Flowers can be grown around your home in containers, beds, along walkways, even in a meadow. There are literally thousands of different flowers to consider for your home garden or landscape. It is easy to become mesmorized with their many colors, shapes, and fragrances.
Most flowers will fit into one of three categories; annuals, perennials, and bulbs. Life cycle and reproductive habits will determine the category a flower falls into.
Annuals
Annuals are plants that germinate, mature, flower, and produce seed in one year. Biennials are sort of "in between" annuals and perennials. Biennials will grow the first year but flower the second when grown from seed. After that you need to re-plant.
Perennials
Perennials live for years though they die back to the ground in Fall and grow up from the roots the following Spring.
Bulbs
Bulbs (daffodils, tulips, hyacinth, etc.) are perennials with specialized storage roots.