Here's a quick follow-up to the Spring Flowers posts. One of the pleasant surprises about the cabin garden was the bee balm flowers, which were blooming when we first took a look at the place. Shown in the photo here from last summer, they were, and are quite exotic to me, a big attraction.
They are a showy flower and I would like to spread them into the front of the yard, so this year, we're watching how they grow. Here they are, already started in a vigorous patch, which I have fed with some Peter's fertilizer.
The flowers are popular with bees, of course, but they also attract humming birds, which we will have around the yard all summer. I have seen these plants in the wild along streambeds up in the Park. Also, they are used in several folk remedies - especially as a tea, but we haven't tried that yet.
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