snapdragons

Rocket snapdragons from maanursery.

Annuals. Several species, Several types actually. The Afghanistan snapdragons are hardly recognizable as such. Several sizes to choose from, 12" to 36". 

You can have 50 seeds for $3.00 + shipping from paceseeds. I bought several things from Pace this year and they are very good. The seeds arrive within a few days.

With snapdragons you can get a photograph of bees sitting comfortably inside as if having a siesta from busy bee activities.

And it is the cutest little thing.

All you have to do to achieve such photographic excellence is have a good camera and sit around a patch of snapdragons and watch for bees.

The bee is not taking a nap, rather, it never stops, it is seeking out young untouched damsel maiden snapdragons to roughly open them right up, as if a door, and crawl right in, and rape  and pillaging inside there, who know what they get up to once inside with the cover down, and then come crawling out drunk all covered with moist sticky bright yellow pollen from antennae to stinger and grinning from dilated eye to dilated eye.  Like this:

The flowers are called snapdragons because some species have what appears to be a menacing face and their petals separate when squeezed gently between two fingers giving the appearance of speaking. Without actually snapping. That's a bit oversell. So talking dragon then. It is a childhood thing to make the flower talk amusingly, to say dragonly things. Everybody does this. Come on, put on a little ventriloquism to it. 

When the flowers expire the petals wither and the dry stalks look the unkempt mess. If left alone pods will develop that contain tiny black seeds. The seed pods of some snapdragon species look like human skulls, [snapdragon seed pods] and let the anthropomorphism begin. 

Photo pinterest.

While others look like impish faces.

More  impish seedpod faces, ritebook.blogspot.