yall i am sorta embarassed to admit this...but i have never grown
snaps...i got 2 gorgeous snap hanging baskets for 2.99 each
couldn't pass em up....but the dang things seem to wilt early in the
am and unless i water 2 times a day they go a wilting?
now granted i have some plants that wilt in the hot afternoon
sun but then perk back up after sun...spv, salvias etc....
are snaps wilters?
Snapdragons are they water hogs & is full texas sun too much
I don't know much about snapdragons, but around here they are planted late fall for winter bloom. By late spring, early summer they start to look rather scraggly.
I plant snapdragon in the fall and early spring. My snapdragons that are in the ground still look okay do to the cool weather that we have had. It may be that the temperatures have warmed up all of a sudden so they are in shock. If they are in full sun, you might try moving them to where they receive morning sun and afternoon shade to extend their usefulness. As soon as it becomes really hot, you can probably kiss them goodbye. However, I do have 2 plants that are in part sun that have survived from last year.
Hi have very good luck with snapdragons year round in my Dallas garden. In the hottest part of the summer, I move the container snaps to a 7/8th shaded area (very little morning sun, briefly), and they still thrive in the indirect high summer light. The in-ground snaps often go dormant -- just a little green and nothing else -- from July-September, then start blooming again once it cools down in October. The in-ground snaps I have in the front garden have been there three years -- rain/shine/hot/cold. They are in a bed that gets western sun for about 2 hours, and the rest of the time filtered light through some magnolia trees.
Lovely cutting flowers, too! I love snaps.
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thanks for the replies ; i moved mine yesterday out of the full sun; i just fell
in love with these planters with snaps
photo
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susannah...should i plant these after they are done? or should i just keep trying to take
care of them and let them go dormant or what should i do so i can keep them year after year?
My advice is more haphazard good luck than genuine knowledge, probably, but I have found snapdragons transplant out of a pot beautifully as long as it's not in the high heat of summer, or they can stay in the pot and -- if kept out of the harshest weather -- survive to bloom in the pot the next year. My potted ones survived THREE hard freezes this past winter and came back to bloom, and I'm afraid they were sadly neglected in those freezes because I was gone when two of them happened.
So you could keep them in the pot and then transplant them in October or early next spring -- March-ish -- (and start new ones over in the previous pots, or whatever!). I just wouldn't transplant when we're in the 90-100+ degree range or below 55 degrees during the day.
Hope this helps!
sounds good...thank you:)