I last grew Antirrhinums and put them in a vase in 2017. They were tall strong white specimens which I had planted the first year in the garden. This year I picked up some very young plants from the Bishop's Palace at the start of July and they are just now coming into flower. The speed at which they have grown is quite remarkable and another strange thing is that they are open throated, which I had not noticed up to now when admiring snapdragons in other gardens. There were in small modules with nine plants and they are just now coming into flower. I think they may be of mixed colour, but these were the first to flower, and by some luck when I planted three lots of three plants, these coral coloured ones were all together.
These antirrhinum have no snap! In the vase are a few other plants from the garden: Sedum Frosty Morn, Fuchsia 'Tom West', and the flower spike from a heuchera, of which I have no name.
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| July garden flowers in a vase. |
I am linking in this arrangement to Cathy's 'Gobstoppers'.
Once again we are having very high temperatures, and the garden is seriously parched. To give you an idea today the washing dried out in the garden in only two hours! The Antirrhinums have need watering regularly, using mainly water run when waiting for the hot water to reach the kitchen sink. Sadly the forecast shows no rain for the coming fortnight.
The antirrhinums are an interesting colour, and curious with their 'open throats'. I keep trying to get a properly scarlet variety, but they have never been the red I wanted 😉They grow really quickly from sed too, such tiny seeds and tiny emergent seedlings, but then grow so quickly after that. The fuchsia look great with yours today, balancing the contents by dangling down whilst the antirrhinums tower skywards
ReplyDeleteNow with your advice that antirrhinums grow quickly from seed, I may well try them, thanks Cathy.
DeleteI love this arrangement, Noelle! I used to mail order open-throated snapdragons from a particular nursery in Northern California every year, all branded as 'Chantilly' varieties. I've never seen them in my local garden centers and the NorCal nursery closed its doors so I wasn't able to get them this year. (The mail order business was subsequently sold but has yet to open for business.) I adored those flowers, which also managed to be more rust-free than the varieties sold in local outlets. Snapdragons are early spring flowers in my part of the world.
ReplyDeleteThanks Kris, I have looked up the Chantilly series, and have found that Chiltern Seeds sells them and with Cathy's advice, I may well buy my own seed to grow these.
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