Snapdragons are old-fashioned favorites for the sunny border in your garden and for cutting to enjoy indoors.
Snapdragons are classic flowers named for their jaw-like blooms that, when squeezed, resemble a dragon’s open mouth.
Growing on plants ranging from dwarfs of 15cm to varieties that are 1 meter tall, Snapdragons are available in shades of pink, red, yellow, and bronze, orange, white and bi-colors, and all carry narrow, satiny, dark green leaves.
Dwarf Snapdragons include early-flowering, heat-tolerant Tahiti’. Intermediate Snapdragons, such as Princess
Series’, grow 45 cm tall, while the popular Tetraploid Series’ reaches 1 meter. All three come in a wide range of classic Snapdragon shades.
More recent varieties include Bright
Butterflies’, with trumpet-shaped, single flowers on 60 cm plants, and Madame
Butterfly’, with 60 cm, double, Azalea-like blooms. Both come in the full range of Snapdragon hues.
With such a wide assortment of single colors or mixes and plant sizes available, Snapdragons fit in well in many parts of the garden.
Mass dwarf Snapdragons, such as crimson Black
Prince’, for a solid bed of color. Dwarf
Bedding Mixed’ is an excellent choice for a multi-colored edging along borders and walkways, or as a filler in rock gardens.
Snapdragons of intermediate size blend perfectly into the middle of a mixed border, where their spiky form contrasts with plants that have rounded shapes.
Plant the tallest Snapdragons at the back of a border, or in a special garden for cutting.
For a pretty container, choose from the many colors of 30 cm Trumpet Serenade’ Pemstemon-flowered Snapdragons. Edge the pot with low-growing white Sweet
Alyssum Carpet of Snow’ for a soft contrast.
The numerous, clear colors of Snapdragon flowers combine beautifully with a wide variety of other flowering annual and perennial plants.
Red and pink flowers are a classic combination, especially attractive when planted in front of a white picket fence. Plant scarlet Coronette’
Snapdragons and pink Nicotiana Nicki’ with a row of Pansies Imperial Pink’ in front.
A river of dwarf white Little Darling’
Snapdragons forms a tidy edge for a bed of perennials, such as Bearded Irises and Canterbury Bells.
The tapered flower spikes of 45 cm Camelot’
Snapdragons set off delicate Love-in-a-mist well. Add bright Scarlet Bubbles’, Iceland Poppies for drama.
To plant snapdragons:
1.
Start seeds indoors eight weeks before spring begins
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