The first thing I went for was my new favorite plant: spotted horse mint, or monarda punctata.
It is so pretty and I haven't found it anywhere but on the listing for this annual sale. I located the sign and there were only two pots left! I grabbed them, found a staffer, and asked if there were more. They checked and said they were sorry but that was it.
I was sad but moved on to the gazillion other choices they had. Later, a few minutes before we finished perusing, I happened to walk by the table where the spotted horse-mint had been and there were, miraculously, three more! I snapped them up and added them to my cart.
We came home with a Subaru and an Element full of plants. Guess what we'll be doing this weekend?
4 comments:
I've never heard of the horse mint plant. It is pretty. Happy planting!
I hadn't either - Debi has it in the demo gardens and it is gorgeous, so I knew I wanted it. But it has been difficult to find locally until yesterday. I would have bought more if they'd had it!
Be sure to snag some seed heads, or encourage it to drop its seed in your bed before it dies back so you'll have more next year. Horse mint grows wild all over our island - one of my favorite "weeds" lol.
Thanks! All of these have seed heads so hopefully it will spread. How wonderful that it is all over the island - the bees just love it!
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