Borage – Borago officianalis
Lovely star-shaped blue blooms cover these small plants that reach only about two feet tall. Borage is easy to grow from seeds, and quick to bloom flowers make this a great quick addition to your garden. Fresh flowers can be used as a garnish or tossed into salads, cold drinks, or teas. Candied flowers are beautiful decorations for cakes and other desserts. Young borage leaves can be cooked like spinach and taste like cucumber. Borage is also known as bee's bread because honey bees love the nectar.Borage – Borago officianalis
Borage Seeds
100 Count Borage Herb Seed Pack - an Annual Flowering Plant Also Known as starflower.
Borage Herb Seeds, 125 Heirloom Seeds Per Packet, Non Gmo Seeds, (Isla's Garden Seeds), Botanical Name: Borago officinalis, 80% Germination Rates
Borage is an easy, fast-growing annual herb with vivid blue flowers and the flavor and scent of cucumbers. While it is considered an herb, it's often grown as a flower in vegetable gardens where it is considered a good companion plant for tomatoes, squash, and strawberries. After planting your borage in early spring, its blooms will emerge in June and July, hanging in downward facing clusters. Both the flowers and the leaves of the plant are edible, with a unique flavor similar to a cucumber. The plant is hairy all over its stems and leaves. The flowers are star-like, with five, narrow, triangular-pointed petals. Borage is relatively unfussy when it comes to growing conditions. You can eat the leaves, raw or cooked, and the flowers, raw, as a garnish or in drinks. Borage can bloom from late spring through summer and will reach maturity in about eight weeks, at which point you can harvest the leaves and flowers as need.
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