Antirrhinum majus Appleblossom | Snapdragon

More reliable than an English summer, quintessentially cottage garden and perfectly pinkish-white, 'Appleblossom' is a snapdragon with rich green foliage that produces spikes of large, hooded and lipped flowers often visited by bumblebees and other pollinating insects. A great cut flower, they also make splendid pot plants for spring flowering in a cool greenhouse or, with some supplementary heat, they can be grown in flower during the winter. Growing instructions: Fill trays with good quality compost and lightly cover the seeds. Water, and place in a cold frame or greenhouse. Pot on when they have put on their first true leaves and then harden off before planting out at 20-30cm intervals, after the frosts have passed. Seeds sown in autumn and overwintered in a cold frame, will produce bigger plants which will flower earlier in the year, than those sown in spring. Sow: August to October or March to April Flowering: June to September