What's up with my monarda?
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What to do with Monarda after flowering
Comments (5)I cut mine down after they flower, sometimes I only have to cut them down by half (if I kept well on top of the powdery mildew and they are not all diseased looking) I sometimes get another small show of blooms after that, at any rate the plants look better. As for thinning them, I am in Minnesota and everything starts from scratch in the spring, I am not familiar with your climate, but if you are in the same boat, you do not need to thin them out, they are going to go where they want in the spring and you will need to control them then regardless of what you do now. Helen.......See MoreA fun surprise with my Monardas...
Comments (21)I think we have the same monarda! I have both of those colors. Mine are Raspberry Wine (for sure) and Blue Stockings (I think). Is that amaranthus right in front? Which one is it? I planted some small dark red from BB this year, but they are only a few inches high so far! Need more sun? The other plants are shading them. If you are in North Carolina and want more Goldfinches, fill up your garden with stick verbena (bonariensis), coneflowers and agastache 'blue fortune'. We have resident Mourning Doves, Cardinals and Mockingbirds that I think are the ones who forage for seeds on the ground. Carolina Wrens build nests in hanging baskets and Purple Finches build in our arborvitae. The hummingbirds are crazy for crocosmia, salvia Black&Blue, and all salvia greggii....See MoreWhat Happened to my Monarda Buds?
Comments (1)Looks like it was simply too hot and dry when the flower was developing....See MoreDid my monarda die of old age?
Comments (8)We also had a Monarda cultivar, 'Gardenview Scarlet' for maybe ten years only to have it disappear from our garden. However, in our case it was in a mixed perennial bed and as it moved around vigorously I used to pull some out every year; not Laslaslas' situation. Presumably our case is referred to in the article below; namely, when a clonal perennial spreads in such a way that garden maintenance results in the plant failing to maintain core growth. https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/publications/magazines/the-plantsman/2011-issues/june/Longevity.pdf...See Morediggerdee zone 6 CT
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