Borage
Borraja · Bourrache
🧩 Role in the garden
- Family
- Boraginaceae
- Height
- medium (40–100 cm)
- Shape
- upright
- Roots
- medium depth · taproot
- Sun
- tolerates some shade
- Season
- cool season
- Grows in
- summer or winter beds
Jobs in the bed
- Brings pollinatorsFlowers that feed bees and butterflies. Useful next to crops that need pollinating.
Rotation
Do not return Boraginaceae to the same spot for 3–4 years. Same family:
✿ Benefit
Powerful bee/pollinator magnet; pollinator flowers have been shown to raise strawberry yield & quality
Large plant, self-seeds freely
✓ Place near
✗ Keep apart
None listed.