Hi! I don't have the seeds, but I have a nice lemon balm plant in a 4' pot that needs to be repotted!! I could bareroot it and send it to you! Maggie

Culinary Uses: Use fresh leaves in salads and as a garnish for fish and other dishes. When candied, the leaves make attractive cake decorations. Chopped leaves can be added to egg, fish and chicken dishes and sprinkled over fresh vegetables. Goes well with corn, broccoli, asparagus, lamb, shellfish, ground black pepper, olives and beans. Add the leaves to cooked dishes in the last few minutes. They can also be added to summer drinks and fruit salads, soups, sauces and ice cream, and make a good substitute for lemon peel in recipes. An ingredient of Benedictine and Chartreuse. The flower tips and young leaves are floated in wine or fruit cups as a flavouring and garnish. Substitute for lemon rind in jam making and add to marmalades. Makes a delicious tea, alone or added to ordinary tea. Medicinal Uses: It helps relieve anxiety attacks, palpitations with nausea, mild insomnia and phobias and when used as a sedative it is good for children. It combines well with peppermint to stimulate circulation and can also be used for colds and flu and is most effective in the early stages of a cold. The tea is used to treat headaches and tiredness, mild depression, eczema, laryngitis, colic and dizziness and is reputed to enhance the memory. It calms a nervous stomach, controls high blood pressure, relieves menstrual cramps, promotes menstruation and treats insomnia. Useful for liver, spleen, kidney, bladder and bowel troubles. Helps if suffering from tinnitus (ringing in the ears). Fresh juice is used to treat goitre and GraveÂs Disease. It is especially suitable for children and makes a good substitute for chamomile. A crushed fresh leaf applied to insect bites eases discomfort. As a poultice, it treats sores and tumours. In ointment, it is good for cold sores. Other Uses: Attracts bees to the garden. Potpourri. An infusion of leaves makes a refreshing skin toner and can be used in rinse water for clothes. A stronger infusion makes a good rinse for oily hair. Use as a facial steam for dry skin and to treat acne. Use in furniture polishes. The leaves rubbed onto wooden furniture make a fine furniture polish. Rub on a fresh leaf to soothe insect bites. Use in sleep pillows and add to soaps. Used to bathe discharging eyes in puppies. Used to bring down retained afterbirth in farm animals. Also used for farm animals for eye ailments, nervous and brain disorders, heart abnormalities, uterine disorders, to increase milk yield and to prevent miscarriage. Warning: Avoid medicinal doses when pregnant or if suffering from night sweats. People with either Grave's disease or thyroid-related illness should not use this herb except under medical supervision. Prolonged contact with balm plants or leaves may cause contact dermatitis (itching, sting, burning, reddened or blistered skin) or it may sensitise you to other allergens.

It has gone to sleep for the winter. Leave it be and when the weather warms up again, come spring, it will bounce back with renewed vigour. Even in my subtropical climate, lemon balm and many other plants go into dormancy in winter. In a cooler climate, lemon balm will often die right back to soil level. This is quite normal. Even plants need their sleep. Do nothing. Just give it enough water over winter to keep the soil just barely moist.

Carol: Your husband is a genius with his water pumps and pipes to draw rainwater for your roses. Husband is on vacation this week. He asked me what he should do. I told him to get horse manure for my roses. He broke out laughing. He always gets horse manure for my birthday in Sept., but he did not, so I ask him now 12/7/22. I have a sore in the corner of my lower lip. Thank God it's NOT cold sore, but vitamin Bs deficiency. That's from eating husband's Dove Dark Chocolate, I gained 5 lb., from 115 lb. to 120 lb. just from eating his sweets & croissants. I forget that I don't run, but he runs 6 miles per day, and 10 miles on weekend. I have to remind myself that if I eat sweets, then I have to do 1 mile on the treadmill. Easier to stop eating sweets & bread, than to torture my 61-year-old body on the treadmill. I haven't used lemon balm tea for a month since I'm saving it for my daughter's stressful final exams. She's in 2nd year of college and is going through 3 interviews this week for an actuary internship job in the summer. Last night I made lemon balm tea to ease the sore on the corner of my lip, and WOW, it was instant relief. I'm no longer in pain when I smile or brush my teeth from that sore. I also resume nutritional yeast for B vitamins, esp. B12. Sore on mouth is a sign of vitamin B deficiency, esp. B12. Best sleep ever from drinking lemon balm tea, and I'm happy when woke up. Lemon Balm tea is famous for healing cold sores, any inflammation and insomnia, see excerpt below from WebMD: " Applying a lip balm containing an extract of lemon balm (LomaHerpan by Infectopharm) to cold sores seems to shorten healing time and reduce symptoms if applied at the early stages of infection. Taking lemon balm (Cyracos by Naturex SA) twice daily for 15 days improves sleep in people with insomnia. " I would give up all my 150+ fragrant roses, but NOT below lemon balm plants in my garden. It rescues my daughter from stress in this Dec. week of final exams and job interviews. It also gives me fantastic sleep and happiness, despite life problems.