Form: the common Borage is a hardy annual plant
Seasonality: annual
Size: 1 - 3 feet
Leaves: leaves alternate, large, wrinkled, deep gray green, oval and pointed, 3 inches long or more, and about 1 1/2 inch broad, the lower ones stalked, with stiff, one celled hairs on the upper surfaces and on the veins below, the margins entire, but wavy
Stems: are branched hollow and succulent

Borage

Flowers: the flowers, which terminate the cells, are bright blue and star-shaped, distinguished from those of every plant in this order by their prominent black anthers, which form a cone in the canter and have been described as their beauty spot
Fruit: brown nutlets
Range/Origin: coming originally from Aleppo but now naturalized in most parts of Europe
Hardiness: all zones

LANDSCAPE VALUE:

• Good no water area ground cover
• See article below

CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Exposure: full sun
• Water: requires little water, but watering enhances leaf growth for harvesting
• Soil: ordinary soil
• Propagation: borage will seed itself freely and comes up year after year in the same place. Seeds may also be sown in the autumn. Those sown then will flower in May, whereas those sown in the spring will not flower till June.
• Maintenance: low

NOTES: Article on Borage

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This page compiled for the Moody Demonstration Garden by D. Post 3 May 2004
. References: Desert Tropicals Free Information; http://www.desert-tropicals.com/
Sunset Western Garden Book; Sunset Books Inc.; Menlo Park, CA 94025, 6th ed.

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