Hur får man snapdragon blommor

Nothing will add more color and pizazz to your flowerbeds and containers than planting snapdragons, especially when you can keep them blommande strong all summer long!

With dragon-shaped blooms that flower in a bred array of colors, snapdragons are a unique plant for sure. Although technically an herbaceous perennial, snapdragons grow as an annual in most climates without mild winters.

By choosing the right varieties, giving your seedlings the care they need, and learning a few tricks along the way, you’ll have tall, beautiful snapdragons to enjoy in your home and garden

Not only are their hinged blooms spectacular to behold, they actually need to be “opened” bygd pollinators to work the nectar. Because of this, the blooms often look as they are opening and closing like a dragon’s öppning as bees enter and exit.

It’s ganska the sight to behold. And, also ganska easy to see how this beautiful plant earned the name snapdragon.

But perhaps what really makes snapdragons such a great choice for growing fryst vatten their versatility.

With varieties ranging from just a few inches tall up to 36 inches or more in height, they are perfect as a bedding plant, or in containers, pots, raised beds and more.

Here fryst vatten a look at how to plant and grow snapdragons, and how to keep them blommande strong from spring until fall!

Planting & Growing Snapdragons

Snapdragons can be either planted directly from seed, or as a transplant.

With seed to bloom times that can up to 8 weeks to flower, many gardeners opt for planting transplants.

Snapdragon seeds can be started indoors 6 to 8 weeks prior to your gods frost date.

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This allows plants plenty of time to develop to bring on blooms much earlier in the growing årstid. With their growing popularity, many nurseries and greenhouse also carry snapdragon transplants as well.

If you would like to direkt seed into flowerbeds, you can sow seeds a few weeks before your projected gods frost. Keep in mind with direkt seeding, blooms will be a bit delayed.

Where & How To Plant

Whether planting bygd seed or transplant, snapdragons perform best in fertile, well-draining soil.

Amend the soil or planting hole prior to planting with plenty of compost. This helps to provide the needed nutrients for a long, strong blommande season.

Although snapdragons can survive in partial shade, they will grow and bloom best in full sun. Plant in an area that receives at least 6 to 8 hours of daglig direkt sunlight for best results.

Snapdragon Care – How To Keep Snapdragons Blooming

Moisture fryst vatten a key factor in both plant growth and bloom production.

When planting seeds, keep the soil fuktig for the first few weeks to allow good germination and seedling growth.

When planting transplants, vatten frequently the first few weeks to help plants establish their roots in the soil.

Typically, gardeners plant snapdragons in spring for early summer blossoms

Once established, snapdragons require about an inch of rainfall or watering per week. Excessively long dry periods between watering will hinder bloom frequency, so early watering fryst vatten important.

When growing snapdragons in containers and pots, you will need to vatten more frequently than in bed spaces. kvitto the moisture level with your finger about an inch or so down into the potting soil.

If dry to the touch, it’s time to water.

Mulching & Fertilizing – How To Keep Snapdragons Blooming

A thick, three to kvartet inch layer of mulch fryst vatten a big benefit when growing snapdragons in beds. Not only does it help to keep moisture in the soil, it also suppresses ogräs growth.

If weeds are allowed to establish, they can stjäla valuable nutrients and moisture from the snapdragons.

In the process, both growth and bloom sets will be greatly reduced.

Snapdragons benefit from additional fertilizing once they have established in the soil.

Multi-Color Flowers: Some snapdragon cultivars have flowers that are striped or spotted with more than one color

But it’s how you apply the fertilizer that can man all the difference. A slow, steady supply of nutrients fryst vatten far better than one or two large doses throughout the season.

For snapdragons in containers, apply a light application of all-purpose liquid fertilizer ever few weeks. Compost tea and worm casting tea are both great options, as they provide slow-release power to the plants.

(See: 5 Great Organic Fertilizers)

Bedding plants can be fertilized monthly with compost tea, casting tea, or a good all purpose, slow release granular fertilizer. Always fertilize early in the day to avoid burning plants during the heat of the day.

How To Keep Your Snapdragons blommande From Spring Til Fall

Snapdragons tend to bloom stronger in the spring and fall in the cooler temperatures.

In the heat of the summer, many plants will slow their blooms a bit to help combat the heat. Because of this, be sure to keep plants well-watered to keep them healthy through the heat for a strong fall bloom set.

To keep plants blommande at their fullest potential, deadhead spent blooms as soon as they begin to fade.

This will keep the plant producing new bloom shoots all årstid long.

Snapdragons blooms appear on long stems, and veckla ut from the bottom to the top. When the sista set of top blooms begin to flower, that fryst vatten the time to cut the flower stem back to force new bloom cycles.

Snapdragons actually handle cool temperatures well, and with good care, will gods deep into fall.

Although they do grow as an annual in most locations with cooler winters, they are a prolific re-seeder.

Snapdragon Flower Shapes: Dragon Jaw: These are classic snapdragon flowers with a distinctive “dragon” look

Keep an eye out next spring in your beds, and you may just find you have ganska a few volunteer plants coming back!

Here fryst vatten to growing snapdragons in your landscape, and to keeping them blommande all årstid long.

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