Pinching or cutting back bee balm early in the season can promote branching and flowering. Late season pruning is best for disease prevention. Diseased plant material should be thrown in the trash or ...

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 ...

Turn your backyard garden into a beautiful butterfly paradise. Grow swallowtail butterfly host plants and flowers.

There’s something beautifully rebellious about sowing wildflowers just before winter arrives. While most people are hauling ...

Watching a hummingbird dart through a garden, wings a blur and iridescent feathers flashing in the sun, is a truly magical ...

Both gardeners and pollinators love bee balm. When you're growing one of the two most common cultivars, scarlet bee balm (Monarda didyma) or wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa), you may have noticed ...

Don’t let the name full you, Poetry Week is more than poetry. While built for poets, Bee Balm Arkansas’s Poetry Week is an invitation for any writer or reader seeking to connect with community and ...

A sweet dog in Baltimore has found a new family after being surrendered to a shelter by his previous owner. And he doesn’t even know his new dad is a football star. According to the Maryland Society ...

While organizing some of my old newspaper columns, I came across one that declared my affection for invasive plants. In fact, I ranked them at the top of my plant pantheon, because for me, “invasive” ...

When a Maryland husband is in the dog house, he skips the flowers. Instead, when the Ocean City man is “in trouble” with his wife, he buys her a lottery ticket, Maryland Lottery officials said in an ...

Writer, teacher, community organizer, and local hero Julia Paganelli Marin has become an omnipresent force in Northwest Arkansas’ poetry scene. She created Bee Balm Arkansas as a welcoming space for ...

me, “invasive” can be synonymous with “easy to grow.” (Yes, I’m talking about you, passionflower.) Well, here’s another case where my frivolity has come back to haunt me. About 30 years ago I bought a ...