Thanks for the great video. I have this plant in a garden bed and I would trim it down to the ground every year nor knowing what it was. Your video help to identify it!
I grow the Native Monarda and a large assortment of other herbs as a medicinal, and tea herbs. I use the tender young leaves, not the older larger leaves, and the flowers. Thank you for your video.
Wow! Thank you so much for the beautiful, informative, and thorough video. I enjoyed watching its pollinators up close and seeing the plant through its seasonal change
Thank you! Your voice is so comforting and compliments the serenity of your garden flowers and insects. I have a red one, and really want the pink Bee Balm now. Blessings!
It was incredible seeing the double flowers on the Bee Balm so I guess this mutation of nature happens to plants, animals and humans alike. That was also quite a handful of knowledge you pass on about this plant. Now I know a lot more about them. Good job! 👏👏
I saw two double flowers this year out of the thousands of blooms, so it must be fairly rare. These grow wild in our back yard so I wanted to know more about them this year and I'm happy to share what I learned with you!
I just happened to be pulling the old flower petals out of the head the other day and noticed the incredible smell. I'm now drying some to see how well it keeps.
I mistook bee balm shoots for honeysuckle which is taking over everything. The descriptions you gave were so thorough I won't make that mistake again. Thank you. Can't the seeds just be left outside to stratify as designed? I plan on harvesting some now that I know what to look for. Thank you so much!
I hope you get a bunch of Bee Balm in your garden next year! I like to sow at least half of the seeds outside keeping some to sprout indoors, just for fun.
Beautiful! I wasn't sure how to collect seeds, every time I tried I would find little unfriendly beetles so I gave up for a bit. The hummingbird clearwing moth was a gorgeous bonus at the end
It's a perennial, so I don't bother with the seeds. It propagate easily like basil. I just harvested some from a bush I've been growing for years. Making some sun tea with it for the first time. Took the stems that didn't look so good and just stuck them in the ground on the other side of the yard. I'll be needing more to harvest and store for the winter.
Mine has never flowered. I've grown it for years and never had a single one of them flower even in a bed where everything else was doing unbelievably well and in full sun.
The wild ones around here are all light purple except for a few in my back yard, oddly enough, that are hot pink. My neighbor even has some bright red ones, probably the garden bee balm.
Hey... I wonder if the hot pink is a hybrid of the light purple and red kinds? I just had some wild bergamot on my channel a few days ago, it is very pale. Does yours look like that?
I just planted one. It’s at the end of its bloom period and going bald. What do I do to prune and am I able to get a second bloom this year or is it one and done? Can’t find a video on dead heading or pruning the Monarda. I also have a dwarf purple still in the pot. Bald bald bald. Looks really funny... any advice is greatly appreciated
It belongs to the mint family so cut away as you would basil or mint. It will bloom again. It's very early in the season, so you have time. You can deadhead it, but it may get really tall. If you prune it, it will bush out more and give you more blooms.
A great plant, but be forewarned, it can be extremely aggressive. It spreads, like many mints, via underground rhizomes. I keep mine potted in a half wine barrel; I don't think anything else could survive in it because it is so fully occupied by Bee Balm.
Sorry about that! I had another comment like this on a different video. Did you try refreshing the page? Seems like youtube is having some issues lately :/
It is hard to pin-point. I have only ever smelled it near them, like brushing up against them on a walk. but I cant tell if its the flowers, leaves, or stems.
Thanks for the great video. I have this plant in a garden bed and I would trim it down to the ground every year nor knowing what it was. Your video help to identify it!
Wild bergamot! I have two plants growing, love it
I grow the Native Monarda and a large assortment of other herbs as a medicinal, and tea herbs. I use the tender young leaves, not the older larger leaves, and the flowers. Thank you for your video.
Thats great! I first saw these growing wild in the back woods, but now they are in the garden and thicker than ever!
@@GiveitaGrow Its called bee balm because they used to use it for bee stings. It is a humming bird magnet!!! More so than bee's.
He is so wonderfully cheerful and peaceful, excellent video
Thank you!
Beautiful ❤️ little video.....thanks for sharing...
Thanks!
Wow! Thank you so much for the beautiful, informative, and thorough video. I enjoyed watching its pollinators up close and seeing the plant through its seasonal change
I'm glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for watching!
I had pinkish red ones planted outside my window and I could sometimes see hummingbirds drinking out of it in the spring time
That was really pretty and quiet. Remembering Spring, we are on the doorstep of Winter and Spring is already just beyond the door.
Bee balm is one of my favorite wild flowers. I planted some in the vegetable garden this year, I hope they flower next spring!
Thank you! Your voice is so comforting and compliments the serenity of your garden flowers and insects. I have a red one, and really want the pink Bee Balm now. Blessings!
Thanks! I have seen the red ones in a neighbors garden, so beautiful!
