In the drawing room where the hostess stood to receive, superb pink poppies reared their heads from tall vases, pink snapdragons bobbed on the mantel piece and a bank of pink candytuft lay on the top of the piano.
The temples are overgrown with snapdragons and mallows, yellow asters and lilac gillyflowers, white allium and wild fig.
The city walls above us wave with snapdragons and iris among fig-trees sprouting from the riven stones.
Snapdragons may be treated as annuals or biennials, and each has its own difficulty.
The seed of Snapdragons is very small, so it is a good plan to mix it with sand or fine soil before you sow it.
For instance, when you take up your Primroses you can sow your Tom Thumb Nasturtiums, or, if you are near nurserymen, you can buy some dwarf Snapdragons or some blue Lobelias.
Your Snapdragonsare either hideously splotchy or crudely magenta; your pink Canterbury Bells are blue and white; your Wallflowers are spindly and colourless.
The difficulty in this case is not to get your stock of plants, but to keep them through the winter, as Snapdragons are not quite hardy, especially in a close, damp soil.
We think you probably have no greenhouse or frame of your own, so we will tell you how to grow Snapdragons out of doors as biennials.
Snapdragons and Marigolds should be a foot apart, but Lettuces can do with nine inches, and Violas with rather less.
When your Snapdragons have four good leaves, prick them out in rows nine inches apart in the most sheltered corner you have, and protect them from frost till the spring, when they will make a show all through the summer in your border.
If you can’t use a hammer and nails, and live in a cold climate, we think you will have to buy your Snapdragons every spring.
The best of these are Pentstemons and Snapdragons, the Snapdragons grown both as annuals and biennials, for so an extended season of bloom is secured.
The tall Snapdragons can also be pulled down and made to cover a surprising space of bare ground with flowering side-shoots.
Early every summer the glory of the snapdragons and the wallflowers is overwhelmed for a time by the blossom of the pear-trees and the plums which spread themselves abroad and sprawl even over the top of the wall.
Stocks--What I said about snapdragons on page 64 might well be repeated here.
Snapdragons are easily raised from seed, or propagated by cuttings.
The rounded coping of the walls, and the joints in many places (for the wall was an old one), were gay with yellow Corydalis and Snapdragons and more Stonecrops.
They went into the larger wall-garden and walked along the wide herbaceous borders through a blaze of snapdragons that here all day had been swallowing the sunshine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snapdragons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
