Companion Planting & Garden Value: Bee Balm

Monarda didyma

Spacing: 1 per square foot. Mature height: 2-4 ft.

Pollinator & wildlife value

NC State Extension's plant toolbox names Ruby-throated hummingbirds, bumblebees, and swallowtail butterflies as regular visitors, and it's a nectar source and larval host for several moth species. Three specialist bee species (Dufourea monardae, Perdita gerhardi, Protandrena abdominalis) depend on this genus specifically, and its dead stems host stem-nesting bees over winter: worth leaving standing. (source)

Plant these nearby

No well-established companions.

Keep these apart

Nothing it needs to be kept away from.

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Companion planting for Bee Balm: which plants to grow next to it, which to keep apart, and the reason behind each pairing.

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