The colorful, adaptable wildflower bee balm plants make a great addition to flower beds, cottage gardens, tall borders, and ...

Gardeners Swear By Bee Balm—Here’s How to Keep It Thriving originally appeared on Dengarden. Gardeners looking to roll out the red carpet for hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees, need to look no ...

Many a beautiful perennial blooms in our summer gardens. These are five of my reliable favorites. Let’s begin with bee balm (monarda). This interesting, attractive, rather self-reliant perennial ...

I bought the herb labeled “Bee Balm” on a lark. I planted the small ground hugging perennial that summer and watched it spread into a patch of green. When the second year arrived it bloomed in huge ...

Bee balm is one of the best perennials you can add to your flower beds if you want to enjoy seeing lots of butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds visiting your borders. A key part of annual maintenance ...

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I’VE BANISHED most perennials from my garden in an ongoing attempt to make the place less fussy and labor-intensive. While I’ve scarcely missed day lilies or asters, monarda is one of the few ...

Bee balm is a pretty perennial lavender-colored flower native to Wisconsin prairies. It goes by a few other names including monarda, wild bergamot and Oswego tea. The Latin name is Monarda fistulosa.

Bee balm is a must for summer gardens because it provides a month or more of colorful blooms. Several monarda species -- including red-flowered M. didyma and lavender-flowered M. fistulosa -- are ...

Monarda, commonly known as bee balm, has been a popular garden perennial for many years. Most of the modern hybrids come from two species native to the eastern United States. Today’s cultivars come in ...