It’s always a good thing when a plant is edible and ornamental. Bergamot, also called bee balm, is mostly grown as a perennial border plant, but it also has been served for centuries as an herb. This ...

Bergamot is a native North American plant that is in the mint family which means it has a square stem. Depending on where it grows it can be an annual, biennial or a perennial. My experience in ...

It seems that our exceedingly dry early summer dramatically reduced the extent and density of flowers and the abundance of flower-visiting insects. I had found a small population of flowering wild ...