Without bees pollinating their flowers, cucumbers would not produce the long, juicy fruits we depend on in summer for whipping up delicious and cooling salads. Enter borage, a star of a companion ...

You would be forgiven if you mistook the beautifully blue, star-shaped flowers and rough, hairy stems and leaves of Borago officinalis for a perennial garden stalwart. Borage is, however, a robust ...

You've probably heard gardeners discuss companion planting and how it benefits your garden. But have you heard someone talk about adding borage (Borago officinalis) as a companion plant for better ...

Companion planting is based on the idea that, like people, some plants do better with good neighbors. For tomatoes, strawberries and squash, one of the most popular of companion plants is borage ...

Borage seed oil, sometimes called starflower oil for its herb’s star-shaped flowers, is (like evening primrose oil) one of the few rich plant sources of the essential fatty acid gamma-linolenic acid, ...

Nina asks: My borage plant seems to be rotting from the roots. Is this due to too much water, another disease, or insects? This looks like a case of the wrong plant in the wrong place. We have had a ...