bee balm, butterfly weed, coreopsis, clematis seedling

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bee balm, butterfly weed, coreopsis, clematis seedling

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The Clematis is a self sown seedling

bee balm has spread to about 5 ft wide X 10 ft long

No Monarchs eating the butterfly weed this year, "not good"

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Post by nanny_56 »

All so pretty Ed!

I have not seen one Monarch yet. In fact I have very few butterflies except for the white Cabbage types and skippers. I have had 1 Mourningcloak and a couple Painted ladies and that is about it.
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Post by Gardentoad »

I love your bee balm bed. :D How big is it?
I am planting a bed especially for butterflys. I need to add some bee balm to it.

I haven't seen a monarchs yet either. I have seen lots of swallowtails and have found their cats on some parsley.
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Post by Ed_B »

Bee balm bed
5x10 feet after about 12 years, and growing bigger every year.

It has come down to what it can't overrun it grows around, Daylilies have held their own.
Oriental, Asiatic, and Trumpet lilies all grow in the middle of it.

It is such a hummingbird, hummingbird moth, and bee magnet that I just let it do it's thing, plus it's beautiful in bloom.
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Post by doublemom2 »

That's beautiful... you're brave to let it run like that :) I just don't have room to let something like that go, but I bet all the creatures love to visit your garden :)

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Post by Annie »

Love the bee balm!
This is what I am planning to do with my back yard once I am permitted to start digging again :)
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Thanks all

Letting it run isn't so hard here, it is a oval shaped bed that I can mow around, so it will never get too large to handle.

another picture, it is really hard to show the full scope of it in a picture
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Gorgeous Ed!
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Thanks Stephanie
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Post by Midnight Reiter Too »

My goodness, Ed! How long have you lived there? Your plants are beautiful and so well established. Everything I have looks like a baby compared to yours.
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Moved here in June of 94,
I started that bed in the spring of 95, and the bee balm came in 96, slowly taking over
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Post by renaldo75 »

I saw a big clump/patch of red bee balm the other day & immediately thought of Ed. :wink:
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Hi Ren
nice to here from you again
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Post by Patrushka »

Very pretty Ed! :cool:

I have a bee balm bed too. It's planted in the bed that I call the invasive bed. Everything I plant there takes over. First purple coneflowers, then garden phlox, next blasted japanese honeysuckle (I didn't know that was what it was), and now it's the bee balm bed with just a few coneflowers and garden phlox and the honeysuckle still popping up on one end.
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