Borage

Description

(55 days) Open-pollinated. Gloria Seigars suggests it as a great border for the vegetable garden where the dense plants smother weeds and attract bees. Bears many small flowers that open blue, turn purple and then pink and make colorful additions to salads. Enjoy the cooling properties of very young leaves on a hot day. Used in cough syrups or frozen in ice cubes to lend cucumber flavor to cold drinks. A nourishing tea for nursing mothers. Seeds a good source of GLAs. Bushy 2–3′ annual likes sun, prefers moist well-drained soil, will self sow. Young plants are easy to move around. Survives light frosts. Especially attractive to pollinators.