{"id":20266,"date":"2019-07-29T13:41:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T12:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20266"},"modified":"2019-07-29T14:27:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T13:27:29","slug":"2019-snapdragons-the-year-not-the-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/2019-snapdragons-the-year-not-the-number\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Snapdragons  (the year not the number)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20268\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/geran-thomas-019-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/geran-thomas-019-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/geran-thomas-019-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/geran-thomas-019-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/geran-thomas-019-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have previously posted about snapdragons in <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/snap-dragons-den-for-antirrhinums\/\">2011<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/tips-for-growing-snapdragons-aka-antirrhinum\/\">2016 <\/a>and<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/tips\/help-growing-antirrhinum\">\u00c2\u00a0 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is just an update on one of my favourite little cottage garden treasures. This years winners have been a 3&#8217;6&#8243; tall, white F1 variety and the multi coloured swap shop warm coloured variety shown. Add to this some self-sown plants or last year survivors and a good show has been delivered.<\/p>\n<p>This encouraged me to sow some mixed seeds early to be over wintered. I kept half a packet back to be sown in spring in case I loose all my early sowing. Germination has been fast and furious. As this variety are said to be rust free I hope for more cottage garden blooms next summer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20270\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-054a-1024x833.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-054a-1024x833.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-054a-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/whites-054a-768x625.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have previously posted about snapdragons in 2011, 2016 and\u00c2\u00a0 2015 This is just an update on one of my favourite little cottage garden treasures. This years winners have been a 3&#8217;6&#8243; tall, white F1 variety and the multi coloured swap shop warm coloured variety shown. Add to this some self-sown plants or last year survivors and a good show has been delivered. This encouraged me to sow some mixed seeds early to be over wintered. I kept half a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/2019-snapdragons-the-year-not-the-number\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20266","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=20266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20274,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20266\/revisions\/20274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}