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Monarda fistulosa | ||||||||||||
Wild Bergamot, Bee Balm, Horsemint, Oswego Tea | ||||||||||||
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A beautiful perennial well known as a medicinal herb. The masses of pale-mauve blooms are very attractive to butterflies, bees and other pollinating insects, The foliage is scented. | ||||||||||||
Sowing and/or growing instructions | ||||||||||||
Sow under glass at 20C/68F on the surface of good quality, moist compost, covering with a dusting of sieved compost or fine vermiculite, transplanting into individual pots when seedlings are large enough to handle and planting out in early summer after hardening off. Alternatively, sow direct, 3mm deep in moist, finely raked soil, thinning plants to about 12in/30cm apart. |