Borage

Add beauty, flavour, and pollinator power to your garden with the Borage herb plant. This fast-growing annual is loved for its striking star-shaped blue flowers, soft hairy foliage, and its ability to attract bees and other beneficial insects throughout the growing season.

Borage is a versatile culinary herb, with young leaves offering a mild cucumber-like flavour that can be enjoyed in salads, soups, and drinks. Its vibrant edible flowers make a stunning garnish for desserts, cocktails, and summer dishes, adding both colour and a subtle fresh taste.

Easy to grow in borders, vegetable gardens, wildlife areas, and containers, Borage thrives in full sun and well-drained soil. It readily self-seeds, providing a reliable display year after year in favourable conditions, while also helping to support biodiversity in your garden.

Features:

• Produces beautiful edible star-shaped blue flowers
• Young leaves have a refreshing cucumber-like flavour
• Excellent for salads, drinks, and garnishes
• Highly attractive to bees and other pollinators
• Ideal for borders, herb gardens, and containers
• Easy-to-grow annual herb
• Thrives in full sun and well-drained soil

Whether you're growing herbs for the kitchen, creating a pollinator-friendly garden, or simply looking for a stunning ornamental plant, Borage is a rewarding and versatile addition to any outdoor space.

• Latin Name: Borago officinalis

  Type: Annual

  Soil Type: Well-drained

  Where should I plant this variety? Full sun

  How tall does it grow? Approx 30-60cm

  How much space does it need? Approx 60cm

   Top care tips: Cut back regularly to keep the plant from going woody.

   
  

  Delivery Information

• Sage is a kitchen garden classic, with a delicious musky flavour that is best known as a staple of a great Sunday Roast!

  It is evergreen and quite architectural. It looks great through the winter months and will take the worst that the winter can throw at it. We think that the grey foliage looks spectacular on a frosty morning.

   

  It will struggle in waterlogged conditions so please ensure that this variety is in free draining conditions.

• Delivery options explained

   

  Pre-order delivery option

  From January to March, customers are able to pre-order herbs for delivery later in spring, to ensure that you receive the unusual varieties that you desire. We begin dispatch of pre-orders from late March, once all items in your order are available for dispatch in one delivery, as some varieties will be available a little later in the year than others. You will receive notification when this dispatch takes place along with tracking information but if you would like an estimated delivery date after placing your pre-order, please do not hesitate to contact us.

  Order Now delivery option

  From late March to autumn, herbs will be available for immediate dispatch subject to their availability. We dispatch our fresh potted herbs Monday-Wednesday each week to avoid postal delays over the weekend. We aim to dispatch all fresh herb orders in less than seven days, i.e. an order placed Thursday-Sunday would likely be dispatched the following Monday/Tuesday. Orders placed Monday-Tuesday we would aim to dispatch by the Wednesday of that week. We do not dispatch on bank holidays.

  If you have a specific dispatch date that you would like us to aim towards, please do not hesitate to let us know. We can't guarantee a particular date but will strive to do our best for you.

  Dispatch information

  All orders are dispatched via a next day courier, ensuring that your herbs reach you promptly and in good health. For customers in the Highlands, Channel Islands and Northern Ireland this is a 48-hour delivery service.

  Please note that we do not offer a collection service. Our site is not suitable to receive visitors and this is a rule that we have to apply universally out of respect to our neighbours and family.

   

  Packaging

  
  We aim to reuse packaging as much as possible. Your herbs will be delivered in taupe recyclable pots. We are moving over to using plastic blister cell packaging which contains at least 90% recycled content and is itself 100% recyclable. These things are important to you and are important to us.
  
  

  Customer satisfaction

  Occasionally due to circumstances beyond our control, problems can arise. If you are not satisfied in the condition of your plants upon reaching you, please contact us as soon as possible providing pictures so that we can deal with your enquiry and feedback to our courier service. We will endeavour to ensure a resolution is reached that leaves you satisfied.