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bee balm, butterfly weed, coreopsis, clematis seedling
Posted: Jul 07, 2008 10:20 am
by Ed_B
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"
Coreopsis Zagreb
Posted: Jul 07, 2008 3:15 pm
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.
Posted: Jul 07, 2008 9:37 pm
by Gardentoad
I love your bee balm bed.
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.
Posted: Jul 07, 2008 11:26 pm
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.
Posted: Jul 07, 2008 11:51 pm
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
Andi
Posted: Jul 08, 2008 8:42 am
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
Posted: Jul 09, 2008 3:42 pm
by Ed_B
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
Posted: Jul 09, 2008 11:51 pm
by tsneal
Gorgeous Ed!
Posted: Jul 10, 2008 8:19 am
by Ed_B
Thanks Stephanie
Posted: Jul 13, 2008 8:01 pm
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.
Posted: Jul 14, 2008 8:29 am
by Ed_B
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
Posted: Jul 14, 2008 10:31 pm
by renaldo75
I saw a big clump/patch of red bee balm the other day & immediately thought of Ed.
Posted: Jul 15, 2008 6:25 am
by Ed_B
Hi Ren
nice to here from you again
Ed
Posted: Jul 15, 2008 5:39 pm
by Patrushka
Very pretty Ed! 
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.