Sowing
Sow early indoors in moist seed compost. Don't cover — light-germinating. Pot on to a bigger pot once the true leaves appear.
Care
Cut off spent flowers for longer blooming. Happy in beds and pots alike.
Harvest & storage
Snapdragon works in the kitchen — decorative and edible. The flowers are gorgeous in salads, on cheese boards and on sandwich cakes. Slightly bitter, but candied they even work in desserts.
Tips & lessons learned
Snapdragon blooms all autumn. There are low varieties at 20–50 cm — perfect for pots and edging — while the tall ones pass a metre and make elegant cut flowers. We grow mixed colours together in one flower bed. It becomes a sea of snapdragons in loud, happy colours.
They take a fair bit of cold, even a touch of frost. It's lovely to have something still flowering when the high-summer plants have called it a season.
My varieties
| Variety | Rating | Years grown |
|---|---|---|
| Lejongap egna fröer | – | – |
| Lejongap F1 Madame Butterfly Red | – | – |
| Lejongap Madame Butterfly Bronze | – | – |
| Lejongap Nanum (Runåbergs 145) | – | – |
| Lejongap Potomac Lavender | – | – |
Take it with you
The Snapdragon Guide
Coming soonEverything on this page and more, as a printable PDF: sowing to harvest, my varieties, the month-by-month schedule.
Join the letter — hear when it landsA friendly reminder: every garden plays by its own rules. Zones, soil, weather and a hundred small things decide what works — so this is how I did it and what worked for me, not a promise. Try, learn, adjust, try again.. that's half the fun anyway.