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Bee balm that is over 5 and a half feet tall.
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WOW!
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Nice did you know you can make tea with it.
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Looks good. Around here the leaves start getting mildew by this time.
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Mine get powdery mildew, too. I have thought about cutting it down about halfway, to see if it would rebloom fresher and cleaner. Does anyone do that?
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I've never done it, but would like to know if it works.
I have been cutting my butterfly bushes and fall aster back to a more reasonable (for my space) height. I'm hoping they will start flowering at this lower height this summer.
I have been cutting my butterfly bushes and fall aster back to a more reasonable (for my space) height. I'm hoping they will start flowering at this lower height this summer.
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Not as showy as bee balm but a very nice tea
: I finally have the anise hyssop here at home rather than in the big veggie garden, at the mercy of the tractor guy. This monarda relative reseeds like crazy. Is that true with bee balm?I had to rely on its volunteers since overwintering is generally not possible. Sometimes, a poor rototiller-beaten anise hyssop would survive and I'd have a harvest. Relying on the volunteers wasn't such a good approach.
It may make a rather pedestrian contribution to your flower beds but it's multi-useful and I don't remember ever seeing mildew on it.
Steve
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My bee balm reseeds like crazy, too. Kind of invasive, really.
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Beautiful GWR! I love Beebalm.
There are some mildew resistant varieties, and I just read about a recent one, it's a Monarda bradburiana, an Eastern beebalm named"Leading Lady Plum". Which they say has magenta blooms and doesn't wash out like the species Eastern BB.
I have Jacob Cline and haven't seen powdery mildew on it, but my other varieties sometimes get it.
@so lucky, you can cut you beebalm down and get blooms if you do it before it has bloomed much. It will come backer shorter.
In fact that's a trick you can use in your garden to make a perennial that gets over tall a bit shorter. Cut them back by half in June (that's here, if your season starts a lot sooner you'd cut earlier).
There are some mildew resistant varieties, and I just read about a recent one, it's a Monarda bradburiana, an Eastern beebalm named"Leading Lady Plum". Which they say has magenta blooms and doesn't wash out like the species Eastern BB.
I have Jacob Cline and haven't seen powdery mildew on it, but my other varieties sometimes get it.
@so lucky, you can cut you beebalm down and get blooms if you do it before it has bloomed much. It will come backer shorter.
In fact that's a trick you can use in your garden to make a perennial that gets over tall a bit shorter. Cut them back by half in June (that's here, if your season starts a lot sooner you'd cut earlier).
ninnymary
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I always thought beebalm was orange in color.
Mary
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