Recent Examples on the WebSquash bugs tend to avoid plants like catnip, marigolds, nasturtiums, and bee balm.—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 June 2024 Add plants that support all stages of the pollinators’ lifecycle, such as various types of milkweed, coneflowers, bee balm, and cosmos to feed pollinators from summer through fall.—Peter Gorman, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2024 Plant flowers nearby that attract pollinators, such as sunflowers, bee balm, goldenrod, etc.—Nadia Hassani, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 May 2024 Other native plant candidates for winter sowing, Schaller said, include bee balm, coneflower, goldenrod, blazing star, phlox and lobelia.—Susan Degrane, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024 Tea Garden plants like aromatic lemon verbena, bee balm, bronze fennel, chamomile, or mint are perfect for growing your own herbal tea.—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2024 Right now above my coneflowers, bee balm, and black-eyed Susans, a parade of bees, butterflies, and wasps are buzzing and flying among the flower heads.—Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 25 July 2023 Featuring native plantings, the garden includes eastern redbuds, winterberry holly, hibiscus, little blue stem, arrowwood, coreopsis tickseed, cone flower and bee balm.—John Benson, cleveland, 24 July 2023 Bees are particularly attracted to bee balm, echinacea, snapdragon, and hostas, as well as a number of other wildflowers like California poppies and evening primrose.—Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 28 July 2023
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