bee balm

[Ed_B]

bee balm

[tsneal]

Wonderful Ed. I better the hummers are in heaven.

[Ed_B]

Hi Stephanie
Hummers are all over the yard, so I guess your right

[party_music50]

Beautiful! It's wonderful that you have the room to grow such a huge patch and I'll bet it smells fantastic to brush against it!

A friend gave me a dark pink flowered bee balm many years ago and I still grow it (having to contain the runners every few years). I liked it so much that I got some with a lavender flower... but for some reason, that plant was a much more aggressive runner so I didn't let it last the season in my garden.

[Ed_B]

Hi Party
I have it in a circular bed that I mow around, so it can't go to far.
I also noticed that on one end of the bed, Climbing Rose, daylilies, Clematis, etc, have been holding it at bay for a number of years, so it can be held in check if need be.
It's a hummer magnet, and the minty smell is OK.
Ed

[eastwood2007]

I love bee balm, and Ed, yours is STUNNING!

I didn't know it till a few years ago when I picked up a variety I didn't have, that each different variety has a different scent.

Did everyone else already know that?

[oldcoot]

Ed, they are beautiful. Have never been able to grow Bee-Balm. Must have planted it in the wrong place. I did that a lot starting out. That is why I concentrated on Liliums. Iris, Daylilies - never seem to go wrong there. OC always did well with Hosta. Must be the soil. Coot