Monarda menthaefolia

July 09, 2014
Monarda menthaefolia
Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
Monarda menthaefolia

Jul 09 2014 |

/

Show Notes

IMG_9610           Petey can’t get to the mountains, but the mountains come to him. Lucky dude.

Monarda menthaefolia or bee balm is a spectacular wildflower. Well worth a trip into a pine forest to find it. And, by the way, an excellent nectar plant for butterflies, if  that is of interest to you.  Anyway, I feel so fortunate that I found one growing way downstream from any pine forest and it made my day.

IMG_9612

Other Episodes

Episode

January 27, 2020 00:05:05
Episode Cover

Petey Le Pew

Whenever I do of my “pictures and stories” presentations I always show some photos of our chickens, followed by photos of some of the...

Listen

Episode 0

April 21, 2024 00:04:08
Episode Cover

Pale Wolfberry

When the Mesquitey family lived near Tucson I worked in a crazy wonderful nursery that was at the base of A-Mountain (Sentinel Peak) right...

Listen

Episode

July 10, 2019 00:04:53
Episode Cover

Bellota of the Borderlands

Many years ago while driving the dirt road between Klondyke and Pima, Arizona I rounded a curve and and almost crashed into an Apache...

Listen