Bee balm combines beautifully with other perennials, ornamental grasses and ... smelled like the fruit and gave the plant one of its common names: wild bergamot.

I’VE BANISHED most perennials from my garden in an ongoing ... about botanicals from the New World. Called by the common names of bee balm, horsemint and bergamot, it’s part of the mint ...

The most common type of bee balm, scarlet bee, is often planted as a hardy perennial in flower beds. The bright red flowers look like tufts of hair atop the 3-foot-tall stalks. Bee balm is in the ...

Bee balm is a pretty perennial lavender-colored flower native ... Both leaves and flowers of bee balm are edible. The most common use for the leaves is to make a refreshing citrusy tea.

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Planting perennials is an easy and low-maintenance way in which gardeners can add colour and fragrant blooms to their gardens all year round. Perfect for planting on garden borders, perennial ...

which gives them their common name of butterfly flower. This perennial is drought tolerant and has a very long bloom time, flowering all summer long. Soil pH: 6.0-6.7 Bee balm is a member of the ...

This is a perennial that has many useful qualities, and this is the month to add these new beauties to your garden. Monarda, commonly known as bee balm, has been a popular garden perennial for ...

is a stunning flowering perennial everyone should have in ... An interesting fact you might not be aware of is that bee balm got its common name because the leaves were often used to treat bee ...