Monarda Upscale ‘Lavender Taffeta’ Bee Balm

A Proven Winners variety, Monarda Upscale ‘Lavender Taffeta’ Bee Balm is a showy native perennial that blooms midsummer, with its well-branched stems offering a second flush of flowers, extending its bloom time. Heavy blooming, ‘Lavender Taffeta’ sets shaggy, globular, dark lavender purple flower heads. Borne singly atop long, willowy, square stems, the fragrant, nectar-rich blossoms come in abundance; attract tons of bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds; and make excellent, eye-catching cuts for vase or arrangements.

A Monarda hybrid variety, commonly called bee balm or bergamot, ‘Lavender Taffeta’ is an herbaceous plant with a clumping habit of shiny, lance-shaped dark green leaves that emit a minty scent when crushed or bruised. The fast-growing plant is rhizomatous and self-seeding and will form colonies over time. An attractive plant even when not in bloom, Monarda ‘Lavender Taffeta’ is shown to best effect when massed or gro