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borage - white borage

white borage / syn Borago officinalis 'Bianca'

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Buy borage - white borage white borage / syn Borago officinalis 'Bianca': Edible leaves and unusual white flowers


  • Position: full sun or light shade
  • Soil: fertile and moist
  • Rate of growth: fast
  • Hardiness: fully hardy

    The white flowers of this borage make a fresh change to the more traditional blue. The bees will still flock to the nectar-rich blooms, and if picked, the petals can be used to decorate ice bowls and dress soups and salads. The young leaves of this annual have a cucumber-like flavour and can be added to many recipes. They are often used in pasta dishes, while the flowers can be used in ice cubes, salads and even dipped in batter and deep fried. Plant them between your tomatoes to reduce attacks of hornworm. At the end of the year, add the plants to the compost heap as they will promote many beneficial minerals. Borage is an annual plant, but it will self-seed readily in good conditions. If you don’t want more plants, dead-head the flowers as soon as they fade.

  • Garden care:Form shallow drills at 30cm intervals in a well prepared bed, and sow thinly, just covering the seed before watering well. The seeds have a higher germination rate when temperatures are between 15 - 25C, so early sowings can be covered with a cloche. When big enough to handle, thin the seedlings to 25cm.

  • Sow: March - May

  • Flowering: June - September

  • Approximate quantity: 75 seeds.

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Luscious, beautiful, vigorous plants

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They germinated fast and without trouble. I planted the young plants en masse and they flowered and flowered. Next time I would put some support amongst them when planting so they could grow against it, but I will certainly buy them again.

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Vegetable suggestions for a shady veg. garden! Hello I have raised beds for veggies in my new garden. One bed gets sun most of the day whilst the other gets only a little sunshine .Could you please help with a list of fruit and veg to grow in each of them. Many thanks

Judith

Hello There, I'm afraid you will have trouble getting a bumper yield of any of the edible crops if the bed receives little sun, as most of them need full sun. Ones that tolerate some shade include radish, potato, borage, horseradish, blueberry, blackberry and tayberry - all the others will flourish in the sun. I hope this helps. Helen Plant Doctor

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