This charming relative of the snapdragon is a spreading perennial that produces masses of blue flowers with delicate yellow throats. It makes a lovely display all summer long and is quick growing. Try it dotted around your rockery, or as underplanting in your borders.

‘Blue Dream’ _ ‘Blue Dream’ is a mat-forming to trailing, deciduous perennial with small, oval to rounded, hairy, grey-green leaves upright, branching stems bearing purple to purple-blue flowers throughout summer.

The Chaenorhinum origanifolium ‘Blue Dream’ is also known as Dwarf Snapdragon. The Chaenorhinum origanifolium ‘Blue Dream’ is evergreen.

The Island snapdragon is an evergreen shrub with arching stems that develops a dense and sprawling habit, growing to 3-4 ft. The Island snapdragon is native to several offshore islands of California where it grows in scrub vegetation with moist winters and dry summers.

In many areas, snapdragon seeds will survive low winter temperatures, and new plants will grow from these seeds in spring, making the plant seem as if it came back like a perennial. Because of their short-lived nature, perennial snapdragons tend to be grown as annuals and are replanted every year.

Antirrhinums are cheerful annual plants, guaranteed to brighten up borders and containers.

Cut your snapdragon back in the summer with pruning shears after it has stopped blooming and water deeply. This will produce blooms in the fall. Add organic material, such as peat and compost, to your soil when you cut back your snapdragons. This will improve the fertility of the soil the following year.

To help keep your snapdragons at their fullest potential, deadheading spent blooms as they have begun to fade will keep the fresh new flowers coming. You will want to take your clean, sharp pair of secateurs and cut just below the flower stem but above the next set of healthy leaves.

Temperature and Humidity Snapdragons are tender perennials that are hardy in USDA zones 7-11. But snapdragons prefer cooler temperatures and are at their best when nighttime temperatures are in the low 40s F and daytime temperatures in the low 70s F.

Place these plants at a spacing of 6–12 inches apart. For a single-stem, one-cut flower, do not pinch the plants and transplant at a tighter spacing of 4-inch by 4-inch. This results in a strong stem with superior length and bloom quality. Flowering is faster and earlier than plants that were pinched.

In spring and summer these are complemented by small purple snapdragon flowers with yellow throats. Chaenorhinum ‘Blue Dream’ is one of the most delicate cultivars available. It bears masses of flowers in summer, which almost hide the foliage. Fully hardy, grow from seed in spring or plant out in early summer.

In spring and summer these are complemented by small purple snapdragon flowers with yellow throats. Chaenorhinum ‘Blue Dream’ is one of the most delicate cultivars available.

‘Blue Dream’ _ ‘Blue Dream’ is a mat-forming to trailing, deciduous perennial with small, oval to rounded, hairy, grey-green leaves upright, branching stems bearing purple to purple-blue flowers throughout summer. Create your free SHOOT garden and make a record of the plants in your garden.