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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

bradburiana (Eastern Bee Balm)
​Discontinued from Montale-available while supplies lasts

  • 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
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​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'
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