Scarlet Bee Balm (Bergamot) is the bright, ruby-colored cultivar of Wild Bee Balm, a popular plant due to its unique, tubular flowers that attract pollinators from bees to butterflies to hummingbirds. Bee Balm is part of the mint family and has been used for generations by indigenous peoples for various medicinal applications. This cultivar can actually survive in partial sun to shade, but thrives in full sun.
Scarlet Bee Balm are natively found nearly everywhere across the US except for California and Florida.
You will be purchasing 3, 3" plastic pots containing 3, well-rooted Scarlet Bee Balm plants with 1+ nodes of growth that were grown with love in Minnesota from seed. We will try and provide plants with multiple nodes, but it may vary depending on availability. Pictures on this listing are not perfectly representative to what you will be receiving, however, we will do our best to get you the healthiest plant possible.
| Sun Requirements: | Full Sun to Shade (2 hours+) |
| Water Requirements: | Dry to Medium Soil |
| Bloom Time: | July-September |
| Plant Spacing: | 1 Foot |
| Plant Estimated Height at Maturity: | 4 Feet |
| USDA Planting Zones: | 3-9 |