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snapdragons
Secret Squirrel
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Hi, my snapdrangons are coming to the end of their first flowering. If i remove the flowering spikes will they try to flower again, or is it compost time?
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Hi Mark, yes do remove them, they should come up again, have just done mine. If you leave some of your favourite ones, they will probably self seed and you will get new ones next year, though maybe not as big.
Depending on where you live, the old plant wil flower next year, dont dig them up, just cut down in autumn. I have some lovely ones all from last year
I dead head mine and they do flower again, also they flower 2 years running, unless the winter is very cold.
Thanks everyone
I have some white snapdraggons that are flowering for the third summer they are brilliant. They get taller each yar and this year have been about 2ft tall. I have cut them down now and they are flowering again. Due to the mild winter I also have two beautiful fushias that I left in tubs that have flowered again even though they werent hardy, also a number of nemesia and pelargoniums have flowered again after being left in the garden over winter.
I hope we have a mild winter this time there are lots of bedding plants that over wintered last time. Some of which like the snapdragons have seeded new plants as well.
Yes ................ but there were lots of pests that over- wintered too - many more slugs and aphids than usual for lots of people.
There's a lot to be said for a proper cold snap
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My aphids must have been drowned in the winter rain, hardly have any this year - at least no greenfly. There were some on the broad beans, but they went when I picked the tops off.
I folks, I too have had virtually no aphids, I do feed the birds to attract them and did wonder if they had picked at them. I always get loads of snails but not too many slugs. I dont mind the snails so much because they are easy to pick up after a rain shower, its the slimy slugs Im not keen on, they made me shudder when I pick them up even with gloves on.