Armeria (sweet william catchfly) annual or perennial?
Comments (3)I love silene. It's a self-seeding annual in zone 5. If you leave them to seed, you will have babies all over the place next year. They will sprout in early spring, sometimes in autumn to winter over. They're easy to weed out where you don't want them, but I let them pop up between plants. I also save some seed each summer just in case they don't return. But they always have. The color is gorgeous....See Moreannual pansy now perennial?
Comments (11)It's the heat that kills Pansies, not the cold. As long as so much snow doesn't cover them completely, they can live through cold. How cold, I don't know, but definitely in Z5, and in a pot through 9 degrees here. Had them live through winter many times in central OH when fall-planted, but not so much through the following summer. Spring planted violas/pansies in more shade may still be alive by fall, but those in tons of sun likely will not, IME in OH and AL. Individual plants don't seem to live more than a couple years, tops. Where they are covered by snow, I would suspect rotting over temperature to be the primary COD, to a point, but I'm certainly not a scientist, just a yard observer. Not really sure how one mulches a pansy, or any plant that short... I wouldn't try though, as I would expect to see blooms intermittently throughout winter in any case where snow cover is intermittent. I don't think anyone has spliced or modified genes here, but that they've just selectively kept and bred those that survived over winter to make the most of that trait. It's possible that financial motivations could justify the cost of the former, IDK, doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me although pansies are one of my fav/always-have plants....See MorePennisetum 'Red Bunny Tails' Annual or Perennial?
Comments (1)I'm no botanist but in my experience annual plants generally sprout, grow, bloom then die once frost nips them when the weather turns cold. Perennials on the other hand send up new growth in spring, bloom during their annual growth cycle, then go dormant once frost nips them when the weather turns cold. They return from year to year and repeat the process. Pennisetum is an ornamental grass commonly referred to as fountain grass. There are several cultivars. 'Hameln' is a perennial cultivar. ' Red Bunny Tails' is an annual cultivar that may perform as a perennial in Z7 - see the link below for more information. It would likely be an annual in my Z6 garden. Here is a link that might be useful: Pennisetum messiacum...See MoreIs Verbena bonariensis an annual or perennial?
Comments (23)I grow Homestead Purple, not sure of the scientific name, and it dies back and comes up from the roots each year here in S.E. Louisiana. Just beautiful. I am rooting in my greenhouse so that I can spread it around to other places in my yard. It is one of the first flowers that blooms in the spring and keeps on going all summer and into the fall....See Morekymmieann
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