Add this spectacular vine to your garden for a fabulous display! Snapdragon Vine, also known as twining or Climbing Snapdragon, produces attractive lime green leaves and masses of stunning, violet colored, trumpet-shaped flowers from summer until frost season begins.
Annual.
LET687 Rose Climbing Snapdragon ( Asarina scandens )
A member of the snapdragon family, Asarina Scandens is a vine that is delicate in appearance but can easily climb 10 feet. The foliage has soft emerald green, arrow-shaped leaves that are covered with tubular, trumpet-shaped blooms that are deep rose in color. The blooms cover the vine from summer until frost. Plant Climbing Snapdragon seeds in full sun to partial shade. Asarina performs well in hot and cool weather; however, it will only grow as a perennial in frost free zones so it is considered a tender-perennial. Climbing Snapdragon vines can provide an elegant screen for a sunny porch, beautify a garden fence, or give a stunning focal point in the landscape when grown on a trellis.
JB149 White Climbing Snapdragon ( Asarina scandens )
Asarina seeds are easy to grow, and soon the garden will have a gorgeous vertical addition! This Climbing Snapdragon, has large 2-inch trumpet-shaped white flowers that begin blooming in early summer and continues until frost. Small emerald green leaves are covered in a mass of delicate snow white blooms on twining stems that reach a height of 10 feet in full to partial shade. Asarina Scandens grows well in containers and baskets, and will also grow happily climbing up a trellis.
Climbing Snapdragon grows fast and easily. Despite how delicate it appears, it is quite tough. Cut Asarina back if it gets shabby and it will bounce right back. Plant the seeds in rich soil with average moisture. It is considered to be a tender-perennial, and in frost free zones, it will be evergreen. With a frost, Asarina vine will die back, but it may have new shoots in the spring. Give it a top dressing of compost once a year in early spring.
LET474 Creeping Snapdragon ( Asarina procumbens )
A very useful creeping plant for rock gardens, cascade over stone walls or grow as an annual. Spills well out of large containers.
A perennial noted for its trailing stems and snapdragon-like flowers. It was once included in the snapdragon genus as Antirrhinum asarina. It typically grows to only 2-3" tall and spreads by trailing stems to 24" wide. Kidney-shaped, coarsely dentate, gray-green leaves to 2" long. Two-lipped, snapdragon-like flowers are pale yellow with deep yellow throats and light purple veining. Flowers bloom singly in the leaf axils in summer.
Does well in zones 6-9, and often grown as an annual.