Lemon Balm
Melissa officinalis
Size: Premium
24 inches high x 18 inches wide
Zone 3
Full Sun to Part Sun
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It’s been in cultivation for about 2000 years! This ’07 Herb of the Year provides delightful lemon scented foliage that can be used for flavoring teas, salads, ice cream and fruit cups! It is reported that crushed leaves rubbed on the skin will ward off skeeters! It blooms with white small flowers from May-August. Tolerant of most soils.
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Throughout this site, the following are used as guidelines for watering established plants:
These truly xeric plants can live with our 12 inches of natural annual precipitation and only need a winter watering during a multi-year drought, but they will thrive with a monthly watering. Overwatering will kill some of these. These plants are adapted to intermittent deep
watering with soil drying to a depth of a few inches between waterings. Watering frequency may be every couple of weeks during the active growing season and maybe only one winter watering for optimal care. These plants need regular watering somewhat like a bluegrass lawn so that
they never dry to depth in the root system during the active growing season, and need occasional winter watering to prevent root dessication and resultant plant
death. About sizes of our plants:
Sizes indicated with a # are roughly the equivalent in gallonage; so a #2 is about a 2 gallon pot size; b&b stands for balled and burlapped.