Very nice video of one of my favorite wildflowers! Love the inclusion of insects and hummers!
Thank you!
It was incredible seeing the double flowers on the Bee Balm so I guess this mutation of nature happens to plants, animals and humans alike. That was also quite a handful of knowledge you pass on about this plant. Now I know a lot more about them. Good job! 👏👏
I saw two double flowers this year out of the thousands of blooms, so it must be fairly rare. These grow wild in our back yard so I wanted to know more about them this year and I'm happy to share what I learned with you!
Great video bucko!
No way! Whats up you goomba?
I just happened to be pulling the old flower petals out of the head the other day and noticed the incredible smell. I'm now drying some to see how well it keeps.
At 8:17 that's hummingbird moth. Looks like a hummingbird. I thought at first it's an alien, lol!!
I have seen a bunch of hummingbird moth this year!
Thank you for clarifying the hummingbird clearing moth!! I thought it was a “regular “ hummingbird!!
I meant to buy lemon balm but when I got home I found out it was bee balm. I wanted it for my tea..thanks for the information. 🌿
Probably not as sweet, but Bee Balm can still make a great tea.
I finnally did get to see yr beautiful video.T.Y.😊
Oh good! Thanks for letting me know :)
I mistook bee balm shoots for honeysuckle which is taking over everything. The descriptions you gave were so thorough I won't make that mistake again. Thank you. Can't the seeds just be left outside to stratify as designed? I plan on harvesting some now that I know what to look for. Thank you so much!
I hope you get a bunch of Bee Balm in your garden next year! I like to sow at least half of the seeds outside keeping some to sprout indoors, just for fun.
Beautiful! I wasn't sure how to collect seeds, every time I tried I would find little unfriendly beetles so I gave up for a bit. The hummingbird clearwing moth was a gorgeous bonus at the end
That hummingbird moth is one of the strangest insects I have ever seen, so beautiful!
It's a perennial, so I don't bother with the seeds. It propagate easily like basil. I just harvested some from a bush I've been growing for years. Making some sun tea with it for the first time. Took the stems that didn't look so good and just stuck them in the ground on the other side of the yard. I'll be needing more to harvest and store for the winter.
Mine has never flowered. I've grown it for years and never had a single one of them flower even in a bed where everything else was doing unbelievably well and in full sun.
You were showing the double bloom, and I'm curious if you know more about that!? Mine have 4 to five blooms up each stalk!
I have seen some triple blooms too. I'm not sure they they do that, its the only flower I have ever seen bloom like that.
How long do they need to be stratified?
This is our first year growing bee balm.
Awesome! Mine came back really well this year, its as thick as in the wild and just about to flower :)
can you just collect the seeds, beginning of fall and toss them into your garden site then? let them have a natural winter outside?. great video...
Absolutely, I did some of that in the back woods and some in pots for the front garden.
The leaves are very hot when chewed. I was surprised
Yes, they are very pungent, just like fresh oregano.
I'm not sure what it smells or tastes like, but it smells and tastes like itself
It is Monarda fistulosa which is different than the garden Bee Balm
The wild ones around here are all light purple except for a few in my back yard, oddly enough, that are hot pink. My neighbor even has some bright red ones, probably the garden bee balm.
Hey... I wonder if the hot pink is a hybrid of the light purple and red kinds? I just had some wild bergamot on my channel a few days ago, it is very pale. Does yours look like that?
Yep, same stuff, they do fade in color with age, and as you know they get that "bald" look too :)
I just planted one. It’s at the end of its bloom period and going bald. What do I do to prune and am I able to get a second bloom this year or is it one and done? Can’t find a video on dead heading or pruning the Monarda. I also have a dwarf purple still in the pot. Bald bald bald. Looks really funny... any advice is greatly appreciated
It belongs to the mint family so cut away as you would basil or mint. It will bloom again. It's very early in the season, so you have time. You can deadhead it, but it may get really tall. If you prune it, it will bush out more and give you more blooms.
A great plant, but be forewarned, it can be extremely aggressive. It spreads, like many mints, via underground rhizomes.
I keep mine potted in a half wine barrel; I don't think anything else could survive in it because it is so fully occupied by Bee Balm.
I thought it smelled like orange?
it does.
No visual. Can hear you, just cant. See you......
Sorry about that! I had another comment like this on a different video. Did you try refreshing the page? Seems like youtube is having some issues lately :/
I dont smell the citrus smell everyone talks about. It smells medicin-y.
It is hard to pin-point. I have only ever smelled it near them, like brushing up against them on a walk. but I cant tell if its the flowers, leaves, or stems.
The terrible music adds only noise pollution to this otherwise good video.
Music is way too loud. May be good content, but have to keep muting it due to music, so not very valuable to me.
ok, thanks for the feedback.