.....an evolving healing place where lessons from plants come most every day. This is Bee Balm. The bee's love it. They never bother you when it is in bloom because they are so happy that it is there. From the mint family it is also called oswego tea. I know you can make a mild tea of the leaves, but I havent yet. I am studying each plant a little at a time both for culinary and medicinal use. Im not there yet- but it is blooming now and I thought I would share it's picture. I have 2 colors of cultivated, and one of wild- this is a cultivated kind- such a pretty pink. It is about 3 to 3 1/2 feet tall. The wild is about 5' tall. The Hummingbirds seem to prefer the wild. I am fighting the drought to keep my garden alive. I had an interesting encounter with a wasp the other day. He landed on my forearm, and tiltel his little triangle head to peer at me. He raised his 2 front legs and did some sort of sign language-looking straight at me- "thank you for watering", he seemed to say. Then off he flew, he looked like a little alien....
