Please help me catergorize plants I am trying to learn.?

I know that if you are designing that plants , trees, shrubs, etc. are used for different things.


1. Foundation plants (shrubs and trees)


2. Groundcovers (perennials and evergreens)


3. Corner trees (for the corners of the house)


4. Border plants (flowers groundcovers)


5. ?


6. ?


what else is there vines and climbers?





Also is it correct to say specimans and then cultivars? Family?





Are all trees, shrubs, groundcovers perennials, are they all "Plants"? Is it okay to refer to all of them as plants?


What are perennials exactly? Are not most plants "perennials"? I know that means they come back every year, but what makes "perennials" unique?





Please help me organized here, thanks.

FlowersBirthday FlowersSympathy FlowersFamily Genus species variety 'Cultivar' form


ie. Cornus florida var. rubra 'Cherokee Chief'


Cornus(Genus)- florida(species) -var. rubra (variety)- 'Cherokee Chief' ('Cultivar')


family is used mostly for taxonomic purposes, the family for the above plant is 'Cornaceae'





yes, it is proper to refer to all of the above as plants





there are annuals, perennials, and biennials...


annuals=live one season, mass produce flowers, their job is to make a bunch of seeds to continue existing because they only live for one season.. that is why we dead head, to stop the plant from producing seeds so that it has a higher flower production and lives longer


perennials= live for many years, produce less flowers


biennials=live for 2 years, the first year they produce all the leaves and stems, no flowers, the second year they produce flowers and seeds then die.. a good example is Burdock
Reply:You've almost got too much stuff going on.





You can use foundation plants (like large trees) and then break that down into deciduous or evergreen. (sycamores, oaks...)





then accent trees and break that down into evergreen, deciduous, and ones that flower...even though flowering will fall into both deciduous and evergreen (crape myrtles, plums)





large shrubs like juniper, xylosma, photinia.





small shrubs rosemary, india hawthorne....





perrenials, like geraniums, rosemary, sages...





ornamental grasses and sedges, like festuca glauca, muhlenbergia rigens....





things you can use for hedges, like boxwoods or eounymus.





Vines





Groundcovers





Turfs





Espaliers





annual color...like petunias or marigolds...but those aren't really importatnt o learn.





it's best to just learn them how you remember them. i used flash cards and pictures to remember a lot of them.
Reply:get to your local library and dictionary of garden plants is a good place to start or your local colledge for courses on ground maintainance ,garden history,garden design, plant identification.goodluck peter c


tip ie perennial means any plant that can be pruned and grows for years


annual means/ plant flowers and seeds in one yearflower