Beginner Gardening: Hackberry Trees, etc, #5, 1 by SunnyBorders

SunnyBorders wrote:
Interested in what you say about Monarda, Sharon.
It really is a very useful sunshine plant.
Appreciate the support for the false-Bela Lugosi. I'll hold it against the company, not the plant itself!

One more picture (perhaps repeated).
It really is very sad, but until last year, if I was working in the middle of one of these plants (deadheading), I'd have been working in the middle of bees, mostly honeybees. This year the most bees I've seen on one plant is three
(all bumblebees). Did see a few small honeybees at the beginning of the season, but seeing none now. Read about their problems.

I don't think I'm a particularly emotional person, but the loss of the honeybees is like the loss of (fellow worker) friends.