Common Biennial Flowers

These are some of the most popular Biennial flowers. They will add color to your garden and are well worth the effort of growing.

• Campanula medium ~ Canterbury Bells - Also known as Bellflower, it is available in white, pink, and blue. It has a cup and saucer flower shape and grows two to four feet (60 to 120 cm) high.
  
• Rudbecka hirta ~ Black-Eyed Susan - This is one of the most popular of wildflowers. They are easy to care for and are often included in wildflower seed mixes. They are drought resistant and require full sun with well drained soil.
  
• Delphinium ajacis ~ Delphinium - Often delphiniums are thought of as difficult and time consuming to grow. This is not the case. While like all plants, they thrive in ideal conditions, a few basic growing techniques will ensure quality spikes in any garden. At least five hours of sun is recommended.
  
• Myosotis sylvatica ~ Forget-me-not - Once established, forget me nots spread happily, and wildflower gardeners love them. So try to establish them with proper conditions, and you'll enjoy them every spring.
  
• Digitalis purpurea ~ Foxglove - members of the Snapdragon Family native to southern Europe and Asia, but highly prized in North American gardens for their tall spikes of beautiful, bell-like flowers, in pink, blue, or mauve, with dark spots inside the lip. Foxgloves are the source of the heart drug Digitalis. The leaves are poisonous, mostly concentrated in the leaves. Keep away from children! 
  
• Alcea rosea ~ Hollyhock - produces plent of pink, white, yellow, or dark maroon flowers. These plants are four to six feet (1.3 to 1.9 m) high and their are some 60 different varieties for you to choose from.
  
• Lunaria annua ~ Honesty - Showy sprays of pretty purple or white flowers in spring are followed by interesting papery silver dollar sized seedpods. They are happiest in a moist shady area. Flowers may attract butterflies.
  
• Papaver nudicale ~ Iceland Poppy - Exquisite flowers for the spring garden and a superb source of cut flowers. One of the chief favourites among garden flowers, with long stems and bright saucer-like flowers.
  
• Viola x wittrockiana ~ Pansy - They are generally very cold hardy plants surviving freezing even during their blooming period. Plants grow well in sunny or partially sunny positions in well draining soils.
  
• Daucus carota ~ Queen Anne's Lace - Queen Anne’s tends to get tall (3 to 5 feet) and abundantly self-seeds. However, in the right spot it’s wonderful and carefree (except for pulling up the seedlings). In the house, it’s great as a cut flower and in dried arrangements.
  
• Dianthus barbatus ~ Sweet William - a popular ornamental plant in gardens, with numerous cultivars and hybrids selected for differing flower colour, ranging from white, pink, red and purple or with variegated patterns.
  
• Verbena bonariensis ~Verbena - The flowers are small, with five petals, and borne in dense spikes. Typically some shade of blue, they may also be white, pink, or purple, especially in cultivars.