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• Stop the presses and throw all of your preconceived notions about the monarda or bee balm out the door.
  — Norman Winter, Arkansas Online, 15 May 2021
• Red bee balm An easy plant to care for that usually expands into a large patch by its roots.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 14 July 2023
• Some of her favorite plants to add to attract hummingbirds are bee balm, lupine, salvia, columbine and penstemon.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2020
• Some of these flowering plants include bee balms, columbine flowers, daylilies, lupines and petunias.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 10 Apr. 2023
• The Mesic Woodland Edge mix should do better in shady areas and includes such species as common milkweed, bee balm and dense blazing star.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 2 Mar. 2022
• For squash bugs, plant mint, chives, garlic, onion, tansy, radishes, nasturtiums, marigolds and bee balm near and among vines of winter and summer squash.
  — OregonLive.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• Twenty-two plants are included as nectar sources from bee balm and gaura to phlox and verbena.
  — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 2 July 2019
• For the latter, check out things like bee balms, columbines, lupines, foxgloves, hollyhocks, cleomes, impatiens and petunias.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2020
• Her choices for container gardens include mints such as the wild bergamot and spotted bee balm.
  — Robert Knox, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
• Plants that are prone to powdery mildew, such as peonies and bee balm, can be cut down, with the trimmings discarded far from these plants and kept out of the home compost pile, with the hope that next year’s plants will be mildew-free.
  — Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 26 Oct. 2022
• Leaving stems in the garden from flowering plants like bee balm attracts and provides shelter to native bees.
  — Jodi Bay, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2021
• And then there are the perennials: ferns, bee balm, coneflowers, hibiscus, black-eyed Susans.
  — Shauna Steigerwald, Cincinnati.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• The agency is also asking people to plant and encourage the planting of good nectar sources like red clover, foxglove, bee balm, and joe-pye weed to give the besieged honey bees a boost.
  — Smriti Rao, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2010
• Hummingbirds, butterflies, and—of course—bees are all attracted to bee balm, also known as wild bergamot.
  — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 24 June 2022
• Gillet said bird friendly plantings, like purple coneflowers, bee balm, and black eyed Susans, can help space out birds so as not to spread the unknown disease further.
  — Christin Nance Lazerus, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2021
• Hollow and pithy stemmed plants such as Joe Pye weed, bee balm, mountain mint, swamp milkweed and elderberry are also ideal for eggs and young insects.
  — Tovah Martin, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• Iftner and his wife, Kaye, planted an acre of native prairie grasses — milkweed, goldenrod, bee balm — to resemble what the ground looked like before it was plowed.
  — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2021
• Driving by the Fox home one afternoon weeks earlier, car windows open to the sound of screeching cicadas, Susannah noticed a red bee balm bush.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• Tail Martini Spell is an evolution of the classic martini, adding to the core spirit base a sweet and dry vermouth milk punch with cocoa powder and a cassia and bee balm aged cordial.
  — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• Native to North America, notable species include scarlet bee balm (hummers love the brilliant red flowers) and spotted bee balm (aka horsemint), whose blooms look like little fairy houses.
  — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 24 June 2022
• Nectar-producing plants such as penstemon, bee balm, and columbine are attractive to hummingbirds.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2023
• Perennials such as bee balm, catmint, calamint, coneflowers, and milkweed offer lots of food for pollinators.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 31 July 2023
• Annuals—like kochia, four-o'clock, strawflower, impatiens, moonflower, and angel's-trumpet—and perennials—like peony, bee balm, and hosta—can substitute for shrubs the first year or two.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Feb. 2023
• Rabbits usually pass on my iris, salvia, peony, veronica, hellebore, yarrow, anise hyssop, lavender, foxglove, baptisia, bee balm, lamb’s ear, catmint, astilbe, and most of my culinary herbs.
  — Carol Stocker, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2022
• In the summertime, the gardens thrive with bee balm, coneflowers, salvia and lavender, all sending an attractive festival of visual and olfactory cues.
  — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 22 Jan. 2021
• Heading back down the bluff, especially at sunset, hikers cross broad meadows where wild turkeys bob and teenage whitetail fawns, resplendent in their reddish summer coats, dart amid the asters, milkweed, bee balm and bluebird houses.
  — Pamela Miller, Star Tribune, 29 July 2020
• Some of the best plants for attracting and feeding hummingbirds are bee balm, salvia, coralbells, columbine, cardinal flower, coral honeysuckle, trumpet vine, and Indian pink.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2023
• Grasses and forbs – flowering plants with stems and leaves, such as bee balm – are less expensive to establish and grow than woody crops like willow, and offer farmers more management flexibility.
  — Lisa Schulte Moore, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2021
• In the middle section, incorporate red bee balm (Monarda didyma) and bergamot (Monarda fistulosa).
  — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
• Use seed varieties like coreopsis, poppies, bluebonnets, bee balm, phlox, blue curl, Salvia coccinea, sunflower and other selections that are well adapted for the Central Texas area.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 28 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024