These never come back for me,are they suppose to come back from root or reseed?
Purple Bee Balm
Is that Monarda? At year 3 for mine they have come back by gangbusters. I am not sure of the cultivar in your pic, but mine looks the same.
I also have 'rasberry wine' and that looks happy in the garden, too. It blooms a bit later than the lavender one.
I had the red ''jacob cline" monarda but that one succumbed to mildew right away in our humid climate.
We planted them for the butterflies and hummingbirds. Have seen a lot of fritillarias on ours this June. Not so many HBs seem interested in it, though.
I got this one small start at the round up,I've always liked these but they never come back,might get lucky this time!
I am absolutely overrun with monarda. This past fall, I pulled up handfuls, and just threw it out because there was so much. In the spring, I pulled up still more handfuls, and threw it out AND I actually transplanted some to other areas in the yard, and I still have too much.
I think the reason why I have so much is that I deadhead after it blooms so that it is able to rebloom. I'm sure that there must be thousands of seeds in my yard. I have raspberry wine, jacob cline, and a lighter shorter pink one whose name I don't know. It just spreads so easily, and quickly. I don't do anything special to it, but the soil is in good condition.
Very pretty,which one is that?
Mine is reseeding too readily also. This is Jacob Cline, I think, back on 6/6. I just cut them back today.
Why the different heights on your flowers,have any ideas?
I have no idea, but about the time the first wave was at it's peak, I noticed a bunch of new little plants. Here is my Dwarf Grand Marshall, new this year. Much more compact, although I don't know what it will do next spring.
Now those are great looking bee baLM,nice and neat and compact plants.
Did you grow your original plants from seeds? (I bought mine from Bluestone, but now that I know the seeds germinate so easily, I wish I had started them from seeds!
They have really developed a lot of new monarda cultivars in the past few years. Various monarda offered by Bluestone:
http://www.bluestoneperennials.com/b/bp/search.html?mv_session_id=X3iVWFGA&co=yes&ma=yes&mc=1&tf=name&to=f&rf=*&sp=results_pics&st=db&fi=products&mv_value=nametype%3Dscientific&ml=45&mv_value=srchtype%3Dkey&from_search=1&user_specified=1&sf=%3Acode%3Aname%3Acommon_name%3Ashort_desc%3Adescription1&se=monarda&su=1&op=rm&sf=is_coupon&se=1&su=0&op=ne&sf=disc&se=0&su=0&op=gt&hide=1&submit.x=7&submit.y=8
I've got a couple more plants, I think Pink Supreme, that aren't nearly as big, and don't have any blooms on them yet.
Oh I like the Lambada!
Tropicman,
That was a picture of Jacob Cline. I also cut mine down about a third around the other plants, otherwise they will block all the light, so mine appear to be different heights.
Here is raspbery wine.
pennyfeather, I love your hot poker flowers in the front. I've been thinking of adding them to my small perennial flower bed.
Ayah
I planted 3 different red hot pokers this year, can't wait until next year when they bloom!
Whoa! How tall are those 6ft?Beautiful!
Hello! I have never grown monarda before, but I bought some this year at a local herb and native plant sale. This one was sold as "Lemon Bee Balm", and it's leaves do smell like lemon. It looks a little like lambada. I love it - looking forward to learning more about monarda and adding some more cultivars next year!
From some of the pics I saw it does to me,and the leaves smell like lemon,thats great !
Thanks for the info!
Tropicman,
This picture of the jacob cline shows the height differences, since I cut down the stalks about third so that it doesn't crowd nearby plants.
The torch lillies in my other picture with the raspberry monarda are probably only 2 or 2 and a half feet tall. That is a view looking up the incline in front of my house.
So those are at least 3ft or more at there highest?
My tallest ones are more like 4 'to 4 1/2'
Never knew they got that all!!!
Here is my wild Bee Balm aka Bergamot.
Here is the red........
Another view of the red.....
And here is my purple.
Last one......
My pink (the wild) and Red are 4 to 5ft tall,the purple are only about a foot tall.
Oh My I love the colors of the wild one!!!!
Jacob Cline is well over 5 feet.
Oh My!
I like plants that almost eyeball to eyeball!