{"id":11174,"date":"2011-10-14T01:33:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T08:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11174"},"modified":"2011-10-14T01:33:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T08:33:27","slug":"snap-dragons-den-for-antirrhinums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/snap-dragons-den-for-antirrhinums\/","title":{"rendered":"Snap Dragons Den for Antirrhinums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4322597527\/\" title=\"Antirrhinum by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2498\/4322597527_73c0e706a1.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Antirrhinum\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Invest in some Antirrhinums but ignore the cynical dragons on the BBC TV programme &#8216;Dragons Den&#8217; who are yet to invest in a garden business.<\/p>\n<h3>Ways of Growing Antirrhinums<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Grow from seed using the sowing instructions on the packet. Generally they recommend sowing in March or April although I have some overwintering plants sown in September.<\/li>\n<li>Buy young seedlings from a garden centre in spring. You do not need to worry about damping off if you buy a pot full of seedlings.<\/li>\n<li>Buy plug plants that will save you the job of pricking out and some seedling losses. The jumbo plugs can go straight into the ground.<\/li>\n<li>Antirrhinums are short lived perennials and will probably return to flower next season. Trim them before winter to avoid straggly growth and encourage new branches in spring.<\/li>\n<li>Allow your plants to set seed and they will self sow or you can collect the prolific seed for your own sowing. Setting seed is a sign for the plant to stop flowering so an alternative is to deadhead to get more flowers than seed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4535205929\/\" title=\"Antirrhinum siculum \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4060\/4535205929_35af940716.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Antirrhinum siculum\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Antirrhinum siculum (Above) is a more exotic breed of snapdragon growing in warm dry conditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comment<\/strong><br \/>\nSix ways to grow Antirrhinums and confound the snapdragon fraternity with colourful, scented, cut and garden flowers.<br \/>\nSeeds are not a big investment and you get a good return for your money without needing outside investors.<br \/>\nBeing a natural gardener you wont need to give away 50% of your plants for an investment of half the price of a packet but may be willing to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six ways to grow Antirrhinums and confound the snapdragon fraternity with colourful scented cut and garden flowers. Seeds are not a big investment and you get a good return for your money without needing outside investors. Being a natural gardener you wont need to give away 50% of your plants but may be willing to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}