Flowers July and is pollinated by bees good for attracting wildlife into the garden. All the Bergamot wild plant above ground level can be used, leaves are used raw or cooked as flavouring in salads and cooked food meats and beans. Medicinal properties improves digestion, colds, headaches fevers bronchial complaints. Sow mid spring on in a cold frame plant out early summer, sow again in summer in areas where the winter is not too cold. Prefers full sun does not like the shade in a light dry alkaline soil. Bee and butterfly plant. Perennial Culinary herb
Monarda fistulosa