Snap ,snap, snap. (Antirhinums Snapdragon)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Antirhinums Snapdragon
Date:	10/05/08 (459 review reads)
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Advantages: Pretty

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Antirrhinum , Snapdragons.

I can remember my finger being "bitten" by a snapdragon when I was a child. I would pick a flower, pinch the sides at the base of an individual flower and make the dragons "mouth" open, I would put a finger from the opposite hand in the flower "mouth" and the flower would bite it.

The snap dragon are a native to the Mediterranean region. They grow as a pretty cottage garden flower in England. The Snapdragon we grow in the garden can be a standard flower or a dwarf variety. The standard flowers are about 18 to 24 inches tall the dwarf 10 inches. The snapdragons are plants of the Genus Antirrhinum, in the figwort family Scrophulariaceae.

The snap dragon is a Perennial but used as half hardy annual. The seed can be sown in November through till May. They will flower from late spring early summer, also in the late summer early autumn Snap dragons do not like the really hot summer days.

The snap dragon plant grows long spikes there are narrow green leaves that grow up the spike then the flowers many individual blooms growing close together making the flower spike. One plant may grow several spikes of flowers. The colours of snap dragon flowers are reds yellow pinks white and orange, most are one colour, some are striped
Snap dragons are not visited by butterflies as the pollen is at the base of the long tubular "mouth" flower, but bees can get in and pollinate the flower.

The snapdragon grows well in full sun in a good soil which is well drained .The snapdragon likes to be watered well. If you dead head the flowers they may produce new spikes in the autumn. If you do not dead head the seeds can be collected and sown for flowers the next year. The snap dragon is really a pretty flower to grow in your flower beds.


Enjoy your garden this summer Mary.

Summary: A pretty flower that will snap your finger !