Borage 'Blue and White Mix' Seeds Seeds Piccolo Seeds
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Borage 'Blue and White Mix' Seeds

Blue and white edible flowers for drinks, salads and cakes

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Key benefits

  • Blue and white edible flowers for drinks, salads and cakes
  • Young leaves taste faintly of cucumber
  • Bees work the flowers all day
  • Grows about 60 cm tall and fits a 30 cm pot
  • Packet of about 50 seeds with growing instructions

Borage is about the easiest edible flower you can sow, and this mix gives you the classic sky-blue stars alongside a white-flowered form. Borago officinalis makes a bushy, bristly plant with nodding clusters of five-pointed flowers and young leaves that taste faintly of cucumber. Float the flowers in a jug of Pimm's or lemonade, freeze them in ice cubes or scatter them over salads and cakes. Bees work the flowers all day, which makes borage a good neighbour for tomatoes, strawberries and cucumbers.

Sowing and growing

  • Sow outdoors where it is to flower from April to June, or start in pots under cover in March.
  • Sow 2 to 3 cm deep and thin seedlings to about 25 cm apart.
  • Germination takes 7 to 15 days.
  • Full sun or light shade, in well-drained soil. Skip the fertiliser: rich soil gives leaves at the expense of flowers.
  • Grows to about 60 cm tall and 30 cm wide, and fits a 30 cm pot.
  • Flowers June to September. Pick flowers just as they open, in the cool of the morning, and deadhead to keep them coming.
  • Hardy annual that self-seeds freely, so one sowing often returns year after year.

What you receive: a packet of about 50 seeds from Piccolo Seeds, with growing instructions on the back.

Browse our full range of flower, herb and vegetable seeds, or pair borage with more plants for pollinators and summer-flowering plants.

How to use
  1. Sow outdoors where it is to flower from April to June, or in pots under cover in March.
  2. Sow 2 to 3 cm deep and thin seedlings to about 25 cm apart.
  3. Grow in full sun or light shade in well-drained soil, without fertiliser.
  4. Pick flowers just as they open and deadhead to keep them coming.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Are borage flowers edible?

Yes. The flowers have a mild, cucumber-like taste and are used to decorate drinks, salads and desserts, fresh or candied. Pull each flower gently out of its hairy green sepals before use. Young leaves can also be eaten, though older ones turn coarse and bristly.

When should I sow borage seeds?

Sow outdoors from April to June, straight into the spot where it will flower, as borage grows fast and does not need starting indoors. For earlier flowers, sow in pots under cover in March and plant out in spring.

Will borage come back every year?

Borage is an annual, so each plant lives for one season, but it drops plenty of seed and seedlings usually appear the following spring. Deadhead the flowers as they fade if you want to limit how far it spreads.

What is your returns policy?

Changed your mind? You can return pots, gifts, accessories and other non-plant items. Email hello@growtropicals.com with your order number within 14 days of delivery, then send the item back within 14 days of telling us. You pay the return postage.

Items must come back unused and in their original condition. If an item has been used, we may reduce your refund by the value it has lost, and for used items this can be the full price.

Live plants cannot be returned because you have changed your mind, but they are covered by our Live Arrival Guarantee.

If something arrives damaged, faulty or wrong, email us with your order number and photos and we will put it right at no cost to you. Full details are in our returns policy.

When will my order arrive and how much is shipping?

Choose your delivery speed at checkout. Express orders placed before 1pm are dispatched the same day, otherwise the next working day. Standard orders are dispatched within 2 to 3 working days and Economy orders within 4 to 5 working days. Once dispatched, every order travels by 24 hour tracked courier.

Delivery is free on orders over £60 with Economy, over £100 with Standard and over £150 with Express. Below that, the charge depends on your basket total and is always shown at checkout before you pay. The full price list is in our shipping policy.

Orders without plants are dispatched Monday to Friday. If your order also includes plants, it goes out Monday to Thursday so the plants are not left in the courier network over the weekend. Delivery can take longer at busy times such as Black Friday and Christmas.

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