Deadheading your flowers is an easy garden task, but is it completely necessary? The answer is sometimes! Deadheading, or removing spent blooms and seed pods, encourages some annuals to bloom over and ...

Gardeners Swear By Bee Balm—Here’s How to Keep It Thriving originally appeared on Dengarden. Gardeners looking to roll out the red carpet for hummingbirds, butterflies, and bees, need to look no ...

You can also use this time to remove roughly 1/4 of bee balm stems to the ground to thin out your plants, improve air flow, and reduce the risk of mildew issues. Summer is the time to deadhead bee ...

Want to show off your green thumb in the garden this summer? Add deadheading flowers to your bag of tricks. It simply means trimming or pinching wilted flowers off your plants, and it’s an easy way to ...

Bee balm is a pretty perennial lavender-colored flower native to Wisconsin prairies. It goes by a few other names including monarda, wild bergamot and Oswego tea. The Latin name is Monarda fistulosa.

I’VE BANISHED most perennials from my garden in an ongoing attempt to make the place less fussy and labor-intensive. While I’ve scarcely missed day lilies or asters, monarda is one of the few ...