Borago officinalis seed

LATIN NAME: Borago officinalis

COMMON NAME: Borage

The borage opens its true-blue, star-shaped flowers over the bristly leaves, and the whole plant stands in the bright, rough tufts. The upright, bushy, bristly annual herb carries the oval, wrinkled, bristly, grey-green leaves and the nodding, true-blue, five-petalled, star-shaped flowers with the dark centres through the summer, one of the bright, fine sights of the herb garden, drawing the bees in the numbers. The young leaves and the flowers have a long record as the fine, cool garnish of the summer drinks, and the plant is a fine, generous presence of the herb garden. It is a plant of the open, sunny, deep, well-drained ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The borage is a bright subject of the plant science, and the blue stars keep showing up in the work on the bee plants. The way the nodding, true-blue, star-shaped flowers draw the bees in the numbers has been studied closely, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the bee plants, the oil-seed herbs and the members of the borage family. The bristly leaves and the bushy habit have also made it a fine study plant, and the borage is a regular subject of the work on the blue stars of the warm world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The borage is a fine, generous plant of the herb garden and the bee border. The nodding, true-blue, star-shaped flowers open through the summer, one of the fine sights of the herb garden, drawing the bees in the numbers, and the young leaves and the flowers come to the summer drinks and the salads of the old tables as the fine, cool garnish. The plant is one of the fine choices for the herb garden, the bee border and the study collection, and it has been written up in the culinary and the botanical papers for the blue stars and the generous ways. It is a fine, generous plant of the open, sunny, deep, well-drained garden.

Keep the young plants well spaced in the open bed, and the blue stars will come in the first summer.

To grow the borage from seed, scatter the small, dark seeds over the surface and let the light reach them, keep the tray in a bright, open spot and water gently, then set the young plants out in the open ground. The seedlings come through within a couple of weeks and grow on fast. With the sun and the deep, well-drained ground, the blue stars will open through the summer.

Borage Flowers