Native / Warm season
Eastern Bee Balm
Native perennial beds with bee and butterfly traffic.
Aromatic foliage; grown here for pollinator value.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 365
- Germination temperature
- 60-75F
- Seed depth
- 0.125 inches
- Spacing
- 18 inches
- Row spacing
- 24 inches
- Start method
- Either
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 8 weeks before last frost
- Direct sow
- 14 days before last frost
- Transplant
- 14 days after last frost
- Fall planting
- 10 weeks before first frost
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Direct sow or transplant depending on your soil warmth, bed readiness, and frost-risk plan.
- How much space?
- 18 inches in-row spacing, 24 inches between rows, and 0.125 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use this as part of a diverse flowering or herb planting, and treat companion claims as site-specific rather than guaranteed pest control.
- Common failure modes?
- Crowding raises powdery mildew risk. Moderate moisture; improve air flow in humid sites. Average to moist soil with decent drainage.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Moderate moisture; improve air flow in humid sites.
- Soil
- Average to moist soil with decent drainage.
- Watch
- Crowding raises powdery mildew risk.
- native
- mint-family
- pollinators
- perennial
Browse context
- Native Catalog Category collection
- Mint Family Rotation and family context
- Warm Season Seeds Season collection
- Either Seeds Start-method collection
- Container-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- High Pollinator Value Seeds Practical trait collection
- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
- Part-Shade-Tolerant Seeds Practical trait collection
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