Despite your best efforts, you might be having a hard time inviting hummingbirds to your feeder. These colors could be ...

Bring plenty of hummingbirds flocking to your yard with an array of nectar-rich flowers that make excellent fillers and spillers in hanging baskets.

Good mid-season bloom choices include Scarlet Bee Balm (Monarda didyma), Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa), and Blazing Star (Liatris spicata). Some of my late-bloom season favorites include Zig ...

To help with your spring plant-selecting, here's a collection of plants that have won assorted awards for the 2025 growing season.

Simone shows how by dividing up a spreading patch of scarlet bee balm (Monarda didyma ‘Fugue’). Using a spade, she chops through the middle of the clump, digs around the edges, then lift the ...

Red Velvet also has a wider spread. These are hybrids but the Monarda didyma, commonly called scarlet bee balm, is native to 26 states and Canada. It is a mystery to me that I have not run into a ...

syriaca) will provide food for the developing Monarch caterpillars. Scarlet Bee Balm (Monarda didyma) and Spotted Bee Balm (M. punctata) are nectar favorites of many butterflies and moths.

You have likely seen bee balm seeds at your nursery while browsing the new seed packet arrivals each spring. However, scarlet bee balm is a step up thanks to its stunning red flowers. Hummingbirds ...

I planted a scarlet bee balm beneath my office window. Over several years it spread, the mass of flowers blooming midsummer in time to feed juvenile hummingbirds. Once the flowers are spent, the ...

In June and July, cone flower, scarlet bee balm, wild bergamot, mountain mint, coreopsis, and queen of the prairie have been in full bloom. We look forward to blooms continuing into the fall with ...

You can also plant native plants with red, tubular-shaped flowers that attract hummingbirds to feed, like scarlet bee balm, cardinal flower, Eastern red columbine, and petunias. Try to refrain ...

I love watching the hummingbirds flitting about the scarlet bee balm in the backyard. When it comes to keeping the cabbage worms in check, it’s hard to beat the local bluebird population. All in all, ...