{"id":358,"date":"2016-05-02T00:11:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T07:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=358"},"modified":"2016-05-03T08:43:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T15:43:26","slug":"monarda-or-bee-balm-gardenview-scarlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/monarda-or-bee-balm-gardenview-scarlet\/","title":{"rendered":"Monarda or Bee Balm Cultivars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Monarda enmass<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/monardia-gardenview-scarlet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-359\" title=\"monardia-gardenview-scarlet\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/monardia-gardenview-scarlet.jpg\" alt=\"Monardia Harlow Carr\" width=\"500\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/monardia-gardenview-scarlet.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/monardia-gardenview-scarlet-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>I have not grown Monarda or Bergamot as an annual or a perennial. This large bed of perennial Monarda hybrid &#8216;Gardenview Scarlet&#8217; was very showy and looked exceptionally good in a sunny well mulched site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some plants attain a status of the must have plants or flowers of the moment, (do you remember when no one grew Verbena Bonariensis). If this Monarda isn&#8217;t already in great demand (and I have missed the boat) then it is destined to be in future. The tufty red tops on the flowers are a strong red colour and grew 2-3 foot tall.<\/p>\n<p>As a suffix <strong>Ardia<\/strong> can mean &#8216;continuous quality&#8217; (on its own it means &#8216;Sheep&#8217; in Basque.) I guess the former definition is why Gallardia and Monardia are so named but then again&#8230;.<\/p>\n<h3>Monarda Description<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;Monarda astromontana Bees&#8217; Favourite&#8217; has masses of flower spikes bearing tiers of soft mauve flowers are produced by this quick and easy to grow border plant.<\/li>\n<li>It flowers easily in its first season from an early sowing, producing a bold display of flowers over a long period.<\/li>\n<li>Exceptional for its unusually shaped flowers on strong square stems and the rich minty fragrance, which is freely released when the plant is brushed.<\/li>\n<li>Compact upright habit and makes a very neat and tidy plant which will add structure and shape to the border, particularly if planted in groups of three.<\/li>\n<li>Excellent for cutting and beloved by bees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Cultivation Requirements<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the easiest perennials to cultivate.<\/li>\n<li>Happy in sun or light shade and any ordinary garden soil, although they prefer a rich moisture retentive soil which doesn&#8217;t dry out in the summer.<\/li>\n<li>The mat like roots soon form a large clump that needs dividing every couple of years.<\/li>\n<li>In dry soils they don&#8217;t grow quite so tall.<\/li>\n<li>deadhead for a second flush of flowers<\/li>\n<li>Powdery mildew may be a problem, spray with fungicide when the plant is young<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>RHS\u00c2\u00a0 Selection<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Monarda Beauty of Cobham AGM &#8211; arching pale pink blooms.<\/li>\n<li>Monarda Garden View Scarlet as below also has an AGM<\/li>\n<li>Monarda Schneewittchen white framed with a ruff of green bracts.<\/li>\n<li>Other Monarda to mconsider; Jacob Cline deep red bracts and dark foliage, Croftway Pink taller variety 4&#8242;, Violet Queen with violet flowers and purple tinged foliage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Monarda seeds as described above from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=monardia\"> Thompson and Morgan<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Monarda Gardenview Scarlet by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3793167060\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3446\/3793167060_6bf98ab1b3.jpg\" alt=\"Monarda Gardenview Scarlet\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monarda enmass I have not grown Monarda or Bergamot as an annual or a perennial. This large bed of perennial Monarda hybrid &#8216;Gardenview Scarlet&#8217; was very showy and looked exceptionally good in a sunny well mulched site. Some plants attain a status of the must have plants or flowers of the moment, (do you remember when no one grew Verbena Bonariensis). If this Monarda isn&#8217;t already in great demand (and I have missed the boat) then it is destined to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/monarda-or-bee-balm-gardenview-scarlet\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}