Monarda Bee-True - Bee Balm Ornamental Leaves

Monarda Bee-True - Bee Balm Ornamental LeavesWe love the Bee You series of Monarda in our garden for their ample flowers and resistance to disease. We planted some in both our patio area and our Earth Day garden to stunning effect. Bee True has dark pink magenta flowers that open from magenta colored buds. The blooms sit in red velvet centers, which blanket the plant for months of color. Blooms are eye popping on a blanket of darker green foliage. The medium size of Bee True, 20 26 inches heigh,

the sheer volume of blooms will blow you away

to bronze orange

Allium always lands on our list of go-to plants for a reason: it’s beautiful

The dark green leaves provide a perfect backdrop for the blooms and a beautiful contrast to the brighter greens of your garden

Showers of pink flowers emerge in unison from densely packed foliage just as our collective consciousness creeps towards pumpkins and changing leaves

Emerging in late winter

Here's where this tree truly earns its keep: native willows rank as keystone species in ecosystems

At 15 to 20 feet tall and wide

as Doug Tallamy and other researchers emphasize

Even though Kniphofia looks exotic it's hardy as far north as Zone 5B (which includes) Michigan

though it strongly prefers well-drained sites—soggy soils invite problems with verticillium wilt and canker

The 3-inch-long flower clusters are smaller by about half compared to those of common lilacs