Monarda Bee Balm Leading Lady Plum

Add rich color to your garden with Leading Lady Plum Beebalm, a compact pollinator favorite featuring magenta-purple flowers with hot pink overtones from early to mid-summer. This low-growing selection forms a dense, mounded habit perfect for border fronts and edging, with strong, well-branched stems ideal for cutting. The fragrant dark green foliage provides excellent powdery mildew resistance, ensuring reliable performance throughout the season. Deer-resistant and adaptable to both full sun and partial shade, this variety attracts bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds while working beautifully in mass plantings, containers, and naturalized woodland settings.

Plant Details:

• Botanical Name: Monarda 'Leading Lady Plum'
• Hardiness Zone: 4
• Plant Height: 10 inches
• Flower Height: 14 inches
• Spacing: 24 inches
• Sun Exposure: Full sun to partial shade
• Bloom Time: Early to mid-summer
• Flower Color: Plum purple with hot pink overtones
• Foliage: Fragrant, dark green, pointed leaves
• Habit: Dense, compact, mounded
• Uses: Mass planting, border fronts, naturalizing, woodland gardens, containers, cut flowers
• Plant Type: Perennial