{"product_id":"mountain-coyote-mint-seeds","title":"Mountain Coyote Mint Seeds (Monardella odoratissima)","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe Great Central Plain of California…was one smooth, continuous bed of honey-bloom, so marvelously rich that, in walking from one end of it to the other, a distance of more than 400 miles, your foot would press about a hundred flowers at every step. Mints, gilias, nemophilas, castilleias, and innumerable composite were so crowded together that, had ninety-nine percent of them been taken away, the plain would still have seemed…extravagantly flowery.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e- John Muir, The Bee Pastures of California (1882)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eMountain coyote mint is a plant of rocky open ground, a summer-blooming wildflower that smells like the essence of a dryland sunset, a plant of fragrant landscapes occurring alongside \u003cem\u003eMadias\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHemizonias\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSalvias\u003c\/em\u003e – \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003evaporizing, volatile, resinous plants that perfume wind currents arising up along the Pacific Coast, sweeping inward and over the Sierra Nevada into the Great Basin. It’s in the name…\u003cem\u003eodoratissma\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eThe most fragrant\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eThis is a bee balm; the West’s answer to the eastern genus \u003cem\u003eMonarda\u003c\/em\u003e, a group of exceptional bee plants. Like its eastern kin, it draws multitudes: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnthidium mormonum\u003c\/em\u003e (the wool-collecting Mormon bee!), \u003cem\u003eOsmia brevis\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOsmia densa\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOsmia granulosa,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eOsmia paradisica\u003c\/em\u003e (the mason bee of paradise!), \u003cem\u003eOsmia penstemonis\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTrachusa timberlakei\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBombus fervidus \u003c\/em\u003e(the fiery and ardent bumble bee!), \u003cem\u003eBombus insularis\u003c\/em\u003e (the isolationist and detached bumble bee!). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eAlso there are the butterflies – the many coppers and blues, the hummingbirds as well of course. Still, look more closely. Mountain coyote mint is a lush landscape to numerous tiny thrips, hunted by their larger predators: the lady beetles, lacewings, and pirate bugs. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eThis is a low-growing, long-lived perennial – and sprawling – never ascending skyward much more than about 12-inches. The pale lavender-purple flowers are ignored by browsing deer, who find the minty taste unpalatable. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003ePlant mountain coyote mint in the hardest places. Among the rocks where soil moisture is brief and scarce. In sunbaked front yards, and along the sides of desolate gravel roads. It is native across most of the land from Southern inland British Columbia to Baja, touching the coast in central California and the western edge of the Rockies. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eMountain coyote mint seems to germinate best when the seeds are cold stratified, exposed to about 90-days of cool, wet conditions, then surface sown outdoors where germination tends to occur in the spring over about a month, under prolonged temperatures in the 60-70 degrees Fahrenheit range. With time, tiny seedlings mature into semi-woody clumps that can be divided to create more plants, or propagated from cuttings that root semi-easily when treated with rooting hormone and damp, shaded conditions. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e50+ seeds (0.05 grams)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Northwest Meadowscapes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50561662451958,"sku":null,"price":9.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1274\/1723\/files\/mountain-coyote-mint-seeds-monardella-odoratissima-6060398.jpg?v=1782878048","url":"https:\/\/northwestmeadowscapes.com\/products\/mountain-coyote-mint-seeds","provider":"Northwest Meadowscapes","version":"1.0","type":"link"}