[hubballi]

I have grown this herb from seed and I just love it. It's an absolute joy to see the amazing blue star shaped flowers with bees hovering around. I am amazed that it isn't more popular than it is as it is just so stunning. You can even use the flowers in salad.

Anyone else have this ?






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[arugula]

I was just having a wander round our local community garden earlier this morning when I spotted some and thought it is something I really should have in my own garden.

[willowish]

borage is lovely.... the flowers look pretty frozen in ice cubes...then dropped into pimms! 
but it does self seed hellishly, you'll be pulling it up forevermore...

[mumofstig]

I was going to buy seeds so that I'd have it in the garden............but this year i've found it self seeded all over the allotments 

Lovely, but as already said you'll soon have it everywhere. The seed leaves are fairly easy to recognise and it does pull up easily when young, just be aware of what could happen

[Trillium]

I let it self seed in my veg garden and simply pull out ones that are in the way. Bees love it, it looks after itself, and the flowers are actually what are used to make sugared violet flowers since they're similar and borage produces far more flowers.

[sunshineband]

Careful when you come to pull it out at the end --- awful prickly 

[Carollan]

Yes,I grew it as a companion plant for the strawberries this year,but it was a disaster!

The strawberries flowered at least a month earlier than the borage so the flurry of bees was no use,and then the borage grew and grew like the magic beans in Jack and the Beanstalk and threatened  a demolition job on the netting I had over the strawberries,which I thought was quite tall for a change.

Maybe I`ll choose another companion plant next year! 

[sunshineband]

Horses for courses 


Like my calendula that has swamped the onions this year 

[digalotty]

just like carollan i have one in my strawberry bed ,  i carefully dug it out last year and it still come back

[mumofstig]

Borage is an annual............so more seed germinated, rather the same plant grew back.

Just hoe them off as soon as you see the prickly leaves. They are easy to identify IMO