top of page

gardeners have the best dirt

Grow Vibrant Blue Borage This Year And Eat The Flowers

Text: edible flower series: borage and Angie's Recipe Garden logo
Vibrant blue borage attracts beneficial bugs like pollinators to your garden

Angie's Top 4 Reasons To Grow Borage


1. Borage Adds A Pop Of Color


Whether you choose to eat vibrant blue borage or not, growing it adds a beautiful blue color to your mostly green garden. I enjoy placing the edible flowers on top of my color-changing lemonade. I love looking at my mostly green garden and seeing my blue borage standing out.


2. You Can Eat Vibrant Blue Borage


Borage contains vitamins such as A & C and minerals iron & niacin. Not to mention, both the leaves & the flowers are edible. I'd recommend eating the young leaves as they will be less "hairy" than the larger more mature leaves. The taste of borage is very mild and tastes like a mild cucumber.


3. Attract Pollinators To Your Garden


Have you ever had a zucchini flower, but never produced a fruit? The cause may be because the flower not getting pollinated. You could hand pollinate, but I like to go the route of planting flowers. The centers of the borage flower provide a perfect landing spot for butterflies, bees, and even hummingbirds.


4. Borage Sows Itself


When your vibrant blue borage is finished blooming, you will see dried seed pods. If you don't want a large amount of borage next season, you will want to remove the dead dried seeds. This year, I left the majority of the dead borage - I cut it and spread it around my plot. I hope that next season I'll have borage all over my garden.


Until the next post in this series, check out all my gardening posts.


Blue borage grows in the garden

Did You Miss An Edible Flower Post? Here's All The Posts:


Affiliate Disclosure: some of the info in this blog may contain affiliate links. If you purchase something through one of those links, your cost remains the same, but I receive a small commission. The commission I make on the links helps keep this blog running ad-free. I appreciate the support!

Did you find this interesting or useful? You may have noticed Angie's Recipe Garden is ad-free and easier to navigate than most. That’s because I want to provide a better experience when researching gardening or recipes! Please support my site by donating. See my donation page for more information.

bottom of page