It’s also a low growing bee balm, making it ideal for smaller gardens, or planting in generous swathes along the front of borders. Monarda Marshall’s Delight opens out like a thistle, with a structural base to the flower that develops in rings from the top until just a few petals remain, providing a long harvest window for use in infusions. Grown in pots or containers, there are few more dazzle herbaceous plants you can grow at home. Monarda ‘Gardenview Scarlet’ has a neon-red flower that responds incredibly well to deadheading, providing searingly bright colour in the garden right through from spring to early winter. fistulosa that can reach up to 90 cm tall most years, and grows in well-developed groups of stems, offering wonderful winter structure when the foliage dies back.
One of the taller bee balms to grow at home is Monarda ‘Claire Grace’, a cultivar of M. Monarda ‘Fishes’įlowers that are similar in tone and structure to honeysuckle help Monarda ‘fishes’ stand out from other bee balms, but so does the basic fact that it is one of only a handful of cultivars that are nearly pure white, but for a striking streak of pink on the underside of the petal, which fades into a pastel, salmon pink when it’s fully opened out. Its soft leaves die back faster in cold winters than others, but dry easily if you plan on using it in the kitchen or storing it for long times. didyma, with dusty purple flowers is ‘Dark Ponticum’. Monarda ‘Dark Ponticum’Ī loosely structured cultivar of M. It’s also the base for several other cultivars, with adapted flower colour, that makes use of the dense foliage and towering blooms. Scarlet bee balm has intensely vibrant crimson flowers, standing nearly a foot above the rest of the plant, creating a gorgeous airy effect in any planting scheme. The neat concentric structure creates a tidy crown of white petals, each holding a shockingly lovely flavour when brewed into a simple tea. Monarda bradburiana isn’t easy to get hold of but has one of the most delicately gorgeous petals in the natural world, presenting with sweet spotted petals, similar to the landing strip on foxglove cups. Its foliage is simple, but forms a neat and dense cluster beneath the flowers, responding well to cutting back in spring. Monarda 'Beauty of Cobham is an exceptional cottage garden perennial, with gentle candy-pink petals above warm purple petioles. Water Monarda bartlettii well through summer to help it get through any prolonged drought, and it will reward you with months and months of flowers. Monarda bartlettiiīartlett’s bee balm is pastel lavender in slightly shadier conditions, but vibrant pink in brighter borders, often producing flowers that stand way above its foliage. Like all bee balm though, it offers a great option as a mid-layer plant behind annual colour. The huge flowers of Monarda ‘Balmy Pink’ are dramatic additions to any border, offering bright and brash colour that would work beautifully with any more traditional fuchsias or even magenta salvias.
Its spectacular towers of flowers are hugely varied in colour, with bold drooping tiers of petals.
Lemon Bee Balm has an unmistakable citrus aroma and flavour, not dissimilar to lemon verbena, but with a minty undertone.
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