Northeast Gardening: What's blooming today? # 8, 1 by aspenbooboo41

aspenbooboo41 wrote:
Kim, if you can get some seeds from the bee balm I would love to have them! I love bee balm, and have a mahogany color this year. It's a great color and the plant has a nice almost shrub-like habit. It smells great too, of course. Madeline, the 3yr old cutie-pie next door says "it smells like pizza!" LOL It really does smell just like oregano. Unfortunately, I think I've almost lost it to mildew (which has overtaken my zinnias and cosmos too). But, I will try to collect seeds from it and hopefully we can trade!

Here it is from two weeks ago when it didn't have the mildew: