Common Names
Common Cornflower, Basketflower, Bachelor’s Button, Boutonniere Flower, Hurtsickle, Cyani Flower, Bluebottle, Garden Knapweed, Ragged Sailor, Witches’ Bells, Happy Skies, Haw Dods, Cornbottle, Blue Tops, Break-Your-Spectacles, Blue Sailor
About This Plant
Cornflower, with its vivid blue blooms, is a self-seeding, cool-weather annual from the Asteraceae family. It is native to Europe but has now naturalized in North America and Canada. It’s a hardy, frost-tolerant plant that can be sown very early in the Spring from USDA Zones 2 through 11. It reaches from one to three feet in height and spreads about one to two feet wide. It’s star-like blossoms are a brilliant blue that attracts birds and butterflies. Birds love Read More
Common Names
Bee Bush, Bee Bread, Bee Plant, Ox’s Tongue, Starflower, Burage, Bugloss, Bourrache, Cool Tankard, Langue de Boeuf, Tailwort
About This Plant
Borage can be a very important addition to the garden. It is a quickly growing, hardy, annual that will happily colonize a corner of the garden by self-seeding and reappear year after year. It is a medicinal herb and both the leaves and flowers are edible with a tasty and nutritious cucumber-like flavor. Its flowers produce copious amounts of nectar, attracting honey bees and other pollinators. It’s virtually pest free and is a beneficial companion plant to many of the common food plants you might have in the garden. Read More