bee balm
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Re: bee balm
Hi Stephanie
Hummers are all over the yard, so I guess your right
Hummers are all over the yard, so I guess your right
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Re: bee balm
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.
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.
~~~ Audrey ~~~
“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good”
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“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good”
Dr. Seuss
Re: bee balm
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
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
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Re: bee balm
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?
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?
Charla
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Latitude 38.57N; Longitude -94.89W (Elev. 886 ft.)
Re: bee balm
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
There may be snow in the garden, but there will always be eternal springtime in the heart of this old gardner - Saying of Old Coot