Monarda (Bee balm; Bergamot)

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• Consistent soil moisture 
• Good air circulation helps prevent mildew issues
  
• Tall and shorter varieties available
• Shorter varieties tend to spread less
• Rain garden plant

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bradburiana (Eastern Bee Balm)

• High mildew resistance  
• Native to southern Illinois
• ​Pinkish white blooms
• Grows in rocky, shaded woodland areas
• ​Can tolerate less water than other monarda
• Bloom time: spring to summer
• 24" H x 24" W

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Iris pallida 'Albo Variegata'

​didyma 'Grand Marshall'

• A shorter cultivar
• Violet-fuchsia flowers
• Mildew-resistant
• Bloom time: summer
• ​PP 19582
• ​18" H x 18" W

​didyma 'Raspberry Wine'

• Raspberry pink/red flowers
• Mildew-resistant
• Bloom time: summer
• ​4' H x 3' W

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Vernonia lettermannii 'Iron Butterfly'

Phlox paniculata 'Nicky'

Phlox 'Fashionably Early Flamingo'

Hemerocallis 'Bela Lugosi'

'Fire Marshall' 

• Deep red flowers
• High powdery mildew resistance
• Bloom time: summer
• ​PP 23286
• ​30" H x 24" W

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Hemerocallis 'Chicago Apache'