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Bee Balm Beauty of Cobham

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Quick Overview

Fluffy pink petals top deep purple-red bracts, making this one a bi-colored beauty. Foliage has a purple tinge, too. A hummingbird magnet! (Monarda)

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Details

SKU	6MON3
Botanical Name	Monarda
Common Name	Bee Balm
Primary Flower Color	Pink
Estimated Mature Height	28-30" tall
Ships As	Bare Root
Planting Season	Spring, Summer
Planting Depth	Plant so that the top of the root is 1" below the soil line.
Bloom Time	Mid to late summer
Estimated Mature Spread	18-24" wide
Light Requirements	Full Sun, Mostly Sunny, Half Sun / Half Shade
Soil Moisture	Average, Well Draining
Will Tolerate	Loamy Soil, Clay Soil, Moist/Wet Soil
Zones	4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Suggested Uses	Deer Resistant, Hummingbirds & Butterflies, Fragrant, Cut Flowers, Showy Flowers

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Description

As with Echinacea, the hybridizers have been working with the Bee Balms. New colors have been created, each one offering us even more of these treasured American classics.

About the Monardas This is a hybrid of the famous American wildflower with the bright red crown-shaped flowers, a description of the large scarlet blooms everyone and every hummingbird loves.

There are other species, but our famous Monarda or Bee Balm is native from the far north all the way south to Georgia, it was first discovered by world famous plant explorer John Bartram during the colonial era. Since its a member of the mint family with fragrant foliage, Bee Balm was always a medicinal plant of the native Americans, and today adds wonderful color to perennial gardens and wildflower meadows. Its a strong-growing perennial that likes moisture, and will grow in sun or partial shade.

As with all Bee Balms, the bloom begins in mid-summer, and if you cut off spent flowers for about three weeks, you'll extend the blooming into fall.

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6/8/2011

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Disappointing

By gardner

from sidney center, n.y.

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Best Uses

Large Areas

Comments about American Meadows Bee Balm Beauty of Cobham - Root:

This is my third bee balm, of which none have grown. I am very disappointed with this. I love the bee balm, and have some already, bought different colors to add to my collection. Last year I planted the two plants I bought, one come up, the other one didn't, had the replacement, and it is not coming up either. The one that come up last year, didn't come up at all this year.....

8/30/2010

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Never grew even after lots of TLC

By Tally Angle

from Cashiers, NC

About Me Avid Gardener

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Raised Beds

Comments about American Meadows Bee Balm Beauty of Cobham - Root:

two orders ofRoot samples arrived, I planted them as per instructed, but nothing ever came up.

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