Borage Best Edible Flower

Borage Borago officinalis

This herb, native to Europe and Africa, has a slight cucumber flavor. The special blue star-shaped flowers are a great accoutrements to salads or cold drinks.

Easily grown summer annual that sometimes acts like a biennial, borage grows to about 2 feet and has hairy gray leaves and half inch star-shaped deep blue flowers. Borage is easily started from seeds planted in average soil and in full sun in the spring after any threat of frost is over. Harvest young leaves once plants are established, and flowers anytime they appear. Borage often reseeds itself.

Borage Borago officinalis