Spring bloom named for its resemblance to a mythical creature

Usage examples of snapdragon.

The first thing that met his eye was Doctor Leonard Rugg sitting with his back to the room, staring morosely into a bowl of snapdragon gone cold.

Then I began moving up the scale again: a snapdragon, a black grouse, a gecko, and a bowlegged mongrel with one eye, chewed ears, and a body bearing the scars of a thousand back-alley battles.

Baur found four factors responsible for the red color of snapdragon blossoms.

Two more snapdragons died in the fight and two others were wounded, but Grindal and Dorkon were captured.

Painted in the background were spirelike inflorescent yellow and orange flowers that resembled small snapdragons.

Those violently blue hydrangeas, the blood-red of roses, the hot pink of snapdragons.

I picked a small bunch of yellow and pink snapdragons from the front garden and took them to the cemetery, to place them at the family tomb for the two pensive angels on their white cube: it would be something different for them, I thought.

Most of the cottages were whitewashed and thatched, their small gardens full of chrysanthemums and last snapdragons and roses.

On the table in the pavilion Kitty had put a big blue bowl of greengages and plums from Rannaldini's orchard, a matching blue vase of yellow snapdragons and red dahlias and two big jugs of lemon barley water but no alcohol.

At five-thirty, I'll pull up the salvia and replace them with Dutch iris, roses, snapdragons, ferns, ground cover.

A patrician rose would not have been caught out with blight in such surroundings, and gladioli and snapdragon recoiled from the stench of decomposing vegetation and insects.

Like women in their Ascot finery jostling forward to watch a big race, the herbaceous border was overcrowded with white-and-pink phlox, dog daisies, red-hot pokers, foxgloves, yellow snapdragons and soft blue cathedral spires of delphinium.

There, on her worktable with her brushes and palette knives, was the little white vase filled with the pink snapdragons she'd picked from her own garden that morning.

Outside a glorious July sun spread radiance and glow over an old-fashioned garden, over tall yew hedges, and fantastic forms of green birds and heads of beasts carefully cut and trimmed, over clumps of late roses and rough tangles of marguerites and potentillas, of stiff zinnias and rich-hued snapdragons.

Festooned with color snapshots, clippings, blue and red ribbons, Dad's Chamber of Commerce "medal," dried wildflowers, gorgeous seedcatalogue pictures of tomatoes, snapdragons, columbine.