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Perennial is a word with several meanings relating to yearly or ongoing activity. Perennial may refer to:

• Perennial plant, a plant which lives for more than two growing seasons, including all trees and shrubs. See also Perennial vegetable. Compare annual, biennial.

  • A perennial border (US), or herbaceous border (UK), a maintenance intensive arrangement of soft-stemmed non-woody perennials.
  • Perennial sunflower, a new crop in development.
  • Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flower — Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies, an 1884 book by John Wood.

• Perennial stream, a stream or river that flows all year round.
• Perennial candidate, one who frequently runs for public office, often with little or no success.

[edit] Philosophy

• Perennial philosophy, the notion of the universal recurrence of philosophical insight independent of epoch or culture, including universal truths.

  • The Perennial Philosophy, a 1945 book by Aldous Huxley.

• Perennialism, or the Traditionalist School, an esoteric movement inspired by the interwar period writings of René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon; opposing democracy, modernity, liberalism and the bourgeois constitutional state, the Perennialists propose an everlasting wisdom of divine origin transmitted from the very origin of humanity and partially restored by each genuine founder of a new religion.
• Educational perennialism, the notion that one should primarily teach principles deemed to be of everlasting importance, rather than the constantly changing vocational or technical, to develop a student as a person able to apply reasoning rather than merely regurgitate facts.

[edit] In other names and titles

• Perennial Tea Ceremony, a Chinese tea ceremony focusing on an idea of the endless cycle of seasons.
• Perennial Gardeners Royal Benevolent Society, a UK based charity helping horticulturists in need.
• Harper Perennial, a paperback imprint of the publishing house HarperCollins.
• Perennial Pictures Film Corporation, an independent American animated cartoon studio founded in 1979.
• Perennial Favorites, a 1998 album by Squirrel Nut Zippers.
• Perennial Divide, a short-lived band formed in 1986, two members of which went on to form Meat Beat Manifesto.

[edit] Plants which sometimes have perennial in their common names

• Perennial baby's breath, Gypsophila paniculata
• Perennial candytuft, Iberis sempervirens
• Perennial cornflower, Centaurea montana
• Perennial flax, Linum perenne
• Perennial forage peanut, Arachis glabrata
• Perennial honesty, Lunaria rediviva
• Perennial knawel, Scleranthus perennis
• Perennial lupin, Lupinus perennis
• Perennial peavine or Perennial pea, Lathyrus latifolius
• Perennial peppercress, Lepidium
• Perennial pigweed, Amaranthus deflexus
• Perennial ryegrass, Lolium perenne
• Perennial thistle, Cirsium arvense
• Perennial wall-rocket, Diplotaxis tenuifolia

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