![]() You can cut them back deep into the plant and new shoots will appear just below where you cut the dead stems. Snapdragons will continually flower as long as you remove the dead flowers. due to the heavy tall stems, plants need support. The plants are half-hardy and can be planted out in late spring. You can start seeds in the autumn if your winter is mild or in early spring in seed trays in a greenhouse polytunnel or window sill. Because the seeds are so small and they need light to germinate I never cover the seeds. Snapdragons have probably the tiniest seeds of all! Difficult to sow I have to admit but very rewarding. Germination: 7-21 days 18-20☌, need light! Number of days until plants bloom: 100-120 Planting information to grow Snapdragon Orange from seed: This variety blooms best when sown in late winter or autumn and flowers in late spring or early summer. This orange snapdragon for example has a mix of soft pink flowers with peachy orange edges. The flowers also last ages in the vase and come in any color you like. If you have never grown snapdragons before then definitely add them to your garden this summer! You will love them because of the endless new flowers these plants give, attracting many bees. Longer than I would have thought.Antirrhinum majus, Snapdragon Orange flower seeds We couldn’t have crossed the center line that much. I was nervous, and I hit the brakes a little hard. Anyway it kicked out of gear on Alameda and I jumped a little. The grinding was in the clutch, not the four-wheel drive, and if I’d paid attention when my dad told me about cars, I’d have known. But it was still there when she said, Water the snapdragons, okay? I think that’s why I forgot to ask her what it was. That was after I first saw the thing on the steps. So no, I hadn’t told her I’d water the snapdragons. Later I went and looked up what the thing was, the garden tool on the steps. No, I couldn’t have remembered telling her I’d water the snapdragons. Yeah, I said, and stood there instead listening to her move around in the living room. ![]() I was having coffee, and there were high cirrus clouds. Water the snapdragons, okay? she said from inside. I was thinking, Which flag was it, the one with the moon and the star, or was it really Venus on the flag? ![]() ![]() That was when she asked me to water them. No, wait, the snapdragons weren’t dead yet. We got up early, and I looked up where the sliver of moon had crooked toward Venus. The doctor appointment was at three o’clock. On the fire roads with her, ponderosa pines and sun-warmed granite. It was blue except where it was rusty, and it pulled hard to the left when you hit the brakes, and the four-wheel drive ground like a nightmare, but I loved it. But this is America, right, and if you can’t throw away money on a truck … I loved that truck. I traded in the Buick for that truck, and four thousand bucks, all for a hundred thousand more miles and a ride like a hay wagon. But the mint, the damn mint was growing everywhere, and the snapdragons had been dead for weeks. There was a garden tool of some kind, a trowel, I remember thinking, on the steps, and it reminded me that I’d told her I would water the snapdragons. The night before, I was out on the front porch with a beer trying to look at the sky, one of those nights when the stars … the moon and Venus together looked like the Turkish flag. ![]()
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