Lemon Balm Plant – 1 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-8b (Zone 9 with afternoon shade)  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Herbaceous Perennial

Flower Color:  White to Soft Yellow

Flower Size: Small

Flowering Period:  Early Summer to Late Summer

Flower Type:  Single

Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color:  Green

Fragrant Foliage:  Yes!

Berries:  No

Berry Color:  No

Attracts:  Beneficial Pollinators, Sensory Appeal

Resistances:  Deer, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Insect, Rabbit

Lemon Balm is an attractive perennial herb with you guessed it…lemon scented and flavored edible leaves that can be added to salads, soups, sauces or vegetables and to flavor teas. Ornamentally, its wrinkled, ovate, medium green leaves on mounding plants make it a fine textural addition to herb gardens and other garden beds. It tends to like life on the cool side so those of you in the hot climates of Zones 8 and 9 should provide it with some afternoon shade. Throughout the summer, tiny, two-lipped white flowers appear that the honeybees and other beneficial pollinators love. The dried leaves may be added to sachets and potpourri and used in herbal medicine for a variety of purposes. 

“Melissa” in the scientific name of this plant means “honeybee,” which is also the name of a Cretan princess who first discovered how to obtain honey.

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