Annuals and Perennials
This bright yellow annual flower native to North America turns its head to follow the sun.
What is a sunflower?
This fragrant spring-blooming shrub is famous for its clusters of purple, pink, or white flowers and is common in cottage gardens.
What is a lilac?
These evergreens have thin, needle-like leaves and produce cones instead of flowers.
What are conifers?
Deciduous plants are known for losing these every autumn.
What are leaves?
Why don’t annual flowers ever get stressed?
Because they know they only have one season to leaf it all behind.
This heat-loving annual vegetable is technically a fruit and comes in varieties like cherry, beefsteak, and Roma.
What is a tomato?
Boxwood shrubs are often pruned into geometric shapes and are commonly used in this formal garden style.
What is a hedge or topiary?
This shiny-leaved evergreen shrub with red berries is often used in Christmas wreaths.
What is holly?
This popular deciduous tree produces sap that can be made into syrup
What is a sugar maple?
Why did the gardener trim the shrubs into animal shapes?
Because she wanted to branch into a new topiary career.
This tart, red-stalked perennial vegetable is often used in pies and needs a few years before the first harvest.
What is rhubarb?
This native North American shrub produces clusters of white flowers in spring and bright red berries in fall, making it popular for wildlife gardens.
What is a serviceberry?
: This evergreen Mediterranean herb is often used in roasted dishes and has needle-like leaves.
What is rosemary?
Dropping leaves helps deciduous plants conserve this resource during winter.
What is water?
Why did the tree go to the dentist?
To get a root canal.
This Mediterranean perennial herb, valued since ancient times, is often used to flavor roasted lamb dishes.
What is rosemary?
This maple species is the national tree of Canada and is prized for its sweet sap.
What is a sugar maple?
Eastern white cedar, a native North American evergreen, is often used for this type of outdoor structure.
What is a hedge or windbreak?
This Japanese deciduous tree is prized for its delicate, colorful leaves that change dramatically in autumn.
What is a Japanese maple?
Why did the deciduous tree get a promotion?
Because it was outstanding in its field.
This tall, purple-flowering perennial in the mint family is beloved by pollinators and is also called “bee balm.”
What is Monarda?
This large-flowered shrub can be grown in acidic soil to produce blue blooms and in alkaline soil to produce pink blooms.
What is a hydrangea?
This evergreen tree native to the Pacific Northwest is the world’s tallest tree species.
What is a coast redwood?
This deciduous fruit tree produces blossoms in spring and sweet produce in late summer.
What is a peach tree?
How do trees get on the internet?
They log in.