Garden Pic Wednesday: Blue Borage!
Garden Pic of the Day: The delicate blue star-shaped flowers of Borage, an editable herb plant & garden flower. I've never grown it before, so it's a new addition this year. It has large seeds and sprouts readily when planted. The flowers & leaves are edible, but I wanted it for it's blue color and to attract bees. Honey bees, Bumble bees and all sorts of bees are supposed to love it! The leaves must, indeed, be delicious, since snails were devouring them on several plants when they first came up. I had to put down snail bait in the vicinity and spray the plants with Neem oil---but all survived to leaf again and bloom. They're about 24 inches tall and some stand straight up, while others tend to flop over. They need a little staking. Here's a Borage bloom in a vase in the house: A stem broke off while I was staking some this morning. You can see how pretty the star shape is. Borage is also called: Star Flower, Bee Bush, Bee Brea...