Herb
Blue Borage
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Blue borage singles out the iconic azure star flowers that define most culinary and ornamental plantings. Leaf flavour matches the species; the blue form is what Pimm’s cups and photographed salads expect. Flower colour is stable in common seed lines. Pick fully open stars in the cool morning; they bruise if stacked wet. Crystallise lightly for cakes or float raw on chilled soups. Blue is not a different taste class—just the visual grade everyone recognises as borage.
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Herbal illustrations fixed blue borage flowers as the plant’s emblem.
Victorian gardens prized blue borage for borders and drinks.
Seed packets specified blue borage as the ordinary colour strain.
Food media made blue borage flowers a summer garnish cliché—in a good way.