This week's Plant Pick of the Week is a purple-blooming native perennial known as 'Purple Rooster' bee balm. Skip to Article. Set weather. Back To Main Menu Close. Quick Look- ...

Bee balm is a must for summer gardens because it provides a month or more of colorful blooms. Several monarda species -- including red-flowered M. didyma and lavender-flowered M. fistulosa -- are ...

Bee Balm (Monarda didyma. and hybrids) ... Spikes of summer flowers in scarlet to flame red rise 3 to 5 feet tall; some with purple-red to bronze foliage. Grow in damp, partial shade.

Bee balm attracts valuable pollinators like bees and hummingbirds. It also adds stunning splashes of pink, red, violet, and ...

Bee-You Bee Happy: Showy cerise-red blooms on stiff, upright stems. Bee-You Bee Free: Deep maroon buds that open to show-stopping, electric violet-purple blooms. All bee balms prefer to grow in ...

To stimulate and prolong bloom, apply a water-soluble complete fertilizer to bee balm every two to three weeks during the growing season. Three species of beebalm ...

* What it is: ‘Purple Rooster’ is a summer-blooming U.S. native perennial that’s different in two ways from most bee balms – 1.) its flowers are violet-purple instead of traditional red ...