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• Alan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190

  August 2019

  Borage.

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• Gardenfairy19 Posts: 74

  August 2019

  Dam I thought that and didn’t google it.  That’ll teach me - but this lovely forum always come a up trumps.  Thanks 
  

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• Rubee Posts: 8,932

  August 2019

  Definitely Borage. 

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  August 2019

  I love it, got it growing all over here, the bees go mad for it.  All self seeded, must be in the compost I suppose. 

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• Joy* Posts: 571

  August 2019

  Luckily it's easy to remove seedlings. I've had crop after crop this year after planting 2 last year. I haven't space to allow them to do their own thing but keep an odd one to produce flowers for the bees and for Pimms but aim not to let it shed seeds. I grow them in succession  and will let the last one of summer seed itself. Believe me, they can be a pest unless kept under control. 

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• Alan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190

  August 2019

  There is a white-flowered form too, which I prefer.

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  August 2019 edited August 2019

  Alan Clark2 in Liverpool said:

  There is a white-flowered form too, which I prefer.

  Oooh thats beautiful. Never knew it came in white.
  Borago officinalis alba.....Starflower, Bee Bread, White Borage
  
  https://www.google.com/search?q=borago+officinalis+alba&rlz=1C1CHBF_enGB785GB785&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwil14HR6OTjAhVRTxUIHb2mDSMQ_AUIESgB&biw=1920&bih=937
  

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• PeggyTX Posts: 556

  August 2019 edited August 2019

  I just bought a large seed packet for the blue borage to scatter in early Spring down at our rural property in Central TX.  I think I'll keep it mostly along the chain-link fence to the pasture.  I love the blooms and color.  I, too, didn't know there was a white one. 
  

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