Lemon Bee Balm Seed

Attracts bees, birds and butterflies, and makes sensational tea. This is a lemon-flavored variety, also an heirloom. Superb tea plant with striking pink-purple flowers that make soothing tea or an enchanting, fragrant cottage-garden bouquet. Because seeds are sown very shallowly, take care to keep moist until sprouts appear. Cut plants back after flowering to encourage re-blooming. Rhizomes will spread, giving you free plants you can divide every few years. Perennial. Photo courtesy of Baker Creek Heirloom Seed.

• Days to germinate: 7-14
• Days to maturity: Begins blooming in early summer through late summer
• Start indoors 4-6 weeks before last frost. Sow 1/8” deep in sterile planting medium
• Transplant spacing: 12-15”
• Sow outdoors when temperatures reach 40º
• Seed spacing: 12”
• Seed depth: 1/8”
• Produce size: 1” flowers, 3-6” leaves
• Yield: Depends upon length of growing season
• Mature plant height: 24-48”
• Suitable for container growing: No
• Year of discovery: Unknown; native to eastern North America