White Borage Herb Seeds – Edible Flowers, Medicinal & Culinary Herb

The Edible Starflower with Honey-Sweet Blooms & Bee-Magnet Beauty

White Borage (Borago officinalis ‘Alba’) is a captivating annual herb that produces gorgeous pure-white, star-shaped flowers with a surprisingly sweet, honey-like flavor. One of nature’s rare truly edible flowers, White Borage is prized for garnishing salads, chilled drinks, teas, and desserts — while its textured, cucumber-flavored leaves and bee-attracting blooms make it a standout companion plant in every kitchen garden.

Why Grow White Borage?

• Rare Edible Flowers: White star-shaped blooms are sweet and honey-flavored — beautiful floating in lemonade, iced tea, or cocktails, or frozen in ice cubes as elegant garnishes.
• Cucumber-Flavored Leaves: Young, tender leaves add a fresh cucumber note to salads and summer drinks.
• Excellent Companion Plant: Bee-attracting blooms improve pollination throughout the vegetable garden and orchard. Also deters certain pests.
• Medicinal & Tea Uses: Long used in herbal traditions for its adrenal-supporting and anti-inflammatory properties; flowers and leaves make a pleasant herbal tea.
• Liberal Self-Seeder: Drops seeds to produce new plants the following spring — plant once and enjoy for years.

Growing Guide

Direct sow after the last frost in fine, well-worked, moist soil in full sun to partial shade. Sow ⅛ inch deep, spacing plants 8–10 inches apart in rows 24 inches apart. Germination: 7–14 days at 70°F. Height: 24 inches. Annual. USDA Zones 3–9. Can also be started indoors in 2-inch cells — transplant carefully before roots become bound.

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