Monarda 'Jacob Cline' Fred Heutte and other sun-and-drought lovers

and other sun-and-drought lovers

when the earlier evergreen azaleas have already faded

casting medium shade and broadening with age into a rounded crown of twenty to forty feet

the branches layering horizontally

Monarda 'Jacob Cline' Fred Heutte and other sun-and-drought lovers'Jacob Cline' is the beebalm to beat for sheer red, a native perennial that throws big, deep crimson flowerheads on tall stems through the heart of summer. The whorled, tubular blooms sit atop four to five feet of square, mint family stems, and they pull in hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies with a persistence few perennials match; in one major trial 'Jacob Cline' was the single best beebalm for hummingbirds. The selection carries a Woodlanders