{"id":11845,"date":"2011-07-14T14:31:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T18:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=11845"},"modified":"2011-08-31T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T17:43:00","slug":"summer-snapdragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/07\/tip-of-the-week\/summer-snapdragons\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Snapdragons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nSonia Uyterhoeven<\/a> is Gardener for Public Education. <\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Now that you have the perfect container for your summer container garden<\/a>, it’s time to think about what to put inside it.<\/p>\n

Snapdragons (Antirrhinum<\/em>) are a terrific addition to an early season annual display but unfortunately once the heat of summer is upon us they tend to fade quite quickly. An easy solution to recapture the look of elegant vertical spires covered with blossoms is to swap them out with summer snapdragons (Angelonia<\/em>).<\/p>\n

This year in the Home Gardening Center our first Trial Bed is full of a number of varieties of summer snapdragons. There are two cultivars in this bed that I am unfamiliar with and am excited to watch them grow.<\/p>\n

One is the cascading Angelonia \u2018Carita\u2122 Cascade Raspberry\u2019. It reaches only 8-10 inches tall, yet spills over to form a 20 inch cascading mound. It doesn\u2019t require any deadheading and like other summer snapdragons it is deer resistant and heat and drought tolerant. This is a candidate that would be ideal spilling over the edge of a container or at the front of a border. It would partner beautifully with a dark-leaved coral bell (Heuchera<\/em>).<\/p>\n

The other cultivar is called Angelonia \u2018Serena\u2122 Lavender Pink\u2019. She gets 10 to 12 inches tall and just as wide. \u2018Serena\u2122 Lavender Pink\u2019 has already filled out beautifully in the garden and formed a nice clump. The lavender pink color of the blossom will blend with just about anything. This cheerful annual looks genteel with the silvery foliage of trailing licorice plant (Helichrysum petiolare<\/em>) and white fan flower (Scaevola<\/em> \u2018Bombay White\u2019).<\/p>\n

Other summer snapdragons in the Trial Bed are from the AngelFace\u00ae and AngelMist\u2122 series. These summer snapdragons tend to be 18-24 inches tall and fill out beautifully during the course of the summer to form a substantial plant. The other year I accidentally paired the bicolored (purple and white) \u2018AngelFace\u00ae Wedgewood Blue\u2019 with an apricot nasturtium (Tropaeolum<\/em> \u2018Tip Top Apricot\u2019) for a beautiful display.<\/p>\n

While these summer snapdragons are advertised as requiring no deadheading, they do benefit from occasional deadheading which cleans them up and encourages more new growth. They will grow and flower profusely regardless. While they can handle drought they also grow well in average garden soil. This is an easy, no fuss annual that performs consistently all season long.<\/p>\n

See a slideshow of the Home Gardening Center’s Angelonia<\/em> below!<\/p>\n[Not a valid template]\n

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Now that you have the perfect container for your summer container garden, it’s time to think about what to put inside it. An easy way to add height is with summer snapdragons (Angelonia).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":11872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[1627,1576,155,154,1628,1626,4648],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Angelonia-Angelface-Dresden-Blue-007.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-353","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11845"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11874,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11845\/revisions\/11874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}