Looking For Heirloom Snapdragons

I'm sure there are many varieties of snapdragons. I bought a hanging basket of "trailing snapdragons". It made me think of the ones my grandmother used to have growing (they were not trailing). I remembered helping her gather seeds as the flowers matured.

Is there such a thing as heirloom snapdragons?

If so, I would love to get some for SASE. I'm pretty new to my home so I don't have anything for trading.

Thanx!
Sue

There are "wild" snapdragons out at our lakehouse. Not sure when we are going there next. They are yellow.

There are some heritage/heirloom varieties still available. You may want to look out for Black Prince, Picturatum, Brighton Rock (which may be the same as Picturatum).

Here's a link to Chiltern Seeds, and their Antirrhinum entires, they list some old varieties http://www.edirectory.co.uk/chilternseeds/pages/default.asp?enc=DXGenusNameXantirrhinum

Heirloom Seeds has them:

http://www.heirloomseeds.com/flowers.htm

Thanks for the info! I really appreciate it!

Wow Karrie! I just checked out that heirloom seed site. What a variety and great prices too! Have you ever ordered from them?

No - but I have heard good things about them. I was going to order some heirloom tomato seeds from them, but Horseshoe supplied me with two varieties, that were sufficient for my grow space, so I didn't. Here's a link to the garden watchdog on them - looks positive.

http://gardenwatchdog.com/advanced.php?search_text=Heirloom+Seeds&submit=Search

This message was edited Jun 3, 2004 12:52 PM

Thanks Karrie.
I think they can be trusted! Looks like I can send my entire spring order!

Their prices are good! :)